Underwriting Specialist - Johannesburg, South Africa - FirstRand

FirstRand

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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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 inforce 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 reinsurance treaty partners
Implement Reinsurer 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 Reinsurance experience would be advantageous

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