Underwriting Clerk: Marine

**What will you do?**
- This career opportunity is available at **Santam Specialist Solutions, Marine for an Underwriting Clerk**, who will be based in **Sandton.**

**What will make you successful in this role?**
- Dealing with issuance of new policies/ policy maintenance/ renewal / any other policy related concerns.
- Assisting to resolve all administration queries within required timeframe and compliance requirements.
- Undertaking client follow-ups with unpaid premiums.
- Managing client expectation on expected turnaround times for submitted requests.
- Adhering to underwriting criteria and Business unit requirements.
- Assisting in implementing solutions for improvement.
- Standing in for team members should they be absent or on leave during busy periods or absence of key resources, assisting where required.
- Achieve monthly key performance metrics and adherence to work force management.
- Any additional duties as assigned from Management.

**Qualification and Experience**
- Matric/ Grade 12
- 60 commercial lines FAIS credits
- A relevant insurance related qualification (e.g. NQF lev 4) would be advantageous.
- Proven work experience in Marine (advantageous) policy administration and underwriting within the short-term insurance industry.
- Minimum of 1 years’ experience in Marine short-term insurance.
- Knowledge of Reinsurance

**Core Competencies**
- Cultivates innovation - Contributing dependently- Customer focus - Contributing dependently- Drives results - Contributing dependently- Collaborates - Contributing dependently- Being resilient - Contributing dependently**About The Company**
- 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 centered on our delivery of insurance good and proper. We're about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.- At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the divisions Employment Equity targets.