Risk Underwriter

4 weeks ago


United Kingdom Randstad Full time

Underwriter Location: Remote
Contract length: My client is a leading global insurance organisation. Building on 100 years of experience, today their member companies provide a wide range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions, and other financial services to customers in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions. These diverse offerings include products and services that help businesses and individuals protect their assets, manage risks and provide for retirement security.

Life and Retirement is a unique franchise that brings together a broad portfolio of life insurance, retirement and institutional products offered through an extensive, multichannel distribution network. Are you an underwriter with an appetite for providing excellent customer service whilst balancing risk and resolution of cases? We are looking for someone with experience of underwriting and a current working underwriting authority of a minimum of £600,000 Life, £300,000 Critical Illness and a working knowledge of disability benefits including Income Protection.

You will have a proven working knowledge of Income Protection, Life, Critical Illness and disability products
You will assess all applications that aren’t accepted by our online underwriting engine – initial applications, additional information, amendments – and you will assess all medical evidence upon receipt from third party sources.
You will also provide a telephone service for pre-sale enquiries, being the first point of contact for our advisers when they are looking to place business with us, providing accurate indications of underwriting decisions and working with Sales to ensure advisers consider us their number one provider.
You will have general knowledge of insurance industry codes and current practices
You will be able to demonstrate good lateral thinking and proactive problem-solving skills, have sound decision making skills and the ability to recognize risk events, manage and escalate these where appropriate.
You will display role model behaviours in line with company values, have good organisational and time management skills and be reliable and flexible.



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