What it does: Underwriting Agencies of Australia (UAA) specializes in insurance cover for industrial and commercial plant and equipment, particularly Mobile Plant and Equipment Insurance.
Mission: Our focus is on developing long-term relationships built on mutual respect and reliability.
Size and presence: We have around 50 employees in Australia and New Zealand.
Best known for: Underwriting Agencies of Australia (UAA) understands the importance of protecting your assets and provides insurance solutions to safeguard your mobile plant and machinery.
The good bits: Safe and secure job.
The not-so-good bits: Work-life balance is not that great.
The Underwriting Agencies Council is the representative organization for Australia's underwriting agencies. UAC has more than 100 corporate members, representing the vast majority of Australian underwriting agencies and several in New Zealand. Membership is also open to non-voting business services and affiliate partners. Underwriting agencies manage insurance transactions on behalf of their principal insurers. They frequently operate in specialist, niche markets, offering an array of insurance products that may not be available from other sources. The agency sector's annual GWP is estimated at more than $3.5 billion
The CEO of Underwriting Agencies Australia, Mr. Michael Murphy said of the program:
“As the largest specialist insurer of mobile plant and equipment in Australia and with more than 70% of our clients in regional Australia, we have always been looking to partner with a quality organization to work up a specific program to support and unearth great indigenous talent.
“We believe that the CCAS is the perfect partnership and that our goals are aligned. We are delighted to support this program, the first of its type for academies of sport. We know this will be highly successful and is a small way to say thank you to the communities that support us.”
UAA also provides various sponsorships and donations to a range of other sporting and charity organizations. UAA is a major sponsor of the Burleigh Bears Rugby League Club, based on the Gold Coast which competes in Queensland’s top rugby league competition, the Queensland Intrust Super Cup.
All our branch offices provide full sales and underwriting facilities providing local expertise. We use state-of-the-art technology and quality control procedures to ensure an efficient and timely response to client needs.
UAA’s world-class products and expertise have helped facilitate our successful and rapid global expansion into several emerging markets. This expansion has added diversified revenue streams as well as utilized the valuable reputation embedded in our business over many years.
⛔ Bonus annual leave
✅ Bonus parental leave
✅ Unpaid extended leave
✅ Permanent employee
✅ Signing bonus
✅ Annual bonus
⛔ Stock options
⛔ Full remote work
✅ Partial remote work
✅ Flexible working hours
⛔ Child care
✅ Free gym
⛔ Pet-friendly office
✅ Mental health days
✅ Hospital
✅ Outpatient
✅ Dental
✅ Maternity
⛔ Free breakfast
⛔ Free lunch
✅ Free tea & coffee
✅ Free snacks
⛔Free dinner
The Central Coast Academy of Sport (CCAS) and UAA have partnered to develop and refine an Indigenous Talent Identification Program for athletes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. This program is designed to encourage an active lifestyle and provide assistance in advancing opportunities in sport and will now be expanded across another five regional Academy of Sport catchment regions in NSW. This means that a total of 650+ indigenous athletes will gain exposure to the talent identification day and of those attending, 132 indigenous athletes will receive fully-funded scholarships provided and supported by UAA.