Underwriting Analyst

1 week ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Sanlam Full time

**What will you do?**
- Underwriting Services in its Personal Lines Underwriting team has a position available for an UNDERWRITING ANALYST who will be based Hill on Empire, Parktown, Johannesburg.**What will make you successful in this role?**
- The purpose of the role is to support Portfolio Admin & Outsourced Business with:
- Monthly processing of renewals for all Outsourced Business Binderholders
- Manage renewal data cleansing and quality control.
- Recommend and communicate data clean-up actions to Binderholders
- Data modelling - enhancing and use of current models
- Broker renewal performance analysis
- Assist with renewal automation projects
- Continuous enhancement of the UW segmentation model
- Alignment of renewal rules with rating changes and market forces
- Identification of performance and growth corrective actions
- Drive renewal implementation and monitor results thereof.
- On-site renewal audits from time to time
- Renewal report preparation and presentation to management.
- Analysis of Outsourced Business Portfolios and presentation of findings and recommendations to relevant stakeholders.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Degree in Insurance & Risk Management or Statistics or similar disciplines would be an advantage.
- Expert knowledge in MS Excel including use of advanced excel formulas
- PowerPoint presentation skills
- 2 to 3 years general insurance experience will be an advantage
- Experience in working with large data sets
- Knowledge of data mining techniques
- Short term insurance pricing knowledge would be an advantage

**Knowledge and Skills**
- High analytical thinking
- Ability to grasp concepts quickly
- Exceptional problem solving skills
- Strong ability to manipulate and interpret data
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Proactive and self-motivated
- Ability to perform under pressure
- Time management and focussed delivery of deadlines
- Good planning, analytical and decision-making skills
- A good team player - integrates and shares knowledge and skills
- Displays keen insight and intuition

**Competencies**
- Client focus
- Collaborative
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Innovative
- Drive results
- Action orientated
- Analytical thinking
- Information seeking
- Data Analysis
- Data modelling


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