QBE Insurance Hiring for Graduate at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

QBE GRADUATE PROGRAM 2024

SYDNEY | HYBRID WORKING

Graduate Program Overview

18 months | 3 different teams | 6-month experiences

Our award-winning graduate program has been running for many years with huge success. Graduates are hired as permanent employees, with the first 18-months spent on the graduate program experiencing three different teams across our business, known as ‘rotations’. In addition to three rotations, graduates progress through a structured learning and development plan, have access to senior leaders, and spend time with their graduate cohort forming meaningful and long-lasting connections.

Our graduate program streams include:

• Finance*
• Actuarial*
• Insurance underwriting
• Technology
• Risk & Compliance
• Transformation
• Recruitment has already been completed for finance and actuarial graduates.

Insurance underwriting

Insurance underwriting is a highly technical skill set that is critical to our business. This graduate program stream focuses on business insurance, which can be incredibly complex. Businesses of all sizes across many industries present their own unique risks and you will learn what to consider before we agree to offer insurance protection to a business customer.

Underwriting is unique in that it offers the best of both worlds – a role where you can build strong technical skills through analysis and underwriting practices, and advanced communications skills as your success in this role will rely on effectively working with many different stakeholders.

As an insurance underwriting graduate, you’ll work in three different underwriting teams, experiencing different lines of insurance and different types of customers across many industries.

Technology

Our Technology stream has been designed for aspiring developers with many different developer angles to explore. As a global company we span a large technology landscape which means there are vast opportunities on offer for our graduates. These experiences could include digital developer, application developer, integration developer, and data developer. Additionally, we have numerous other avenues to explore within technology which include tech architecture, project management as well as risk management. As we are in an exciting time of modernising our business, there is no better moment to join us in our journey to become a future fit and modern insurer.

Risk & Compliance

Our vision is to be the most consistent and innovative risk partner. To achieve this vision, we must have highly sophisticated risk and compliance practices ourselves. Our risk graduate program stream offers you the full spectrum of risk and compliance, from a front-line operational perspective where different business areas will present their own unique risks, to an entire organisation perspective in our global policies, frameworks, regulator obligations and more. Because managing risk is so crucial to the success of a business, the knowledge and skills you build in this program stream will likely act as a foundation and support for the rest of your career.

Transformation

Our Australia and Pacific Island division (AUSPAC) is currently on a 5-year modernisation journey so a role in Transformation is an exciting place to start your career to build technical and soft skills within business analysis, project and/or change management. This space will provide you with a high level of exposure across multiple business units, all of which have varying needs with no two projects ever being the same. Transformation graduate rotations are flexible within our AUSPAC division and wider business, including our Group head office teams. Some of these opportunities involve working with our international colleagues in North America, Asia and Europe further expanding your skills and experience.

GRADUATE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

Your skill and career development are a key focus for the entire graduate program and beyond. Some of the ways you will learn include:

• Experiencing our business from three different perspectives across your graduate rotations.
• Formal classroom style training, always with a practical application.
• Informal learning through cohort activities and initiatives.
• Digital learning pathways designed for the graduate cohort and your program stream more specifically.
• Unlimited access to digital learning content, many courses with official certifications.
• Your support network: graduate program lead, graduate buddy, rotation leaders, technical buddies, graduate networks (program stream and wider cohort).
• Networking and public speaking opportunities.

About Qbe

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. 

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. And our people will be at the centre of our success.

We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than more than 11,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too?

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ well being program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 12 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network
• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

REWARDS & RECOGNITION

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
• Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Platinum Employer since 2022 – the definitive national LGBTIQ+ benchmark for workplace inclusion recognizing employers achieving Gold status for 4 or more years
• Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
• Family First accredited employer since 2021

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for our 2024 graduate program, you must have:

• Completed tertiary education in the last 2 years, graduating end of 2021, 2022 or 2023.
• Unrestricted working rights in Australia until at least February 2027.
• Submitted a resume and academic transcript with your application.

Not all program streams require a technical field of study, so we encourage you to submit an application for your preferred stream or contact the graduate recruitment team to discuss further on [email protected].

APPLY NOW

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment. Please remember to submit your resume and academic transcript with your application.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at [email protected]

Application Close Date: 29/07/2023 11:59 PM

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click “Apply” and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.