Jobs at Ascot Group

Leads enterprise data transformation and integration strategy, overseeing data pipelines, governance, quality, security, compliance, and workflow optimization. Partners with business, governance, and IT teams to deliver scalable data solutions, manage vendors, and support regulatory requirements. Provides leadership and mentorship to data engineers and integration specialists while driving continuous improvement across data management practices.

Perform US GAAP accounting and reporting, including share-based compensation, reconciliations, journal entries, consolidations, intercompany accounting, financial disclosures, and audit support. Maintain internal financial controls, investigate accounting issues, support month-end and quarterly close processes, and improve Finance workflows through automation and emerging technologies. The role also handles debt, equity, foreign exchange, tax, and ad hoc financial analysis.

Manage and resolve primary and excess Financial Institutions claims, including investigations, coverage analysis, litigation, reserves, negotiations, and counsel management. Prepare exposure and loss reports, advise underwriting, draft coverage correspondence, maintain claims files, monitor legal and marketplace developments, and support strategic initiatives. The role requires collaboration with brokers, insureds, attorneys, and internal partners, along with maintaining adjuster licenses and traveling to mediations, conferences, trials, and depositions.

Supports the Enterprise Risk Management and Actuarial Functions across Ascot Group entities. Responsibilities include maintaining risk registers and governance frameworks, reviewing controls, preparing quarterly risk reports and annual ORSA documentation, monitoring emerging risks, developing risk appetite metrics, supporting scenario analysis, and assisting with regulatory, compliance, committee, audit, and Lloyd’s attestation activities.

Provides high-level administrative support to Legal and Compliance leaders and Corporate Secretarial functions. Responsibilities include complex calendar and travel management, expense reporting, board and committee meeting coordination, drafting corporate documents, maintaining legal and entity records, tracking initiatives, coordinating stakeholders, conducting basic legal research, and managing confidential information. Requires exceptional organization, discretion, communication, project management, and proficiency with Microsoft Office, collaboration, and AI-enabled tools.

Leads global infrastructure, DevOps, and database teams while providing hands-on technical guidance across Azure cloud infrastructure and IT operations. Responsibilities include technical leadership, procedure development, automation, problem resolution, ITIL practices, resource management, compliance, service delivery, vendor partnerships, and people leadership. The role drives operational efficiency, supports cloud transformation, manages escalations, and collaborates with business and IT stakeholders in a hybrid, in-office environment.

Manages workflow for Financial Lines underwriting products, supporting underwriters throughout the policy lifecycle. Processes and quality-checks policies, binders, invoices, endorsements, cancellations, renewals, and reinstatements while meeting service-level agreements. Coordinates with offshore teams, service centers, underwriters, brokers, and internal finance, systems, data, and actuarial teams. Identifies process improvements and implements solutions.

The Senior Internal Auditor supports annual internal audit testing, develops audit policies and programs, oversees financial reporting controls testing, and manages audit engagements from scoping through remediation. The role contributes to audit planning, continuous monitoring, audit committee reporting, data analytics, special projects, and risk assessment. It requires collaboration with leaders, strong knowledge of auditing standards and financial controls, and the ability to manage multiple engagements and projects.

Supports internal audit leadership by planning and executing audit engagements, testing financial reporting controls under NAIC requirements, identifying risks, drafting findings, tracking remediation, and performing continuous monitoring and special projects. The role also supports data analytics initiatives, maintains audit and accounting knowledge, and collaborates with leaders across the organization while maintaining objectivity.

Leads profitable growth, sales activity, customer engagement, and market execution across Ascot’s Southeast region. Builds relationships with customers, brokers, employees, and business partners; develops territory and client engagement plans; identifies opportunities using analytics and digital tools; collaborates with underwriting, distribution, and business leaders; supports talent development; and champions company culture. Requires extensive specialty insurance experience, P&L management, strong commercial judgment, and regional travel.

Leads Ascot UK’s Internal Controls function and owns the ICFR program, including control framework enhancement, annual testing, risk-control matrices, SOX and COSO compliance, remediation, and external audit coordination. Provides technical accounting leadership across UK and US GAAP, manages statutory and consolidation activities, advises Finance through the Technical Accounting Group, leads special projects, and manages the Internal Controls team and Technical Accountant.

Leads and scales Ascot’s global investment operations infrastructure, including portfolio workflows, reporting, analytics, data management, technology platforms, governance, controls, and process improvement. Partners with investment, finance, treasury, risk, technology, and accounting teams to improve operational accuracy and efficiency. Builds the investment operations function, establishes its operating model, leads platform testing and documentation, and hires and develops the team.

Supports Ascot’s alternative investment activities across private markets, hedge funds, and other partnership-driven strategies. Responsibilities include market research, manager and fund diligence, investment analysis, portfolio-fit assessment, commitment pacing, monitoring, reporting, and recommendations to investment leadership. The role also builds analytical tools, evaluates risks and terms, tracks portfolio developments, supports asset allocation, and improves investment workflows using data, automation, and AI-enabled tools.

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.

Lead and manage the Conduct & Complaints Team to maintain and develop conduct risk, consumer duty and complaints frameworks. Oversee policy updates, regulatory reporting to FCA and Lloyd's, MI and dashboards, stakeholder training, complaint handling, root-cause analysis, and the annual Consumer Duty attestation. Support cross-functional projects and ensure regulatory adherence across delegated authority, claims and underwriting teams.

Manage and investigate Management Liability claims (D&O, EPL, Fiduciary, Commercial Crime), analyze exposures, prepare reports, coordinate with underwriting, brokers, insureds and outside counsel, draft coverage correspondence, maintain files, obtain adjuster licenses, attend mediations/trials, and support Financial Lines claims initiatives and strategic projects.

Lead global privacy strategy, ensure compliance with various data protection laws, manage data privacy issues, and collaborate across teams on governance.

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.

Manage governance, controls, and performance oversight for delegated claims administrators and Coverholders. Responsibilities include negotiating claims agreements, monitoring loss funds and bordereaux, conducting due diligence and conduct checks, overseeing audits, ensuring Lloyd’s compliance, managing stakeholder relationships, producing executive reporting, improving data dashboards and processes, and supporting claims transformation initiatives. The role also provides training, escalates issues, participates in committees, and deputizes for the Head of Claims 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.