Underwriter

**Job Advert Summary**:
Helloan exciting new opportunity has just become available in our Hollard Insure, Construction and Engineering. We are looking to recruit an **Underwriter.**

**Role Objectives**:

- Underwriting Risk Management, Portfolio Management, Quality Assurance, Policy Administration, servicing and retention of Construction & Engineering insurance clients whilst ensuring a balance between the company’s underwriting policy and risk attitude and Risk & Insurance needs of clients in compliance with Financial Services Regulations.
- **Key Responsibilities**:

- Evaluating Information on insurance proposals/quotations or policies to Determine Compliance with Company Policy and Risk Attitude
- Processing risk and insurance Information and Performing Administrative Activities
- Analyzing Risk/Claims Data or Information
- Making Underwriting Decisions and Solving Risk Exposure Problems
- Communicating and maintaining business relationships with Persons Outside Organization
- Issuing New Policy Documents
- Perform policy and Portfolio Management/ Administration Duties
- Facilitate and Manage Renewal Process
- Resolve queries and complaints, Work in teams and Generate reports
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
- Perform Policy Quality Assurance
- Employee Growth: Take responsibility for your own career growth and have regular discussions with the relevant role players.

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:

- At least 3 years Engineering experience
- 5 years Corporate/Commercial Underwriting
- Underwriting Servicing and Sales experience
- Underwriting knowledge (ability to interpret policy wording, understanding how claims information impacts on underwriting)
- Broker Service and Relationship Management experience
- Product knowledge of Construction and Engineering insurance
- Sound knowledge of MS Office (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Business writing skills, Risk Analysis
- Telephonic communication skills, Listening & Negotiation skills
- Time management and Process Management

**Educational Requirements**:

- Matric
- NQF 5 Insurance Qualification/Diploma/IISA
- Knowledge and experience on fundamentals of Engineering Business, product knowledge, policy wordings, market pricing and reinsurance.
- Diploma/ Degree or Certificate in Engineering; Legal/Law; Risk Management; Reinsurance; Advance Insurance with Engineering

**All Hollard appointments are made in line with our DEI policy.**
- Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating and enabling a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of care, dignity and inclusion.?We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including, but not limited to disability, race, religion, ethnicity, culture, language and social origin, gender diversity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity). These grounds enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone._
- We proudly promote the “Hollard Way we work,” which is a combination hybrid work environment at this time.? We offer flexibility in our work as far as possible, dependent on the nature of the role. Even if you don’t meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply_