Underwriting -specialist Motor

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Bryte Insurance Full time

Your role

As an underwriter, your primary responsibility will be to effectively analyse and underwrite both new and existing policies within delegated authority limits. Your goal will be to achieve agreed levels of underwriting performance while ensuring high-quality service and solutions for brokers and customers.

Key Tasks & Accountabilities
- Provide qualitative service levels to internal and external stake holders
- Analyse and underwrite new and existing policies effectively within delegated authority limits to achieve agreed levels of underwriting performance by providing technical underwriting support and assistance
- To provide high quality service and solutions to brokers and customers to ensure business retention and profitable growth.
- To provide effective qualitative underwriting and to demonstrate specialized product knowledge and to be a mentor to Junior Underwriting technicians
- Achieve targeted underwriting profit by assistance and performance of underwriting skills by underwriting medium to high complexity risk
- Growth and retention of business
- Contribute to proposition development

Qualifications & Experience
- Grade 12
- Min 5 years technical expertise in commercial including all commercial underwriting classes of insurance business
- FAIS compliant, 60 credits
- Must have RE

Knowledge
- Sound understanding and knowledge of South African Insurance/re-insurance market
- Sound knowledge of how to optimise underwriting performance at a policy and portfolio level
- Sound knowledge of statutory and legislative requirements
- Expert technical knowledge and understanding of underwriting principles
- Commercial, Financial, and business acumen

**Skills**:

- Good relationship building skills
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Strong People management skills
- Strong Numeracy skills
- Strong underwriting skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Sound interpersonal skills
- Computer literacy: sound Excel skills preferable
- Leadership
- Problem solving
- Teamwork

Attributes
- Problem solving
- Technical expertise
- Analysis
- Concern for Excellence
- Customer Service Orientation
- Delegation
- Developing Organisational Talent
- Diversity Management
- Engagement Impact/presence/rapport

Closing date: 24 February 2025

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