Underwriting Clerk: Marine

What will you do?

A position has become available within Santam Marine for an Underwriting Clerk and will be based in Cape Town. What will make you successful in this role?

**Underwriting**:
Underwrite and manage a portfolio of existing and new business, which may be complex in nature, including all tasks associated therewith but not limited Underwriting Governance which includes detailed risk evaluation and assessment, coverage and exposure analysis, detailed claims analysis and wording review & negotiations within underwriting authority.
Refer and acquire sign-off relating to matters falling outside of own authority, in accordance with authority matrix.
Adherence at all times to the authority matrix, departmental protocols and procedures, including Underwriting Governance provisions.
Detailed explanations regarding changes with respect to terms/ underwriting stance.

Client Liaison (Internal and External)
Respond to queries and resolve to the satisfaction of the affected parties within the scope of authority and / or responsibility.
Continuously monitor quality and accuracy of the documents and KIT/M-file records produced by the system
Get involved in ongoing system testing

Reinsurance gap exposure management
Follow up on quotations and renewals.
Sign and check policy documentation.
Attend to daily administrative tasks in accordance with organisational standards, processes and procedures.
Adhere to organisation’s standards, processes and processes as it relates to underwriting governance.

**Reporting**:
Feedback on findings and priority remedial actions required
Assistance with risk and compliance reporting and submissions

**Stakeholder Management**:
Maintain and develop effective relationships with key internal stakeholders Qualification and Experience

Matric
A tertiary qualification in Insurance and Risk management is preferred
3-5 years marine underwriting experience Skills

Core technical skills in the areas of underwriting, reinsurance, and risk management
Strong interpersonal, facilitation and verbal and written communication skills
Ability to self-manage while managing assigned teams and projects.
Ability to work appropriately with sensitive and confidential information
Demonstrate passion and commitment for excellence
High attention to detail
Approachable and customer/ service-orientated 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.