Underwriter

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future.

If you’re an experienced underwriter with strong interpersonal skills, a focus on supporting the intermediary sales channel and looking for an opportunity to grow in a fast-paced, friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

What you’ll be doing

Assessment of transactions within your lending mandate or for recommendation to a higher mandate holder where required.

Build strong and lasting relationships with our introductory sources to help them and SME Lending support UK SME’s

Work closely with our introducers to structure proposals that work for both customer and SME Lending.

Speaking with brokers on a daily basis to maximise opportunities and get to the right decision as quickly as possible.

What you’ll bring to the team

Strong commercial lending experience in both secured and unsecured lending

Demonstrate an understanding of funding a wide range of assets and lending structures.

Ability to work in a direct and broker origination model to provide primary support to our brokers as well as SME Lending’s internal and external sales teams and understand the different dynamics.

Communicate professionally with brokers and customers both verbally and face to face.

Good written skills in order to produce credit submissions for overview by higher mandate holders.

Paragon perks

• Generous holiday allowance, with a day off for your birthday!
• Paid community volunteering
• Company-wide, profit-sharing bonus
• Pension plan - we’ll contribute up to 10% of your annual salary
• Life assurance and personal accident cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. Emerging from the pandemic, most teams are moving towards hybrid working, splitting their week between the office and home.

A full time role with core hours of 08.30 to 17.00 Monday to Friday. We operate a hybrid working model with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week and an ability to work from home.

Be yourself

We welcome diversity and we care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Formed in 2020, our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We offer a range of support to help you care for your wellbeing, from our free Employee Assistance Programme to our qualified Wellbeing team who are on hand to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.

Be a part of it!

Our employees tell us that the best thing about Paragon is the people! So, if you’re looking for an energetic, friendly team with a great set of values to help you take the next step in your career, apply now and let’s grow together!