The Internship program provides highly motivated and qualified students an opportunity to gain first-hand experience, receive valuable on-the-job training, and heighten business knowledge. Students will collaborate side by side with BTS employees in a variety of positions to complete challenging projects.  Students will interact with all levels of management and senior leaders, and gain insight into business and technology in the insurance industry.   Key Accountabilities: - Feature support of Middleware technologies in a team setting including WebSphere Application Server/Liberty, Tomcat, Apache, Business Rules, Enterprise Service Bus, BPM, Filenet, and use and support of automation tools. - Work will include documentation, troubleshooting, supporting new requests and incidents - Work may also include development of automation workflows and opportunities to learn .Net, Security, Database and Linux if interested - Completes assigned projects in a timely manner. - Participates in applicable team meetings, cross-team meet, and greets/job shadowing. - Completes overall project presentation (Powerpoint) and presents to Leadership Group upon completion of internship.

The Sr. Financial Analyst – Reinsurance is responsible for all aspects of Reinsurance financial operations and reporting, and the primary resource for all day-to-day reinsurance related matters for the Company. Provide financial analysis on related accounts while ensuring delivery of high standards of service to our internal and external customers.   - Responsible for accurate processing of reinsurance premium and loss cessions in FRS system, including completing associated general ledger entries and reconciliations. - Perform financial analysis on all reinsurers with whom the Company has significant financial exposure and determine collateral requirements. - Responsible for completing quarterly Statutory Schedule F reporting. - Accurately interpret reinsurance contracts and calculations and identify impact to related functions such as claims, finance, and underwriting. - Prepare and present formalized management reporting and analysis over all reinsurance receivables. Determine a course of action for aging receivables. - Actively seek enhancements and make recommendations for new processes to improve efficiencies. - Develop effective working relationships with the Company’s internal and external business partners (Reinsurers, Intermediaries) to ensure customer needs are met. - Manage timely and accurate reinsurer billings and collection of receivables. Respond to inquiries from reinsurers, brokers and auditors. - Perform other special projects and assignments.

Provide product technical expertise for assigned property & casualty insurance line(s) of business encompassing all aspects including, but not limited to, consultation and direction to others of the interpretation of  insurance bureau rating/rules, policy wording and intent, underwriting and claims considerations, legal and regulatory impacts/constraints, and systems implementation.     As respects assigned line(s) of business:   - Serve as a key point of contact for the Operating Units regarding product development and filing requests which leverage the existing General Risk Filings, when possible. - Review and analyze insurance bureau changes and provide recommendations to the Operating Units for action by Enterprise Product Support Services (EPSS). - Coordinate and consult with supported Operating Units and potential new entrants, EPSS Actuarial, and EPSS Regulatory in the creation, adoption, implementation, and modification of bureau and proprietary products. - Work with supported EPSS Operating Units to prioritize product change requests to leverage efficiencies. - Provide potential new Operating Unit entrants with in-depth overview of current product suite available on the platform. - Oversight and/or assist with project initiation and/or planning for projects of moderate to high complexity. - Consult with supported EPSS Operating Units on various jurisdictional regulatory issues and methods of compliance. - Conduct research on various topics and provide communication, recommendation and /or direction to EPSS Staff and the Operating Units. - Responsible for leading periodic product/rate reviews with EPSS Actuarial and EPSS Regulatory and providing resulting summary to the Operating Units. - Stay abreast of industry trends and changes. - Stay abreast of trends and changes within WRBC. - Develop strong and collaborative working relationships with the Operating Unit personnel. - Develop and maintain strong positive working relationships with internal EPSS Actuarial, Regulatory, and Quality Assurance personnel. - Develop and maintain strong positive working relationships with Berkley Technology Services (BTS). - Develop and maintain proficiency with the Genesys System. - Develop clear, concise and accurate business requirements for system implementations. - Assist with Quality Assurance/Quality Control initiatives including, but not limited to, specific testing responsibilities and investigation of system failures and the related impacts as well as recommending a mitigation strategy. - Participate on corporate projects as assigned, including development of new policy administration systems or assistance in establishing new operating units - Assist with development of end-user tools to support the Operating Units. - Serve on various WRBC committees and ad hoc user groups. - Other duties as assigned.

- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture. - Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional/non-functional business requirements. - Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery/ dataOps. - Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL. - Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics. - Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.

Why bamtech    We started in early 2019 as a small group of technologists with a passion for making insurance better. Today we are working with a team of industry experts who run five different insurance brands and collectively control $1 billion in annual premiums.   We believe in an idea and execution meritocracy. In other words, a place where the best ideas win and the people who deliver the most value get the most opportunities.                                                        As we grow our team, we are looking for inquisitive, entrepreneurial people who are excited to reimagine the insurance industry.   Insurance is too complex. Help us make it better.     What we’re looking for As a Product Management Analyst, you will work with one of our Product Managers learning how to build successful software products that customers love. We are going to give you a lot of instruction and feedback in your first year in order to help you become highly effective in your role. We believe that people can only be effective when they have clarity, and we will strive to always give you clarity. We are looking for someone who will be dedicated to learning, taking action on feedback, and building great relationships with colleagues.   Beyond that, we’re looking for someone with a high degree of ownership, who values completing work and admits failures; someone who always seeks to understand the Why for things and never accepts an incomplete understanding; someone who is biased toward validating opinions with data and maintains a healthy skepticism about the subjective; and someone who is not afraid of technology and always learning new skills.   What we’ll bring - An engaged and supportive leadership team that will invest in you - Talented engineering teams to build products with - A broad group of industry experts who work closely with us on everything we do - A budget for continual improvement - Generous retirement plan - Excellent medical and dental insurance (and other health benefits)    What your day will look like   - Delivering Results. You will learn how to curate the best ideas, hypothesize their value, and implement the most promising of them. We will ask you to constantly re-assess what we have built to make sure we are realizing actual value. - Focusing on the Data. We will assign you Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that define your goals and quantify the results we aim to achieve. We will ask you to regularly review your indicators for actionable insights and to present your findings to stakeholders during OKR Reviews. - Understanding Our Customers. We will ask you to routinely expose yourself to customer feedback. You will use this exposure to anticipate customer needs and constantly improve their experiences. - Saying No. We will teach you how to choose the right problem to solve next. You will learn how to say no to things and to weigh short and long term trade-offs while keeping a healthy preference for long term solutions. - Challenging Status Quo. For various processes, we will expect you to understand what we do and why we do it. Then we will ask you to work across Business, Operations, Design, Data, and Engineering teams to reimagine how.

- Work with various teams and stakeholders to create and maintain digital experiences for multiple insurance brands. - Evaluate new technology and form data-based opinions to ensure continued high level product offerings. - Use an understanding of digital customers’ needs to drive digital product decisions. - Build and maintain digital interfaces to core systems. - Estimate units of work, participates in design discussion and code review.

- A product driven mindset where you are constantly evaluating business value in engineering tasks and decisions. - The courage and motivation to have evidence based discussions on multiple approaches to a single problem. - Eagerness to learn new technologies and business processes. - Effective collaboration skills and a team player attitude. - Build mission critical business systems. - Reviewing code work for accuracy and functionality. - Creating and implementing design plans. - Delegating tasks to team members. - Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and technology developments. - Being involved in multiple phases of the software development lifecycle. - Interact with other engineering teams to build tooling and processes. - Work closely with product and data teams to build a technology ecosystem driving business transformation.

- Work with various teams and stakeholders to create and maintain digital experiences for multiple insurance brands – setting goals for the digital team and removing challenges that they face. - Evaluate new technology and form data-based opinions to ensure continued high level product offerings. - Use an understanding of digital customers’ needs to drive digital product decisions and technical strategy. - Build and maintain digital interfaces to core systems, providing technical leadership to other team members. - Estimates projects, identifies non-functional requirements, leads design discussion and code review. - Looks critically at people, process, and technology in department and contributes to continuous improvement.

The Internship program provides highly motivated and qualified students an opportunity to gain first-hand experience, receive valuable on-the-job training, and heighten business knowledge. Students will collaborate side by side with BTS employees in a variety of positions to complete challenging projects.  Students will interact with all levels of management and senior leaders, and gain insight into business and technology in the insurance industry.   Key Accountabilities: - Works with the end customers to identify bug fixes and features for new product releases. - Completes quality testing of project releases and communicates defects to the developers. - Coordinates project releases. - Completes assigned projects in a timely manner. - Participates in applicable team meetings, cross-team meet, and greets/job shadowing. - Completes overall project presentation (Powerpoint) and presents to Leadership Group upon completion of internship.

The Internship program provides highly motivated and qualified students an opportunity to gain first-hand experience, receive valuable on-the-job training, and heighten business knowledge. Students will collaborate side by side with BTS employees in a variety of positions to complete challenging projects.  Students will interact with all levels of management and senior leaders, and gain insight into business and technology in the insurance industry.   Key Accountabilities: - Work on small projects and bug fix the code - Intern would have at least 3 projects during the term - Involvement would be design through implementation of the project - Testing - Bug fixing - Documentation - Working as part of a team - Code Reviews - Completes assigned projects in a timely manner. - Participates in applicable team meetings, cross-team meet, and greets/job shadowing. - Completes overall project presentation (Powerpoint) and presents to Leadership Group upon completion of internship.

- Build mission critical business systems. - Working on multiple projects across various technology platforms. - Being involved in multiple phases of the software development lifecycle. - Interact with other engineering teams to build tooling and processes. - Work closely with product and data teams to build a technology ecosystem driving business transformation.

The Internship program provides highly motivated and qualified students an opportunity to gain first-hand experience, receive valuable on-the-job training, and heighten business knowledge. Students will collaborate side by side with BTS employees in a variety of positions to complete challenging projects.  Students will interact with all levels of management and senior leaders, and gain insight into business and technology in the insurance industry.   Key Accountabilities: - Runs monthly resource capacity and project portfolio reports. - Analyze monthly reports and communicate findings to Team Lead. - Participates in the updates of the IT Portfolio Management Tool for 2022 budget cycle. - Participates in cross-team coordination to maintain resource data. - Participates in applicable team meetings, cross-team meet and greets/job shadowing.

Why Berkley? Berkley Canada is a boutique Specialty and Accident, Health & Travel Insurer delivering exceptional expertise and service to broker partners and insureds. Our mission is to be the best for our employees, customers and shareholders. Being the best means generating better experiences and outcomes for these stakeholders. To achieve this, our strategy is simple: find industry experts in a line of business and empower them to better serve that specific niche by encouraging each other to be innovative and create new opportunities.   Position Summary The Administrative Assistant supports the AH&T team with multiple responsibilities, primary of which are managing the administrative tasks of the AH&T Claims team. The Administrative Assistant will be the main point of contact for AH&T Claims and will provide additional support to the AH&T leaderships. The day-to-day tasks are an integral part of the team’s success, requiring focus, diligence and accuracy.   What will your typical day look like? - Check email boxes for queries, questions and claims - Answer departmental questions and distribute emails to correct individuals, tracking distribution for timely follow up - Enter claims into Berkley’s claims systems - Upload documents to file folders - Prepare cheque requisitions and liaise with Finance for payments - Manage mail requests, including registered letters - Process administrative tasks for AH&T leadership - Participate on other projects and assignments as requested

The Vice President, Claims is responsible for the overall management and direction of the claims department.  Equally as important, participation on the Executive Team, that establishes the strategic direction for the company and ensures the overall profitability and success of the company in the human services market   Member of Executive Team - Proactive participation on Executive Team which establishes and executes the strategic direction of the company - Work closely with the CEO to discuss, evaluate, and implement strategic directions for the claims operation that supports the overall direction of the company - Establish solid relationships with other members of the Executive Team in order to improve team performance - Be able to clearly communicate strategic direction to both internal resources and outside partners and insureds Overall Management of Claims Operation - Manage a team of claims professionals by establishing clear performance metrics - Implement strong policies and procedures designed to produce the desired results - Ensure the continual professional development of claims professionals on the team by coordinating both internal and external training and development opportunities - Develop and implement claim best practices for proper and consistent claim performance, compliance and achievement of business goals - Establish clear reserving standards and ensure that those standards are continually met - Identify issues and trends in the portfolio; take appropriate and/or corrective action where necessary; communicate trends to underwriters, insureds and brokers - Identify claims with significant exposure and take a more active role coordinating a strategy for an appropriate resolution - Coordinate with underwriting on current and proposed policy language and new markets to enter - Cultivate a departmental culture that excels in communication and collaboration - Drives the development, implementation and continuous planning, organizing and leading of all claim programs, metrics, processes, results and initiatives Develop Berkley Human Services into a “Thought Leader” within the human services marketplace - Proactively establish relationships with brokers and insureds in order to maximize the competitive advantage derived from the claim’s operation. - Develop and manage the reputation of BHS’s claims handling in the market - Attend industry conventions and events and become a sought out thought leader on developing issues - Attend marketing, account renewal, and reinsurance meetings as appropriate in order to communicate our claims handling philosophy and leading position in this area - Instill the above philosophies into all claim’s professionals at the company - Work closely with company’s loss control function to provide value-added services to our insureds that reduce our exposure to loss Liaison to both internal and external partners of the company - Liaison with parent company, WR Berkley, on significant individual claims and trends identified in the overall portfolio - Communicate portfolio trends and potential solutions to underwriting and actuarial areas - Participate on quarterly performance calls with parent company in anticipation of earnings releases May perform other functions as assigned.     *This role is physically located in Minneapolis, MN.  Relocation assistance is available.

  Why BTS    Berkley Technology Services (BTS) is a dynamic company committed to providing world class IT services.  We offer a unique culture, enabling our team members to be on the cutting edge of technology while delivering high quality solutions.  We are looking for outstanding individuals who will bring unique perspectives, insight and innovation to our teams. BTS is constantly growing and expanding to meet the changing demands of one of the most successful insurance organizations in the world.   If you are ready to jump start your career, BTS is the place for you.   What we’re looking for:   Are you ready to manage a highly skilled team and push them to greatness?  We’re looking for you to provide strong leadership to drive delivery. You will be managing large scale enterprise level initiatives using Agile principles at scale. As a technical delivery manager, you will curate and implement portfolio management practices that balance the portfolio of our investments and continuously align them to our strategic vision.   What You’ll Do:   - Deliver Results.  Ability to thrive and produce results in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.  Leverage problem solving skills to ensure plans deliver on intent. - Measure Value. You will prioritize high-value, high-need investments that bring value to the business. You will also continuously steer those investments and evaluate their alignment to the business value process chain of an organization. - Understanding Our Customers. Learn and empathize with our customers. Partner with key stakeholders to provide thought leadership to influence outcomes. - Build high performing teams. We expect you to understand what we do and why we do it. This will help you assemble teams/pods to maximize productivity and achieve business value. You will hold product and engineering teams accountable to their goals.     What we’ll bring - An engaged and supportive leadership team that will invest in you - Talented engineering teams to build products with - A broad group of industry experts who work closely with us on everything we do - A budget for continual improvement - Generous retirement plan - Excellent medical and dental insurance (and other health benefits)

The Regulatory Compliance team manages all compliance activities for 3 WRBC operating units, as well as being the E&S Regulatory Center for 5 E&S companies within WRBC. - Responsible for compliance matters for 3 operating units including data calls, market conduct exams, producer and adjuster licensing appointments and continuing education, and applications for admissions. - Manages intake workflow for 5 E&S companies, ensuring timely and proper treatment of urgent items such as lawsuits, subpoenas, and consumer complaints. - Responsible for legislative reviews. - Oversees clearing of OFAC exceptions. - Leads annual training for operating units on OFAC, adjuster licensing and CE updates, E Commerce and other topics. - Responsible for maintaining a strong and modern control environment, with proper risk mitigation procedures. - Coordinates the unit workflow by developing a trained, competent, well-motivated staff utilizing effective leadership and team building skills, providing training programs, career planning and implementing departmental objectives consistent with the company’s mission, vision and objectives. - Manages team of 3, including hiring, performance management, training, and oversight. - Provide support to all interdepartmental personnel as requested or assigned. - Complete special projects assigned by management.

The Senior Commercial Lines Underwriter evaluates (selection and pricing) and maintains (control) risk acceptability and profitability within the company’s underwriting guidelines and procedures for commercial risks. S/he partners with agents to manage a challenging and/or complex book of commercial business or agency relationships. Demonstrates complex decision-making with little or no supervision, recommending quality exceptions where appropriate to maximize profitability and meet business plans. Supports marketing activities to agents and actively participates in the agency management process. Serves as a mentor providing technical support, training, and problem solving for other underwriters. Responsible for working with and protecting confidential and proprietary customer and Company information.   Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: - Analyzes commercial lines accounts to make decisions based on individual risk characteristics, exposure analysis, hazard recognition and control.  - Utilizes underwriting guidelines to ensure compliance with state regulations.  Within delegated authority levels, accepts, rejects or modifies new and/or renewal business to ensure a profitable book of business.   - Prices business according to Company underwriting and pricing guidelines.  Assists less experienced underwriters in the handling of high hazard or more complex accounts.  - Partners with Territory Managers to support marketing activities by developing ongoing relationships with agents to discuss market appetite, quality and profitability of submissions, service standards, and underwriting and/or product changes. - Communicates with agents on underwriting issues including decisions on cancellations, declinations, exposure concerns, and survey results. - Partners with Territory Managers to identify issues or patterns and works to resolve or improve them; participates in agency planning and review processes; and may identify sales and marketing opportunities.   Takes a lead role relative to Key Account review and recommendations. - Travels, with or without Territory Manager, to assigned agent locations to develop agency partnerships.  - Trains and educates agency staff on Company products, services, processes, and underwriting philosophy.   - Assists in training and serves as a technical resource to other underwriters as needed.  - Attend industry workshops/meetings each year.

The Assistant Vice President and Counsel will be an active member of W. R. Berkley Corporation’s corporate legal department, focused on supporting W. R. Berkley’s general corporate and investment functions and giving continual legal counsel to business colleagues and senior management.  The successful candidate will be business-savvy, capable of understanding the investment and business objectives of the Company and using impeccable judgment to align legal advice thereto. The attorney will skillfully represent the Company when dealing with outside counsel and transaction counterparties.   Some of the key points which make this opportunity attractive include: - Counsel and advise investment and business clients of a multi-billion-dollar S&P and Fortune 500 corporation recognized as an industry leader, positioned for continued growth. - Serve as a key member of a small, high-performing legal department in order to lead and participate in a diverse set of corporate and investment transactions and other general legal matters. - Work directly with senior members of the W. R. Berkley legal department and in partnership with one of the most sophisticated teams of business executives and investment professionals in the country. - Work for a company whose leaders pride themselves on integrity, the culture for their employees and a reputation of relationships built on trust and respect with customers, counterparties and government regulators. Responsibilities: - Provide legal support for W. R. Berkley Corporation’s investment group and corporate operations, as well as related regulatory and corporate matters. - Work closely and proactively with senior management, providing legal counsel and guidance for both the ordinary and special activities of the Company to ensure maximum protection of its legal rights and to maintain its investments and operations within the limits prescribed by law. - Advise on and negotiate transaction documents for alternative investments across a wide variety of asset classes and industries in collaboration with investment colleagues to accomplish stated investment objectives while protecting the Company’s legal position. - Provide support for general corporate and organizational activities and W. R. Berkley public reporting requirements.

The Senior Underwriter is primarily responsible for risk evaluation and pricing for new and existing business in accordance with the company’s underwriting approach and guidelines.  The Senior Underwriter develops and fosters positive, professional, and effective relationships with the company’s broker partners, as well as achieves company growth and profitability objectives.  This position is expected to exhibit a high level of technical expertise, while exercising sound judgment, and delivering consistent results. The Senior Underwriter is also expected to be a leader and role model within the department, helping to train and mentor less experienced staff.  The Senior Underwriter is expected to be solution oriented and exhibit a strong customer experience mindset.   Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:   - Selects new business and evaluates renewal accounts in accordance with company underwriting philosophy and guidelines. - Works within established authority parameters and adheres to written/verbal processes and procedures. - Demonstrates a professional, courteous attitude with brokers and other company staff. Responds quickly and ethically to all requests/issues.  Assists in issue resolution and will coordinate with other departments when necessary. - Provides accurate and thorough guidance to brokers regarding the company’s appetite philosophy and pricing guidelines. - Monitors performance criteria, including premium and unit count goals, mix of business, production ratios for assigned brokers/product segments. - Achieves company growth objectives by recognizing sales opportunities, soliciting desirable business, supporting company rate strategy and diligent follow-up on quoted business. - Travels to brokers providing field underwriting and quoting as needed. - Reviews claims activity, loss control surveys, and inspection reports for existing policies, handling as required. - Collaborates with colleagues in Marketing/Sales to achieve shared objectives and execute company strategy. - Determines the appropriate course of action for policy changes, delegating as appropriate to processing assistants for handling. - Provides mentoring and training to less experienced staff members. - Embraces the importance of the customer experience and is execution oriented. - Uses an innovative mindset to improve the department function and achieve strategic objectives. - Handles other projects or initiatives as assigned

- This position will use existing software tools to implement new and make changes to existing web-based, high quality software applications, while ensuring the applications meet the business requirements expressed by the business users. - Employ continuous process improvement mind-set to push existing systems and business processes to be as efficient as possible. - This will include employing a full project life cycle implementation methodology, from planning to production implementation, with emphasis on building a consistent and effective development environment that leverages current technology (.NET, SQL Server and web-based solutions) to meet the business goals. - A key factor in the design of new systems will be the ability to maintain the systems with the least amount of effort, including the testing effort.  Systems should be designed such that changes have a small chance of affecting other parts of the system – reducing the testing effort. - Have a curious mind that thrives on learning new things and improving the status quo. - Little to no travel required. - Other duties as assigned.