Toronto
Are you looking for a place that truly values and accepts differences of perspectives and understands that winning together builds a stronger organization?
Are you looking for an organization that is a powerful platform driven by exceptional people, and one where you can be recognized and rewarded for individual excellence in a team framework?
Are you looking for the opportunity to start building meaningful, professional relationships with people who, like you, have a high level of capabilities and strong character, who care about each other, their customers, and communities?
Want to be part of the team building the finest property, casualty, and specialty lines insurance company in the world?
If so, then our 2025 Internship is for you!
Job Opportunity:
We have an exciting opportunity for an Underwriting Intern to join our Toronto, Canada team. This opportunity is available in our Executive and Professional practice. Lines of coverage you will be exposed to include Directors and Officers Liability (D&O), Errors & Omissions (E&O), Employment Practices Liability (EPL), Fiduciary Liability, Crime/Fidelity, and Cyber Insurance.
During your 4-month paid summer internship, you will begin your summer by underwriting risks alongside a team of experienced underwriters and have opportunities to utilize, manipulate and analyze data to help inform decision-making and enhance how the team views a working portfolio of risks. In doing so, you’ll learn about the insurance industry, and experience first-hand, the teamwork that it takes to deliver flexible, responsive solutions to our customers.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:
- 0-2 years of professional experience (experience in an office setting is preferred).
- Working towards University/College Degree or equivalent – (focus on Finance, Business, Accounting, Economics, Risk Management preferred).
- Demonstrated understanding of financial analysis, financial markets, and key accounting concepts.
- Demonstrated comfort reading and analyzing financial statements.
- Desire to learn and synthesize an understanding of policy forms and coverage types.
- Experience with MS Office applications (moderate to high comfort with excel programming is desired).
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Support underwriters through workups, raters, analysis that is consistent with the team’s strategic focus.
- Create submissions utilizing the Source and Exceedance along with meticulous file management.
- Provide data analysis support to the branch cross-sell initiative (gathering and manipulating data in a clear and usable format).
- Collaborate with teammates across all product lines.
- Work in a fast paced environment with agility and decisiveness.
- Establish the ‘summer project’ to be provided and presented to senior leadership (task and focus dependent).
Who are we?
A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.
We are a values-based organization where respect, integrity, excellence, collaboration, and passion define who we are and how we do business. We value diversity of backgrounds, experience and perspectives and strive to foster an inclusive environment that enables all our team members to bring their best selves to work. We are one team committed to building a culture where every teammate has the opportunity to contribute and be recognized.
Learn more about our unique culture and history.
BHSI Offers:
- The opportunity to build a broad knowledge of the Insurance industry through on the job training.
- The opportunity to collaborate with BHSI interns across North America.
- One-on-one mentorship, career development and learning opportunities as you engage with senior management.
- A liberating, fast-paced culture, centered on always doing the right thing for our customers, teammates and our business.
- A purposely non-bureaucratic organization that embraces simplicity over complexity, encourages innovation, and emphasizes individual excellence in a team framework.
Please send resumes to [email protected]
Visit our website at www.bhspecialty.com