Underwriting Clerk

Sanlam Limited • Other • Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa • $50 - $200 / year • 7h ago

A position has become available within Santam Marine for an Underwriting Clerk and will be based in the Moffet On Main Lifestyle Centre (201) Port Elizabeth .

Key Accountabilities:

Dealing with issuance of new policies, policy maintenance, renewal, and any other policy-related concerns.
Assisting to resolve all administration queries within required timeframe and compliance requirements.
Undertaking client follow-ups with unpaid premiums.
Managing client expectations on expected turnaround times for submitted requests.
Adhering to underwriting criteria and business unit requirements.
Assisting in implementing solutions for improvement.
Standing in for team members should they be absent or on leave during busy periods or absence of key resources, assisting where required.
Achieve monthly key performance metrics and adherence to workforce management.
Any additional duties as assigned from Management.

Qualification and Experience

Matric/Grade 12
FAIS Compliance
RE5
Proven work experience in Marine (advantageous) policy administration and underwriting within the short-term insurance industry.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Marine short-term insurance is preferred.

Knowledge and Skills

Knowledge of Reinsurance
Basic understanding of the insurance industry including the reinsurance market and the terminologies used
Understanding of policy wordings, specifically related to your Line of Business
Able to evaluate information from a variety of sources and solve problems
Good decision-making skills; able to consider the costs and benefits of various options and recommend the appropriate one as part of the referral process
Good communication and interpersonal skills; comfortable with phone and face-to-face complex discussions with underwriters, brokers, and any other relevant stakeholders
Deadline focused; able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines and able to organise own workload effectively to prioritise and delegate to meet service standards
Competent user of Excel, Word, Outlook, and other Microsoft platforms
Operationally efficient; able to follow all process requirements
Information seeking
Analytical thinking
Drive for results
Initiative
Emotional self-control

Our Commitment to Transformation

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding, and transforming company and, whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.

Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of insurance good and proper. We're about people. People drive our business, so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.

At Santam, we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals, we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the division's Employment Equity targets.

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