Underwriting Assistant
About The Position
RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all. Reporting to the Director, Underwriting, the Underwriting Assistant assumes administrative and corporate tasks in order to meet the departmental objectives.
Requirements
- High School Diploma completed
- Knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Outlook
Nice To Haves
- Bilingual French/English (oral and written) is considered an asset
- Knowledge of the life-insurance or life-reinsurance industry an asset
- Solid time management and organizational skills, with an ability to meet or exceed individual/team targets.
- Works effectively and collaboratively within and across teams; shows initiative and actively contributes ideas and solutions.
- Solid observational sense and detail-oriented.
- Self-motivated, flexible and creative.
- Able to identify and quickly shift priorities as needed.
- Proactively builds strong interpersonal relationships
Responsibilities
- Receive reinsurance applications and create and set up within Reflex and Sylvie systems, ensuring attention to detail so that all information populated is correct; and required authorizations have been received.
- Monitor the triage queue in Reflex to ensure that cases requiring manual prioritization are identified and reprioritized as required.
- Identify and escalate follow-up requests to the underwriter on high priority/large face amount cases.
- Monitor underwriter queues in Reflex against the underwriting calendar to ensure that work is distributed /redistributed according to underwriter availability.
- Assign mail received to the appropriate pending applications, within the required turn around time.
- Effectively and proactively communicate with internal and external (e.g. ceding companies; retros) clients to seek additional information and/or answer routine requests.
- Provide underwriter support and assist with handling requests effectively and efficiently.
- Make requests to/follow up with retro-cessionaires.
- Assist with projects and reporting as required.
- Complete any other necessary tasks required from the Director.
Benefits
- annual bonus plan
- long-term equity incentive plan
- full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
