Senior Underwriter, Financial Lines

About the role

Responsible for underwriting leadership and P&L management of Financial Lines products across the corporate segment (including Directors & Officers Liability, Professional Indemnity, Cyber, and related specialty lines). The role also drives underwriting excellence and manages relationships with intermediaries and business partners, with a strong focus on service delivery, product development, portfolio optimisation, and innovation within the Financial Lines space. Your New Role: Accountable for underwriting activities and full P&L responsibility across Financial Lines portfolios (e.g. D&O, PI, Cyber, EPL, Crime, MedMal) within the corporate segment. Drive underwriting strategy, portfolio management, and risk selection to ensure sustainable and profitable growth across new business and renewals. Manage underwriting relationships with brokers, multinational partners (MTPs), and key intermediaries, ensuring high service standards, strong engagement, and effective collaboration. Lead business development initiatives to achieve GWP growth targets, including strengthening broker pipelines, expanding key accounts, and enhancing market presence in the Financial Lines segment. Maintain strong technical underwriting discipline, including continuous personal development to achieve and sustain Delegated Authority Level (DAL) capability. Evaluate risks in accordance with underwriting guidelines, appetite, and pricing adequacy frameworks, ensuring sound underwriting judgement and profitable outcomes. Demonstrate strong market awareness, including Financial Lines market cycles, claims trends, legal/regulatory developments (including Malaysian context), and competitive dynamics. Ensure compliance with all legal, regulatory, and internal governance requirements, including adherence to underwriting standards, policies, and risk controls. Support and lead portfolio governance activities, including cell reviews, portfolio monitoring, and identification/follow-through of remediation actions. Build and maintain strong relationships with brokers, clients, and internal stakeholders to support retention, cross-sell opportunities, and overall portfolio growth. Develop deep expertise in Financial Lines products, policy wordings, coverage nuances, and emerging risks (e.g. cyber threats, regulatory exposures, financial misconduct). About You: 7+ years working experience with substantial experience gained within the insurance industry. Degree or equivalent qualification preferable. Strong level of numeracy and literacy and strong analytical skills. Established customer/broker relationships. About QBE What if you could have a positive impact - at work and in the world? At QBE, we're enabling a more resilient future - for our customers, communities, environment, and for our people. We're building momentum to achieve something significant and know our people are at the centre of our success. Our industry offers interesting and varied careers where you can help people to protect what matters most. As part of the QBE team, you'll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. And with more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, our scale means we're big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. QBE Asia's operations is part of the QBE International Division, and has had a presence in Asia for more than 130 years with offices in: Singapore, Hong Kong & Macau, Malaysia and Vietnam. We continue to be recognised for our ongoing focus on digital innovation to deliver exceptional value and operational excellence for our customers, business partners, people and the community. We support ESG efforts through the QBE Foundation, which helps to create strong, resilient and inclusive communities, by focusing investment and efforts on two key areas where we believe we can have the greatest impact - climate resilience and inclusion.