Role & Company Overview
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Description
- As an Underwriting Assistant to an Industry-leading International Insurance Institution you will be responsible for working with top National and State Wide companies as well as High-Profile Clients.
- Assist the team in maintaining efficient underwriting processes and providing customer service to their Clients.
- Work on a flexible and innovative team offering a friendly, collaborative, diverse and inclusive work environment.
Additional Responsibilities Include
Support the Underwriters in the delivery of an effective and efficient administration serviceProvide pre-underwriting and rating support to Underwriters and other staff. Ensure timely and accurate data entry and scanning of risk documentation onto all systems within agreed service levels. Specifically checking agreed % of risk entries as required. Data verification, integrity & accuracy. Photocopying, logging and scanning quotes and declinatures, filing, archiving and scanning. Interact with other teams, i.e. Claims, Finance, Compliance, Management Services and other underwriting teams on matters affecting or related to accounts within the portfolio. Help maintain team standards through supporting other underwriting assistants in achieving their service/quality levels and targets, as required. Provide accurate management information to management team and underwriters. Produce ad hoc reports, presentations and marketing literature for managers, underwriters and other members of staff as requested. Provide a professional service to brokers in person, writing, email and telephone. Maintain and develop key relationships including brokers and external clients, responding to client queries in an accurate and timely fashion. Attend client meetings as required.
Skills And Abilities
Accurate and numerateComputer skills – good working knowledge of MS Office, well developed spreadsheet skillsAble to communicate effectively with others, both verbally and in writingMotivational skills, team worker as well as able to work on own initiativeThe ability to manage time, meet deadlines and priorities
Benefits Once Permanent
Daily in office lunchesCommuter reimbursementMonthly Lifestyle allowanceStrong 401k matchSabbatical after 10 yearsSix month parental leaveDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion Employee Networks
About TEKsystems
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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