Underwriter

2 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Sanlam Full time

**Who are we?**

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia. Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centred on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper.

**What will you do?**

The position requires of the incumbent to embrace a culture of learning.**What will make you successful in this role?**

This job family stream is concerned with managing risk by providing specialist technical underwriting ability and skills. The underwriting role is a highly technical role with strong client focus. The primary focus is on new business acquisition and renewal underwriting to maintain profitability. The incumbent will be responsible for managing risk administered on external systems, to achieve, maintain and grow profitability of the Echelon Portfolio.**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- Effective underwriting of complex risks.
- Identifying re-insurance and taking appropriate action.
- Providing quality and correct feedback on high level technical queries.
- Capturing of new quotes and Quote follow ups
- Amendments to existing quotes
- Amendments to existing business
- Issuing of new business
- Cancellations & Retention of business
- Weekly Corrective Action/Policy Screening
- Monthly multi-claimant action
- Renewals
- Qualifications and Knowledge**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- RE accreditation
- Grade 12 or equivalent
- FAIS compliance - 60 credits on NQF level 4

**EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE**:

- Minimum of 5 years Personal lines Underwriting experience in a risk management environment.
- Computer literacy (Ability to record, analyse and present data in Excel)
- Relevant system knowledge: Policy Centre, Outlook, Word, Excel, Pursuit or Tial an advantage**.**

**SKILLS**
- Delivery and results orientation
- Attention to detail - strong analytic skills required to identify and mitigate risk
- Problem solving
- Producing creative solutions
- Adapting to changing circumstances
- Performing under pressure
- Deciding & initiating action
- Building networks and good relations
- Negotiating and getting agreement
- Building networks and ability to maintain relationships
- Goal setting and prioritising
- Effective Communication skills

**Core Competencies**
- Collaborates
- Cultivates Innovation
- Flexible and Adaptable
- Drives Results
- Client Focus
- Profitable underwriting
- Client Service
- Quality Management
- Reporting

**Build a successful career with us**
- We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters - Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.**Turnaround time**Our commitment to transformation**

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

  • Underwriter

    4 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description Dear Future, Underwriter The role requires you to provide an effective and efficient service to clients by obtaining the correct medical and setting of underwriting requirements telephonically, that need to be referred to a Senior Underwriter for sign-off. Facilitation of such requirements related to new and existing business Are you...

  • Underwriter

    3 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description Dear Future, Underwriter The role requires you to provide an effective and efficient service to clients by obtaining the correct medical and setting of underwriting requirements telephonically, that need to be referred to a Senior Underwriter for sign-off. Facilitation of such requirements related to new and existing business. Are you...

  • Underwriting Specialist

    2 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description To promote, develop and implement the Company's underwriting philosophy and strategy through the successful delivery of a variety of underwriting functions to maximize performance and achieve company objectives. - Provide leadership, support, training, guidance and development to the medical underwriting team to ensure that the team complies...

  • Underwriting Specialist

    5 days ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description Dear Future, Underwriting Specialist Your role requires you to provide leadership, support, training, guidance and development to the medical underwriting team to ensure that the team complies with goals, objectives and standards of the organisation in order to meet customer satisfaction, deadlines and manage the risk of the...

  • Senior Underwriter

    3 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa Ultra Personnel Full time

    Degree or similar 6+ years underwriting experience in long term insurance 4-5 years insurance industry experience Sound medical & life assurance knowledge Fluent in English both written and verbal Good computer knowledge - MS Outlook, Excel and Word are necessary **Process optimization and efficiencies** To underwrite cases within the agreed service level...

  • Senior Underwriter

    2 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa PPS Recruitment Full time

    **Job Advert Summary**: This role reports to the Executive Underwriter. The Senior Life Underwriter is responsible for underwriting life, disability, critical illness, sickness and permanent incapacity cover within agreed underwriting authority limits. The incumbent will deal with technical and complex underwriting queries and/or complaints providing an...

  • Underwriting Specialist

    6 days ago

    Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Telesure Investment Holdings Pty Full time

    Job Overview:At Telesure Investment Holdings, we are seeking a skilled Underwriter to join our team. As an Underwriter, you will be responsible for designing and implementing technical underwriting frameworks that foster superior risk selection, streamlined processing, loss ratio management, and underwriting profitability.Key Responsibilities:Contribute to...

  • Junior Underwriter

    2 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa PPS Recruitment Full time

    **Job Advert Summary**: This role reports to the Team Manager: Underwriting. The Junior Life Underwriter is responsible for underwriting life, disability, critical illness, sickness and permanent incapacity cover within agreed underwriting authority limits. The incumbent will deal with technical underwriting queries and/or complaints providing an excellent...

  • Senior Underwriter

    1 week ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa PPS Group Full time

    **Main duties and responsibilities**: Process optimization and efficiencies: - Underwrite life, disability, critical illness, sickness and permanent incapacity cover within the agreed underwriting authority limits - Underwrite cases within the agreed service level agreements (SLAs) - Achieve and maintain standards in underwriting Life - Conduct regular...

  • Underwriter

    7 days ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa Santam Full time

    Who are we? Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia. Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centred...

  • Life Underwriter

    4 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description Dear Future, Life Underwriter Your role requires you to provide leadership, support, training, guidance and development to the medical underwriting team to ensure that the team complies with goals, objectives and standards of the organisation in order to meet customer satisfaction, deadlines and manage the risk of the organisation. Are you...

  • Underwriting Specialist

    4 days ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description To provide leadership, support, training, guidance and development to the medical underwriting team to ensure that the team complies with goals, objectives and standards of the organisation in order to meet customer satisfaction, deadlines and manage the risk of the organisation. Hello Future Underwriting Specialist Welcome to FNB, the...

  • Senior Underwriter

    2 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa PPS Recruitment Full time

    **Job Advert Summary**: This role reports to the Executive Underwriter. The Senior Life Underwriter is responsible for underwriting life, disability, critical illness, sickness and permanent incapacity cover within agreed underwriting authority limits. The incumbent will deal with technical and complex underwriting queries and/or complaints providing an...

  • Life Underwriter

    5 days ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description Dear Future, Underwriter Are you someone who can: - Manage medical, occupation, part - time activities, travel & Financial Underwriting standard and substandard cases for: Disability and Critical Illness Underwriting, Income Protection, Business Cover, Group Risk, Alterations & Queries - Ensure placement of cases according to reinsurance...

  • Life Underwriter

    7 days ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description Dear Future, Underwriter Are you someone who can: - Manage medical, occupation, part - time activities, travel & Financial Underwriting standard and substandard cases for: Disability and Critical Illness Underwriting, Income Protection, Business Cover, Group Risk, Alterations & Queries - Ensure placement of cases according to reinsurance...

  • Life Underwriter

    4 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description Dear Future, Life Underwriter Are you someone who can: - Manage medical, occupation, part - time activities, travel & Financial Underwriting standard and substandard cases for: Disability and Critical Illness Underwriting, Income Protection, Business Cover, Group Risk, Alterations & Queries - Ensure placement of cases according to...

  • Life Underwriter

    2 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    Job Description Dear Future, Life Underwriter Are you someone who can: - Manage medical, occupation, part - time activities, travel & Financial Underwriting standard and substandard cases for: Disability and Critical Illness Underwriting, Income Protection, Business Cover, Group Risk, Alterations & Queries - Ensure placement of cases according to...

  • Technical Underwriter

    3 days ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa Six Sense Full time

    Gauteng, JHB - Northern Suburbs - Annually Cost To Company (Market related) A well-established short term insurer seeking to appoint Technical Underwriter The Technical Underwriter will perform technical underwriting tasks and participate in the implementation of underwriting terms and conditions for policy holders and implementation of rules and...

  • Chief Underwriter

    3 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

    About us, purpose, experience and qualifications **about us**: - make a promise - be deeply invested - value our differences - build trust, not territory - have courage - always do the right thing **purpose**: - Responsible for the management, planning and control of the underwriting division. Applied knowledge and expertise in systems, market interface...

  • Technical Underwriter

    2 weeks ago

    Johannesburg, South Africa Six Sense Full time

    Gauteng, JHB - Northern Suburbs - Annually Cost To Company (Market related) A well-established short term insurer seeking to appoint Technical Underwriter The Technical Underwriter will perform technical underwriting tasks and participate in the implementation of underwriting terms and conditions for policy holders and implementation of rules and...