Commercial Underwriting Team Leader

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Yazoo Recruitment Specialists Full time

Senior Commercial Underwriter with minimum 2 years Team Leader experience and minimum 5 years’ commercial underwriting experience in a Broker environment, required to oversee and guide a team of commercial underwriters for this national Broker Firm based in Cape Town CBD.
- Short Term Insurance related qualifications essential - NQF4 / NQF5 or similar
- RE5 essential
- Minimum 5 years commercial underwriting experience essential
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in a Team Leader role required
- Previous experience in a Broker environment preferred
- Oversee and guide a team of commercial underwriters, ensuring high standard of underwriting, compliance and client service
- Accurate and professional communication with all stakeholders
- Address client complaints
- Generate reports and conduct quality assessment
- Develop training material and procedures
- Renewals and endorsements
- Re Brokes
- Age Analysis
- Cancellations
- Refunds
- Invoicing
- Client retention

Recognising that diversity is key to excellence, our client especially encourages members of designated groups to apply.

1. That you have read and understood our POPI Policy.

2. That you have no objection to us retaining your personal information in our database for future matching and will notify us in writing should you wish to remove your personal information from our database.

3. Should suitable opportunities arise we will contact you and request your consent to submit your CV to a specific client for a specific purpose.

4. That the information you have provided to us is true, correct and up to date.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent



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