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Underwriting Assistant
Position details:
ID: 1437719
Subcompany: NorthStandard
Office: Newcastle
Department: Coastal & Inland - London
Employment type: Permanent
Seniority: Entry Level
Schedule: Full Time
Required years of experience: 1 to 2 years
What you will be doing
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Coastal and Inland department as an Underwriting Assistant in our Newcastle or London office. In this role, you will be assisting in the provision of a quality underwriting service to insureds, members or their brokers. All assistance is to be provided in line with Department procedures and guidelines.
Key responsibilities will include:
Ensuring the interests of Policyholders and the Association are protected and reflect our Company ethos by always providing service excellence to Policyholders and colleagues.
Key responsibilities will include:
- General Policy maintenance and administration.
- Administration for the Underwriting Department.
- Data input.
- Creation and editing of policy documentation, including manual editing of PDF documents where necessary.
- Maintaining members’ and insureds’ records.
- Updating systems.
- Assisting Underwriting Executives to maintain service standards.
- Following the Rules and procedures of the Company and operating within authority levels as stipulated.
- Carrying out other duties as requested by Management.
Ensuring the interests of Policyholders and the Association are protected and reflect our Company ethos by always providing service excellence to Policyholders and colleagues.
Your profile
- Excellent working knowledge of MS Office (including Word, PowerPoint,
- Excel and Outlook)
- IT Literate with the ability to quickly adapt to new systems.
- Efficient & effective administration skills, with particular emphasis on attention to detail concerning work produced.
- Educated to at least A-level standard.
- Honesty and integrity with ability to manage confidential information.
- Highly proactive and reliable in task completion and accuracy.
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to demonstrate sound written and verbal communication skills.
- Good planning and organisational skills with the ability to cope with demanding workloads.
What we can offer you
- Excellent working knowledge of MS Office (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook)
- IT Literate with the ability to quickly adapt to new systems.
- Efficient & effective administration skills, with particular emphasis on attention to detail concerning work produced.
- Educated to at least A-level standard.
- Honesty and integrity with ability to manage confidential information.
- Highly proactive and reliable in task completion and accuracy.
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to demonstrate sound written and verbal communication skills.
- Good planning and organisational skills with the ability to cope with demanding workloads.