Jobs at Ascot Group

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.

Investigate, evaluate, manage, and resolve complex Florida workers’ compensation claims from opening through settlement. Responsibilities include determining compensability, contacting involved parties, reviewing medical bills, maintaining claim documentation, setting reserves, processing payments, negotiating settlements, and recommending actions to claims management. The role requires strong communication, organization, analytical judgment, decision-making, and collaboration with policyholders, injured workers, medical providers, brokers, attorneys, and internal teams.

Leads technical pricing for treaty reinsurance across casualty, professional, and specialty lines. Evaluates proportional and non-proportional treaties, develops actuarial pricing models, incorporates catastrophe and loss-cost analysis, advises underwriting leadership and brokers, monitors portfolio profitability and rate adequacy, supports reserving and capital planning, ensures compliance with actuarial standards, and mentors junior actuaries.

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.

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.

Provides front-of-house reception and administrative support, including greeting visitors, managing calls, coordinating meeting rooms and refreshments, arranging couriers, taxis, lunches, and travel, processing petty cash, distributing post, maintaining office supplies, and assisting Facilities with office-related issues.

Supports underwriting and operations workflows by preparing renewals, clearing submissions, processing dead accounts, performing quality checks, filing correspondence, and entering, analyzing, and validating data. Collaborates with underwriting teams and Operations Technical Specialists, assists with special projects, and completes additional assignments while maintaining accuracy, organization, and timely delivery.

The Assistant Vice President will underwrite marine hull and liability risks, develop broker relationships, and drive portfolio profitability while collaborating with the Ocean Marine team.

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.

Underwrite Inland Marine business to achieve profitable growth through retail and wholesale broker distribution. Independently select risks, set pricing and program structure, manage portfolio performance, assess engineering/risk quality, implement reinsurance actions, adhere to CAT guidelines, and deepen broker relationships through marketing and in-person engagement.

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.

The Business Product Manager leads operational improvements in underwriting, aligns initiatives with strategic goals, and collaborates with various teams to enhance processes and products.

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.

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.