New Job Role

Underwriting Team Leader

We’re looking for a passionate Underwriting Team Leader to manage our Underwriting and Payouts teams — someone who can inspire, mentor, and drive excellence while acting as the department SME.

As an Underwriting Team Leader, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the quality, consistency, and regulatory compliance of our underwriting decisions. You’ll lead a team of Underwriters and Payout Agents, supporting them through coaching, training, structured development, and day-to-day guidance.

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What You'll Be Doing

✅  Assess complex HP credit applications within delegated authority.

✅ Provide recommendations or escalate higher-risk cases when necessary.

✅ Ensure decision quality aligns with policies, affordability requirements, and FCA regulations.

✅ Team Management & Development.

✅ Lead, mentor, and support Underwriters and Payout Agents.

✅ Deliver structured training, onboarding, and ongoing coaching.

✅ Conduct regular 1:1s and performance reviews.

✅ Assist with recruitment and succession planning.

About You 🌟

We’re looking for someone who brings expertise, confidence, and a passion for developing others.

You'll likely have:

 💭 Minimum 2 years of underwriting experience in financial services.

🚗 Motor Finance experience preferred.

⏰ Previous line management or strong mentoring experience.

👏 A desire to take on a bigger challenge or step into leadership.

💜 Approachable, supportive leadership style.

✅ Strong commercial awareness and confident decision-making.

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Why This Role?  

🔄 Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, and Data teams.

🫡 Represent Underwriting in cross-functional projects and working groups.​

🔎 Identify opportunities to refine underwriting and payout processes.

💪 Take on responsibility in a team leader role.

🎁 What We Offer In Return

Free daily breakfast, snacks and quick lunches

Stay fuelled and focused without spending a penny
Free daily breakfast, snacks and quick lunches

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

With an option to increase with service
25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension scheme

Plan for your future
Pension scheme

Quarterly team takeouts

Enjoy time away from the desk together
Quarterly team takeouts

Employee awards schemes

We're committed to recognising your impact
Employee awards schemes

Long service and life event bonuses

We celebrate milestones with you
Long service and life event bonuses

Access to our Health & Finance Support Service (EAP)

Helping you get peace of mind
Access to our Health & Finance Support Service (EAP)

Supportive and inclusive culture

Ensuring your voice matters
Supportive and inclusive culture

🌟 About Marsh Finance

We’re a well-established and growing company in the car finance sector with a reputation for doing things the right way. Our people live and breathe our values, from customer focus to collaboration, innovation, integrity, empowerment and inspiring leadership. If you share those values and want to work somewhere where people matter, we’d love to hear from you.

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