Internship

Underwriting Summer Internships at Global Specialty (Re)Insurer, Canopius!

Financial Services
Salary: 
London Living Wage
London
2164
Position Start Date: 
28th July 2025
Application deadline:
02/05/2025

Company: Canopius 

Location: 22 Bishopsgate, London

Roles: Underwriting Internship

Salary: London Living Wage

Start Date: Monday 28th July 2025

Deadline to Apply: Friday 2nd May 2025 

 

Who are Canopius?

Canopius is a global specialty lines re(insurer) and one of the largest underwriters in the Lloyd’s market. Our offices in the UK, the US, Bermuda, Singapore and Australia provide world-class underwriting coverage in more than 130 countries.

Company values:

  • Empowered

  • Ambitious

  • Collaborative

  • Accountable

  • Proactive

  • Inclusive

 

What are the opportunities?

Canopius has four fantastic Underwriting Internship opportunities open to all students, whether you are a school leaver, a current undergradaute, graduate, or a career changer! The key thing is that you are curious about getting into the insurance industry and widening your experience. The Summer Internships will be in one of the following four areas:

 Credit & Political Risk

  • Canopius’ global political risk, trade, and credit underwriting team provides coverage for losses due to government action, political unrest, and economic turmoil. They offer specialised services to secure overseas assets and protect financial payments. Their crisis management products include sabotage, terrorism, and kidnap and ransom, supported by expert risk consultants. They lead and co-lead credit and political risk placements, working closely with Lloyd’s brokers. The trade political risk team focuses on indemnifying financial losses in foreign countries.

Accident & Health

  • The Accident and Health team provides international insurance solutions for groups and individuals across various trades and occupational classes. They offer coverage for group and individual risks, aviation, sports disability, medical expenses, high-risk personal accidents, ship/yacht crew, key person insurance, occupational accidents, business travel, and credit card insurance. Additionally, they handle reinsurance, including facultative excess of loss and quota share. Their specialists tailor benefits to meet diverse client needs, working closely with Lloyd’s brokers to provide appropriate products.

Marine, Hull, Liability & Cargo

  • Canopius provides marine liability insurance through Lloyd’s in London and operations in the US, Singapore, and Australia. Their team has in-depth knowledge of vessels, cargo, and ports, supported by a dedicated in-house claims team for seamless support. They pride themselves on high levels of service and technical expertise, offering both standard and tailored insurance solutions.

Portfolio Solutions

  • Canopius Portfolio Solutions offers follow capacity to multi-class portfolios in the global (re)insurance market, supporting key trading partners with stable capacity and streamlined processing. They provide meaningful capacity across multiple territories and swift underwriting decisions. Their portfolio solutions include various structures such as binders, delegated authority arrangements, e-traded underwriting, line slips, MGAs, preferred panels, quota shares, and market trackers.

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Requirements

Academic experience:

  • UK GCSE maths and English at grade B/grade 6 (or international equivalent).

  •  Candidates must be authorised to work in the UK (Canopius is unable to offer Visa sponsorship for this position).

  • Some experience with Microsoft software, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

  • Comfortable working in teams alongside people with a range of skill sets and experience.

  • A positive attitude and desire to learn, develop and grow as an individual.

 

Behaviours:

  • Collaboration and teamwork - Works effectively within a team/project or other work groups, or those outside formal line of authority to accomplish goals. Actively participates as a member of a team; develops and builds cohesive team relations to produce required outputs; possesses knowledge and understanding of peer’s work.

  • Continuous improvement - Analyses current and future state business requirements and identify strategies to continuously improve products, services or processes. Guide and inspire others to achieve results to enhance efficiency, quality and consistency.

  • Innovation - Creates, develops and implements new ideas to enhance new or improved processes, systems, solutions, products or services; tries different and novel ways to deal with problems and opportunities.

 

Please note that CV attachment for this position is optional.