Assistant Reinsurance Technician

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: 12-month FTC

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 205532

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance , who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Assistant Reinsurance Technician to join our Gloucester office.

The Assistant Reinsurance Technician provides administrative and technical support to the Reinsurance and Underwriting teams, ensuring accurate and timely processing of reinsurance transactions and reporting activities. This role will support day to day referrals, key reporting and control processes and contributes to the optimal placement of property reinsurance alongside third party arrangements.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group - where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Process reinsurance placements accurately and efficiently within authority and service standards.

• Support the administration and reconciliation of third-party arrangements.

• Manage and prioritise team workloads to meet operational deadlines.

• Update and distribute weekly and monthly reports.

• Assist with annual reinsurance set-up activities following documented procedures.

• Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders across the business.

• Suggest process improvements to increase efficiency, accuracy, and performance.

What you'll need to have

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to manipulate data, use formulas, and maintain reporting spreadsheets.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Strong attention to detail with a high level of accuracy.

What makes you stand out

• Previous relevant experience would be advantageous

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it

• Hybrid working

• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

• Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 6% and 24%

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme

• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance

• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice

• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Full study support to gain professional qualifications

• Access to virtual GP

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Ecclesiastical Insurance   offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.

As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

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.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26