Healthcare Underwriting Assistant - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Title:

Healthcare Underwriting Assistant - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Company:

Everest Advisors (UK), Ltd.

Job Category:

Underwriting

Job Description:

We take pride in being known in the industry as nimble, entrepreneurial and responsive. Our culture is innovative, we empower our employees to make business decisions within our risk framework at a local level. Throughout our history, we have maintained our discipline and focus on creating long term value through underwriting excellence and strong Risk and Capital Management. We believe that our future is determined by the actions we take today, actions that go beyond business strategy and encompass the values important both to us and the communities in which we operate.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare Underwriting Assistant to join us on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract. As an Everest Underwriting Assistant you will sit with and support the Underwriters within the Healthcare department whilst working as a member of the Operations Underwriting Support team to deliver accurate risk, record keeping and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Summarise slip terms and conditions, calculate premiums and exposures and ensure complete accurate entry of submissions, quotes, risks, endorsements, and transactions to the Everest Underwriting System(s) so as to ensure correct management, statistical and regulatory reporting. Perform as required the necessary data checks to ensure accuracy of underwriting data ensuring they are accurately entered within our systems.
• Store all risk information and correspondence onto the document repository to ensure a complete and accurate audit trail of all substantive business activity.
• Ensure that all relevant underwriting information is included for the peer review, risk entry and data checking review process within the designated timeframe. Underwriting information submitted electronically to be indexed and updated as appropriate within specified timeframes.
• Maintain tools containing key underwriting information to facilitate compliance sanctions, fraud and financial crime checks pre bind and monitoring post bind.
• Assist underwriters’ during the underwriting process, production of management information, business development and marketing.
• Provide administrative support to underwriters and the Operations team in areas including credit control, data quality and training
• Any other ad hoc tasks as defined and agreed with the Operations Manager.
• All functions to be performed in accordance with Everest target operating model, policies and specific procedure manuals, as amended from time to time.

Experience required:

• Ideally some Insurance experience within an Insurer

• London market experience is ideal but not essential

Skills & Abilities:

• Logical, analytical and resourceful.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Confident and will act with urgency
• Strong IT and system skills
• Ability to review complex information and retain knowledge.
• Good organizational skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to follow through on tasks/projects.
• Must be able to work alone but also contribute as part of a team.

At Everest, we are committed to the development of our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our Underwriting Assistants with genuine fast track underwriting opportunities.

Our Culture 

At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors. Click here to learn more about our culture. 

  

• Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.  
• Our Colleague Behaviors define how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location, level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.  

  

All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues, and the global communities we serve.  

Type:

Fixed_Term

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location:

London

Additional Locations:

N/A