Technical Underwriter

**Technical Undewriter - Nelspruit**

**Required Knowledge and Experience**

Minimum of 5 years’ related experience
Sound understanding of commercial and industrial and personal lines short term insurance
Educational Requirements

Matric
NQF 5 Insurance qualification or similar
RE 5 & FAIS Compliant

**Role Objectives**
Maintain the standards of the underwriting department thus enhancing the image of the company. Ensure all administrative functions within the underwriting team are adhered to by verifying rating principles, legal requirements, reinsurance requirements and mandates
Process all complex and referral business
Strong focus on reinsurance placement and renewal business
Process all technical underwriting tasks assigned, within the set standards required by the company thus contributing to the productivity of the underwriting department as set out within parameters delegated to you from time to time
Ensure strong working relationship between all stakeholders

**Key Responsibilities**
Renewals: Support Renewal Team & Broker Consultants to meet goals for volume and value of quality new business quoted and written within company guidelines, by managing large renewals as mandated by branch management
Processing: Ad-hoc audit and monitoring of underwriting processing in accordance with company guidelines
Complete transactions within delegated authority limits and within set standards/guidelines and service level agreements
Quality assessment: Assessment of all high-risk policy schedules. Assessment of all brokers issued policies and the management of said brokers in terms of non-compliance. Assist with head office referrals. Ensure that undesirable risks are declined
Underwriting audits: Assist with the co-ordination of all underwriting audits, both internal and external through scheduling, follow up of audit requirements and document management/record keeping
Quality control: Quality standards to be adhered to at all times. Tracking of rework through keeping an up-to-date register of all reworks, in order to determine training needs within the underwriting team
Customer service: To ensure that customer service standards are maintained in accordance with service level agreements and to assist with technical advice and other assistance over and above the normal underwriting duties