Jobs at Ascot Group

Leads the US reserving function, overseeing quarterly reserve processes, actuarial assumptions, deep-dive analyses, reporting, controls, and best-practice development. Presents reserve recommendations to senior committees, supports corporate reporting, improves reserving analytics and data capabilities, peer reviews pricing assumptions, and partners with UK and Bermuda reserving leaders. Manages, develops, and retains a high-performing actuarial team while exercising independent judgment and communicating findings effectively.

Supports Financial Institutions underwriting across new business, renewals, and account servicing. Responsibilities include submission preparation, rating, quoting, binding, policy issuance, endorsements, documentation, workflow coordination, and resolving outstanding information with underwriters, brokers, reinsurers, and internal teams. The role maintains accurate files, supports process improvements, and develops expertise in financial institution risks, products, market trends, and broker relationships.

Performs offensive cybersecurity activities including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing coordination, application security testing, remediation oversight, continuous monitoring, and patch management. Supports red and purple team exercises, researches emerging threat techniques, validates AI-generated security findings, develops risk metrics, and collaborates with technical teams and vendors. The role also helps implement secure development practices, automate offensive security workflows, and integrate security results into vulnerability-management processes.

The Business Systems Analyst bridges business stakeholders and technology teams to define requirements, improve insurance operations, support product and system enhancements, and resolve complex data and system issues. Responsibilities include requirements elicitation, user story and acceptance criteria development, Agile ceremonies, data reconciliation, testing, process improvement, documentation, training, and change management. The role requires P&C insurance knowledge, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and at least three years of business analysis experience.

Leads responsible AI adoption across U.S. operations, identifying opportunities, developing roadmaps, and delivering AI solutions from concept through adoption. Partners with business, technology, data teams, and external vendors across underwriting, claims, policy, actuarial, finance, and operations. Builds business cases, manages governance, drives process redesign and change management, and promotes AI literacy and user adoption while ensuring alignment with business value, risk, compliance, and organizational objectives.

Supports operational transformation and process improvement across internal teams and BPO partners. Documents current and future workflows, develops process maps and SOPs, identifies risks and improvement opportunities, coordinates vendor governance, and supports operating model transitions. The role helps establish process controls, ownership, governance, reporting, and standardized ways of working while analyzing opportunities for automation, AI enablement, and workflow modernization.

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.

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.