Senior Business Analyst - Underwriting

This is a Fixed Term Contract role until the end of 2026, London based role with hybrid working. A strategically important role where you'll shape how sustainability-related underwriting growth is measured and reported, equipping QBE with the data and insights needed to drive sustainable growth and support the energy transition.

This is a high-impact opportunity to join QBE at a pivotal point in its underwriting and growth journey. As a Senior Business Analyst – Underwriting, you will help to shape how underwriting growth is defined, measured, and enabled across the business, with a particular focus on the energy transition and sustainable insurance solutions. Working at the intersection of underwriting, data, change, and technology, you will translate strategic ambition into practical frameworks, clear measures, and actionable insights that inform decision-making and support QBE's long‑term growth objectives.

About QBE: At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. And we do it all with a human touch. We're an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries – which means we're big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It's an exciting time. We're building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

Your new role:

• Lead the analysis and definition of a framework to measure underwriting growth, with a particular focus on energy transition and sustainable insurance solutions.
• Partner with underwriting leaders to articulate how existing underwriting activity supports the energy transition, including defining data, taxonomy, and measurement approaches.
• Establish clear growth measures and success metrics to support onward underwriting growth and inform strategic decision-making.
• Analyse existing underwriting and book‑of‑business data to understand what information is available, what can be leveraged, and where gaps exist.
• Partner with Technology, Architecture, Data, and Change teams to define technology and data requirements that enable effective measurement and reporting of underwriting growth.
• Collaborate with underwriting governance, performance planning, and finance teams to ensure growth measures align with how the business plans, tracks, and reports performance.
• Produce clear, structured business analysis artefacts, including requirements, data models, and insights, to support delivery through change and ESG‑related programmes.
• Support the identification and delivery of quick wins at a local or regional level while maintaining a longer‑term, scalable approach to growth measurement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Project Manager and senior stakeholders, providing insight, challenge, and clarity across complex underwriting and data topics.
• Work within QBE ways of working, contributing to enterprise‑wide initiatives and collaborating effectively across underwriting, insurance, and international markets.

Having the right to work in the UK is a requirement for this role. QBE may consider sponsorship at its discretion.

About You:

• Extensive experience working as a Business Analyst or architect within underwriting, with a strong understanding of commercial lines and London Market environments.
• Proven experience analysing underwriting performance, growth, and portfolio data, with the ability to define meaningful measures and success metrics.
• Strong data capability, including experience working with complex datasets, logical data models, and data requirements to support business insight and decision‑making.
• Experience working across change, technology, data, and governance teams, translating business needs into clear, structured requirements.
• Confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, with the ability to explain complex underwriting and data concepts clearly and pragmatically.

Benefits:

• 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
• Flexible working – balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part‑time, job share and compressed hours.
• Pension – you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.
• Private medical insurance – we fund fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all the family.
• Family friendly policies – we offer 26 weeks leave at full pay regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or how you become a parent.
• Short term remote work abroad – you can request up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad.
• Sustainable investing – we believe sustainable integration is important for long term financial, environmental, and social outcomes.
• Cycle‑to‑Work – benefit from regular exercise whilst making your commute greener and cheaper, select and bike and/or accessories up to the value of £5,000.

Awards & Recognition:

• Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2025: Winner: Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year, Winner: Reinsurer of the Year – QBE Re, Winner: ESG, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year.
• Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2023: QBE rated as a 5‑Star Employee.

How to Apply: Apply today.

Skills: Cost Management, Critical Thinking, Delegating Tasks, Financial Products, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Negotiation, Prioritization, Project Planning, Project Resource Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Team Management, Waterfall Model.

Equal Employment Opportunity: QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.