Sr. Project Coordinator, Business Operations (Finance)

Position Summary

Allied World seeks an individual to serve in the role of Sr. Project Coordinator to support the implementation and ongoing management of North America underwriting platforms. This role will assist in coordinating initiatives, tracking progress, and ensuring smooth communication between underwriting, technology teams, and operations.

Responsibilities include:

• Project Coordination
  • Support the planning and execution of Underwriting transformation initiatives
  • Address Underwriting issues, vendor questions, or technological risks to mitigate impact to project timelines
  • Recognize and escalate issues that occur during project execution by tracking action items, risks, and dependencies across cross functional teams
• Team Support
  • Work closely with underwriting, technology, and vendor partners to support business requirements gathering and testing
  • Assist with scheduling meetings, maintaining project plans, and documenting key decisions
  • Prepare status reports, dashboards, and stakeholder updates
  • Identify and deliver on opportunities for continuous process improvement
• Process & Documentation
  • Maintain project artifacts, including meeting notes, requirements documents, and issue logs
  • Ensure updates are reflected in Jira, Confluence, or other project management tools
  • Help support adoption activities, including training coordination and user communications
  • Report on project metrics including progress, resource utilization, risks and issues

Qualifications

• Education, Skills, and Experience
  • Knowledge of Commercial Property and Casualty products and processes
  • Minimum of three (3) years of experience in technical product delivery within commercial insurance
  • Prior experience in underwriting systems implementation, management, and change support, with preferences for experience with Appian or equivalent low code product
  • Project leadership using Agile methodology, with hands-on experience using tools like Jira
  • Proven experience in project management
  • Knowledge of SDLC, integrations (e.g. REST APIs, AWS, etc.) and DevOps practices
  • Ability to translate insurance business needs into technology requirements
  • Experience managing release cycles, issue tracking and vendors
  • Strong communication, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills

• Education, Skills, and Experience
  • Knowledge of Commercial Property and Casualty products and processes
  • Minimum of three (3) years of experience in technical product delivery within commercial insurance
  • Prior experience in underwriting systems implementation, management, and change support, with preferences for experience with Appian or equivalent low code product
  • Project leadership using Agile methodology, with hands-on experience using tools like Jira
  • Proven experience in project management
  • Knowledge of SDLC, integrations (e.g. REST APIs, AWS, etc.) and DevOps practices
  • Ability to translate insurance business needs into technology requirements
  • Experience managing release cycles, issue tracking and vendors
  • Strong communication, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills

About Fairfax
Fairfax is a holding company which, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and investment management. 

 

Allied World

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd, through its subsidiaries, is a global provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions. We operate under the brand Allied World and have supported clients, cedents and trading partners with thoughtful service and meaningful coverages since 2001. We are a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Limited and benefit from a strong capital base and a worldwide network of affiliated entities that allow us to think and respond in non-traditional ways. 

Our generous benefits package includes Health, Dental and Disability Insurance, a company match 401k plan, and Group Term Life Insurance. Allied World is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without consideration of any disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.