Underwriter

Underwriter

Underwriter:

As an Underwriter for our Property and Casualty department, the successful candidate will liaise with clients, prospective clients, and brokers to create and maintain a positive relationship while helping to educate them on our products and services. They will be responsible for managing retention targets for renewals, underwriting risks, providing customer service including creating quotations and accurately adding and processing new business and renewals while performing other policy administrative duties.

Responsibilities

• Creating and processing business quotations for motor, homeowner, commercial and all other property and casualty lines of business within authority limits.
• Processing changes to existing policies (Direct clients/Brokers)
• Business development activities such as cross selling insurance products to current and potential clients.
• Liaise with insurance brokers to educate them on our products and services.
• Follow up with clients regarding any outstanding documentation, renewals, in a professional manner.
• Input of documentation on underwriting system for new business, renewals, and changes by way of endorsements etc.
• Renew policy(s) and process renewal documentation once instructions are received.
• The issuance of complete and accurate documentation e.g., Policy schedules and endorsements; payment plan agreement for all clients.
• Ensure that all work is completed and handed in for authorization within the predefined period.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities that may be assigned by Management from time to time.

Experience

• Professional Accreditation in insurance and/or Certified Insurance Practitioner (Cert CII or its equivalent)
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the insurance industry with a minimum of 2 years’ Commercial Underwriting experience.
• Knowledge of Reinsurance (Local Facultative/ Reinsurance Contracts)
• Strong ability to translate complex insurance policies and underwriting procedures to sell insurance to customers.
• Proven ability to learn company’s policies and underwriting procedures.
• Past work experience producing underwriting reports.
• Experience using Microsoft suite and Insurance software.
• Must be accurate and detail oriented, good written and oral communications skills are essential.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work with internal teams and external clients.

We will only be contacting those candidates who have been shortly listed for this role, we thank all candidates for their expressed interest and time invested to apply