Reinsurance Property Treaty Underwriter

**About Swiss Re**

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

**About the role**:
We are seeking a highly motivated and results-oriented underwriter to join our underwriting team in Paris.

Your main area of responsibility will be underwriting profitable property treaty business in the France, Belgium and Luxembourg market unit.

Your main responsibilities:

- You evaluate risks in accordance with the company's guidelines and make underwriting decisions within your authority level for assigned treaties.
- You maintain a balanced portfolio which we intend to grow further with your contribution.
- You play a meaningful role in meetings and negotiations with clients/brokers, and you build relationships with your clients' property underwriters and organize exchanges to develop business together and to transfer knowledge.
- You will nurture our transaction pipeline together with the client managers of your accounts - and convert opportunities into deals that benefit both us and our clients
- You will contribute to develop innovative reinsurance solutions, collaborating with internal specialists in this area.
- You will help to maintain and further develop a sustainable portfolio and will enforces a portfolio steering culture by contributing to efficiently write profitable business in France and Belgium.

**About the team**:
Who are we? Our desk is spread over two locations in Paris and Zurich forming an exciting international underwriting team. You will join a collaborative environment which promotes personal and professional development. The clients we serve are insurance companies domiciled in western and southern Europe.

To distinguish ourselves from the competition, we provide services to our clients, and we share our knowledge with them. We seek to help our clients to grow and to flourish with them, by closing the protection gap, co-creating new products as well as helping them with capital and earnings volatility management.

Deals we write in our desk have a strong client centric dimension. As a result, you will collaborate with client managers, other lines of business and facultative underwriting and structured reinsurance within Swiss Re. - Degree educated or equivalent, preferably with a quantitative, scientific or economic focus.

**About you**:

- You have a good understanding of treaty reinsurance, most importantly in the areas of structuring, pricing and evaluating terms and conditions.
- You believe in continuous learning and appreciate development and change as meaningful ingredients to your work.
- You have demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills and are a pragmatic problem solver. You are able to work under tight time constraints and constant changing boundary conditions.
- It is vital that you have an intrinsic motivation and like to take ownership. As an empowered individual, you are dedicated and always use your initiative.
- You are creative, able to adapt your communication to the required level, and you thrive in collaborations with colleagues and clients.
- Partner management both internally and externally is fundamental to making this role a success
- Your French and English are fluent, additional languages like German are a plus. You have a real passion for interacting with colleagues from many different nationalities.

Also advantageous- Work experience in a quantitative field and/or consulting background.- Actuarial or cat modeling background.