The Senior Underwriting Performance Analyst plays a critical role in overseeing and managing underwriting performance across Asta’s client portfolio.
Reporting to the Underwriting Performance Manager and working collaboratively within the Underwriting Performance Team, this individual provides high-quality analytical insights, supports business planning processes, and contributes to regulatory reporting.
These activities help ensure that all clients comply with a robust underwriting management framework.
Key Responsibilities
- The role involves supporting the Underwriting Performance Manager by providing analytical insights, monitoring the performance of Ast Clients against key performance indicators, coordinating planning submissions, and facilitating interactions with clients and Lloyd’s.
- Perform comprehensive analyses of underwriting performance for Asta’s managed clients, evaluating variances from planned results and identifying significant trends, potential risks, and opportunities.
- Act as a day‑to‑day point of contact for operational and analytical requests from Asta clients and Lloyd's within the portfolios. Support relationship management with Lloyd’s by preparing materials, tracking queries, and providing background analysis ahead of meetings.
- Support the coordination and delivery of the Lloyd’s business planning process across a defined portfolio of syndicates. Validate submissions, and ensure completeness, accuracy, and alignment with Lloyd’s requirements. Assist in drafting narrative components, performance summaries, and data explanations for planning submissions.
- Prepare monitoring packs, dashboards, and data insights for portfolio oversight. Collaborate with MI & Analytics to improve reporting quality, templates, and automation.
- Assist in producing regulatory underwriting returns for Lloyd’s, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and timely submission. Liaise with clients to gather inputs, address queries, and ensure compliance with reporting standards.
- Participate in relevant meetings for Asta and managed clients within a portfolio, assuming responsibilities for the Underwriting Performance Manager when necessary.
- Contribute analytical expertise to internal projects, working groups, and requests relating to underwriting performance or Lloyd’s market changes.
- Validate and oversee analysts and assistants as needed. Share best practices and support technical skill development across the team.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- 3+ years’ experience in Insurance, ideally working in underwriting, actuarial, finance, operations or related fields.
- A understanding of how a Lloyd’s syndicate operates within the market and as part of a managing agency and good commercial knowledge of the Lloyd’s market.
- IT literate; Excel skills a requisite, with a natural ability to pick up new systems quickly.
Job Benefits
At Asta, you’ll enjoy a market-leading benefits package that puts your wellbeing, career development and financial future first. We combine flexible working, strong family-friendly policies and exceptional rewards to create a supportive, inclusive and high-performing workplace.
Our benefits include:
Work-life balance you can rely on
- 35-hour working week with hybrid and flexible working
- Generous holiday allowance that increases with service
Your health & wellbeing covered
- Private medical insurance with virtual GP access
- Annual health screening, dental cover and eye care
- Subsidised gym or sports club membership
Support for you and your family
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay
Rewarding your contribution
- Highly competitive pension with up to 13% employer contribution
- Life assurance and income protection
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme
- Interest-free season ticket loan and salary sacrifice schemes
About Asta
We are a specialist professional services and technology firm, working in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses.
We help our clients to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform and grow. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.
Our global team of more than 8,000 professionals operate across ten countries, including the UK & the U.S. Over the past ten years Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 20-fold, investing heavily in research & development, innovation & automation, colleague development, and client service. Today the group serves more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.
