Jobs at Ascot Group

Supports Portfolio Solutions underwriting strategy, portfolio balance, distribution growth, program due diligence, agreement management, audits, referrals, and performance analysis. The role collaborates with underwriting, legal, IT, claims, actuarial, and other teams to establish effective operating platforms, maintain client service standards, and achieve profitability objectives. Requires strong property insurance underwriting and portfolio management expertise, financial and actuarial understanding, analytical capabilities, and business travel availability.

Leads the U.S. Claims organization’s strategy, operations, transformation, TPA governance, alternative risk claims, quality assurance, and operational excellence. Develops operating models, automation initiatives, performance metrics, and governance frameworks while overseeing programs, captives, vendors, and external claims partners. Advises the Chief Claims Officer, drives cross-functional execution, manages organizational change, and develops high-performing teams to improve claims quality, customer outcomes, profitability, and efficiency.

Support the full surety account lifecycle by processing new business, renewals, endorsements, cancellations, and bond issuance. Perform accurate data entry, reconcile billing/premiums/commissions, respond to agents/clients, maintain agency records, escalate system issues, and assist underwriting and accounting teams. Ensure documentation quality, transaction accuracy, and strong customer service while supporting special projects.

Lead and manage Financial Institutions claims and a small team, overseeing investigations, analysis, coverage determinations, reserving, litigation strategy, and vendor/counsel management. Collaborate with underwriting, brokers, insureds, and internal partners, produce reports on exposure and loss development, maintain claims files, monitor market and legal trends, obtain adjuster licenses, travel for mediations/trials/conferences, and contribute to Financial Lines claims strategy and marketing.

Manage a caseload of Management Liability claims (Public and Private D&O, EPL, Fiduciary), investigate and evaluate exposures, present loss/reserve reports, draft coverage correspondence, appoint/manage counsel, collaborate with underwriting and brokers, monitor legal/market trends, obtain adjuster licenses, and travel for mediations, trials, and industry events.

Provide commercial legal support to U.S. insurance and reinsurance businesses. Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial and reinsurance agreements, advise on claims and coverage issues, manage outside counsel, support finance and strategic transactions, and partner with business stakeholders across underwriting, programs, and operations.

Leads specialty exposure management for non-natural catastrophe and liability portfolios across insurance lines. Oversees analysts performing pre- and post-bind modeling, portfolio production, reporting, regulatory submissions, data quality, and model validation. Partners with underwriting teams to optimize risk-adjusted capacity deployment, presents portfolio insights to senior stakeholders, manages outsourcing relationships, and advances exposure management tools, workflows, AI, automation, and analytics capabilities. Requires extensive insurance or reinsurance catastrophe modeling experience and strong leadership, risk governance, SQL, and analytical skills.

Lead enterprise data governance by partnering with IT, Data Owners, Data Stewards, and business stakeholders. Define and maintain Critical Data Elements, improve data quality, establish ownership and accountability, manage data quality monitoring, support reference data management, and facilitate issue resolution. The role also requires translating business objectives into data specifications and supporting governance and business transformation initiatives across a specialty insurance organization.

The Data Engineer will analyze, develop, implement, test, and support data warehouse projects. Responsibilities include project support, data validation, and enhancing data management processes, all while collaborating with team members and improving performance.

Data Engineer will develop and support data warehouse projects, analyze data integrations, work with ETL tools, and improve processes while collaborating with team members.

The Assistant Vice President will manage underwriting strategies, support portfolio management, cultivate client relationships, and ensure compliance through effective program management and collaboration across teams.

Lead the design, build-out and management of Ascot's U.S. treaty reinsurance business. Set strategy, coordinate across US/Bermuda/North America teams, cultivate broker and client relationships, drive profitable growth and capital returns, partner with underwriting, claims, actuarial, finance, IT and HR, mentor leaders, and represent Ascot externally. Use AI-enabled tools, automation and analytics to improve underwriting and operations. Role is office-based (Stamford or New York) with frequent international travel.

The AI Governance Lead will develop and oversee Ascot's AI governance framework, ensuring compliance and ethical use of AI across various business areas, while coordinating with legal and risk departments.

Lead vision, roadmap, and modernization for policy administration systems. Partner with underwriting, operations, data, and technology to deliver cross-functional product outcomes, drive transformation, measure business value, and champion user adoption and process improvements in an agile environment.

The Business Intelligence Engineer develops and maintains Power BI reports and dashboards, supports data validation, and collaborates with team members to ensure reporting accuracy and effectiveness. The role includes working with SQL for data retrieval and assisting in report enhancements.

The Underwriting Specialist will support underwriting and marketing strategy, manage regional production targets, and develop distribution partner relationships. Responsibilities include risk approval, adherence to documentation standards, and aiding in associate development.

The Assistant Vice President, Commercial Surety will support underwriting and marketing strategy, manage regional production targets, and develop distribution partner relationships while mentoring junior team members.