Benefact Trust Limited
Melbourne or Adelaide
Full-time

Senior Underwriter

We are looking for a Senior Underwriter to join our Melbourne or Adelaide office. Competitive salary, excellent benefits and hybrid working.

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent 

Location: Melbourne or Adelaide

Job Ref: REQ204201

About the role

Ansvar Australia, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Senior Underwriter to join our Melbourne or Adelaide office.

Joining Ansvar as a Senior Underwriter takes your insurance career to the next level with genuine opportunities for professional growth and skill development. This role offers the exciting opportunity to write multiline business across our diverse mid-market portfolio, giving you exposure to multiple product areas and significantly broadening your underwriting expertise.

You'll enjoy genuine autonomy in underwriting medium to complex risks while having the backing of an experienced team. The role combines technical underwriting excellence with relationship building - you'll get out of the office regularly for broker and client visits across the Southern Region, making this role perfect for someone who values variety and human connection in their work.

Key responsibilities

  • Assist in the growth and maintenance of profitable, sustainable business within the allocated Regions portfolio of business
  • Undertake personal underwriting of the schemes and medium to large sized policies, including new business
  • Deliver professional and efficient customer service to brokers and distribution partners, as well as internal colleagues
  • Assist the Commercial Team Leader, Southern Region Manager and wider Underwriting and Distribution team in maximising the profitability of the Ansvar’s portfolio
  • Contribute to the alignment of risk and compliance management practises within the allocated portfolio by sitting at the first line of defence
  • Contribute to developing a workplace learning environment

Knowledge, skills and experience

  • Multi-line property and casualty experience(or the hunger to develop it - we'll invest in your training)
  • Broker relationship skills- you love building genuine connections
  • Commercial lines expertisewith at least 5 years of underwriting and business development experience
  • ANZIIF Associate qualification(completed or in progress) or relevant tertiary qualifications
  • Natural relationship builderwho thrives in a collaborative, positive environment
  • Business passion- you're genuinely excited about insurance and driving results

Why join us?

We are embracing significant organisational change and need innovative thinkers and change makers who want to shape the future, not just be part of it.

Your Voice Matters: Work directly with decision-makers who champion fresh ideas and where you can make a genuine impact.

Diverse Opportunities: As a nimble, dynamic organisation, you’ll gain exposure to challenging projects and cross-functional skills.

Meaningful Work: From our Community Education Programme to protecting heritage buildings and partnering with faith-based and community organisations, your work will make a tangible difference.

Be part of a collaborative, inclusive, ambitious culture committed to making a difference and working towards a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst Australia's Top 40 Best Workplaces to Give Back in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities, with all of our profits going to charity and good causes.

What we offer

  • A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  • Flexible, Hybrid working in modern CBD offices
  • Generous industry performance bonuses
  • Generous annual leave plus birthday, well-being, paid parental, volunteering & more
  • Tailored professional development programs
  • Recognised as the Best Australian Workplace for Fathers (2025)
  • Good Company Award Winner (2025)

About us

At Ansvar Insurance, we are transforming the way we operate. As specialists in the Care, Community, Faith, Education, and Heritage sectors, we are modernising our business while staying true to our purpose - protecting those who serve others.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

  • Company
  • Ansvar Australia
  • Role
  • Underwriting
  • Locations
  • Melbourne, Adelaide
  • Remote status
  • Hybrid
  • Employment type
  • Permanent - Full Time

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