Delegated Authority Oversight Manager

🕒 March 3

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PoloWorks

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201 - 500 employees

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

Insurance • Finance • B2B

PoloWorks is a comprehensive partner for (re)insurers and brokers, dedicated to simplifying the complexities of the insurance lifecycle. With a focus on building strong, collaborative relationships with clients, PoloWorks offers tailored solutions and scalable services designed to meet the ambitions of the insurance market. Operating from its centers in Cheltenham and London, PoloWorks provides business advisory and outsourced services, syndicate management, and tech-enabled insurance management services, ensuring dependable support throughout all stages of insurance operations.

📋 Description

• Lead the end-to-end oversight of delegated authority arrangements, including binders, lineslips, master policies, consortia and Delegated Claims Administrators (DCAs), ensuring effective governance, control, and regulatory compliance. • Own and manage the due diligence, onboarding, approval, renewal, and termination processes for all delegated authority and DCA arrangements, ensuring adherence to Agency’s policies and procedures, and industry best practice. • Oversee the onboarding and ongoing governance of Syndicate Service Companies. • Ensuring the Delegated Authority portfolio and associated Syndicates operate to Lloyd’s and other Regulatory prescribed requirements, including the Delegated Code of Practice, the Intermediaries Byelaws and the Principles for doing business. • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including Underwriting, Claims, Compliance, Finance, Actuarial, Operations, Syndicates, Lloyd’s, Coverholders, DCAs and brokers, to support business objectives and effective oversight. • Monitor, challenge, and escalate Key Performance Indicators and Service Level Agreement’s in accordance with the relevant Statements of Work between Polo Commercial Insurance Services, Syndicates and Polo Managing Agency. • Ensuring all relevant processes and procedure documents are up to date, approved annually by the Board (or Committee as necessary) and remain compliant with Lloyd’s Principles of Doing Business and Minimum Standards and/or other regulatory requirements. • Providing guidance and support for delegated authority and customer issues, responding to queries from Lloyd’s, Coverholders, Brokers, Syndicate(s), and other stakeholders. • Managing the oversight of customer outcomes and customer commitments for Delegated Authorities, Claims, Complaints and Conduct risk with appropriate support from the Polo Works Claims and Compliance and PMA/Syndicate Conduct risk teams. • Providing the management and oversight of regular reporting, including regulatory returns, relating to service standards, binder performance, claims DCA performance, and customer outcomes/commitment KPIs. • Oversight of reporting to the Delegated Authority Oversight Group (DAOG) and Syndicate Monitoring Committee (SMC), with escalation to the Board and other committees where required. • Manage Coverholder and DCA audits, ensuring findings are appropriately reported, actions agreed, and remediation tracked to completion.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in the Lloyd’s market in a delegated underwriting management role • Good understanding of the regulations around appointed representatives • Understanding of Lloyd’s Principles for Doing Business • Some understanding of exposure management beneficial • Good knowledge of underwriting systems, bordereaux management systems and underwriting management information desirable • Good level of Windows IT skills essential • Self-motivated and proactive • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong interpersonal skills • Ability to adapt to changing priorities and manage multiple deadlines • Ability to work collaboratively with others and establish strong relationships both internally and externally

🏖️ Benefits

• As well as a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a minimum 24 days of annual leave (with the option to buy more), you will also get an excellent benefits package, including flexible, hybrid working, private health insurance, life assurance, income protection, enhanced pension contributions, and occupational maternity and paternity pay. • Access to company volunteering days • Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing scheme • Employee assistance programme with retail discounts and savings • Generous employee referral scheme • Regular sports and social events • Free Cheltenham bus travel