Underwriting Specialist

7 months 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 home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our team in Life Assurance (Underwriting), you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

Are you someone who can:

- Assess the medical, financial and occupational underwriting risk of the organization
- Create business practice guidelines and review of underwriting philosophies and standards
- Onboard, Train, mentor and coach junior and intermediate underwriters
- Train and support advisory and call center teams
- Conduct periodic quality assurance reviews for in-force policies, as well as limit reviews for underwriters.
- Assess complex and commercial cases
- Create, implement, review, test and maintain Medical underwriting rules and questions
- Maintain relationship management with re-insurance treaty partners
- Implement Re-insurer guidelines and requirements.
- Review and ratification of underwriting business processes to the executive team and product development input
- Provide retrospective underwriting decisions at claims stage
- Have medical underwriting experience
- Have a minimum of 5 Years in a senior underwriting role
- Have Re-insurance experience would be advantageous

You will have access to:

- Opportunities to network and collaborate
- A challenging working environment
- Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are:

- Adaptable and curious
- Able to analyze complex data sets
- Able to thrive in a collaborative environment

Job Details

Application Closing Date

17/02/24



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