Underwriting Assistant

CFC • New York, NY

14d • $85,000 - $95,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Our Underwriting Assistants are a critical part of CFC’s underwriting operation, providing expert support to underwriters and helping ensure we continue to deliver outstanding service to brokers and insureds worldwide. As an Underwriting Assistant in our Corporate Professions team, you'll play a key role in supporting the end-to-end underwriting process, acting as a trusted partner to the underwriting team and helping drive efficiency, accuracy and consistency across the portfolio. We're ideally looking for someone who already has a few years of experience supporting Corporate Professions underwriters and is looking to continue building their career as a UA within a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience working as an Underwriting Assistant within the insurance market supporting Corporate Professions underwriting teams.
• A strong understanding of underwriting processes, policy administration and broker servicing.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• Confidence communicating with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Good system skills, including experience with Microsoft Office and experience navigating underwriting platforms.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to support colleagues across the wider team.

Nice To Haves

• Progress towards, or an interest in pursuing, professional insurance qualifications such as the CII.

Responsibilities

• Supporting underwriters throughout the full underwriting lifecycle, from submission through to policy issuance.
• Managing and prioritising new business and renewal submissions.
• Ensuring underwriting systems and records are maintained accurately and in a timely manner.
• Preparing underwriting documentation, policy schedules and related correspondence.
• Liaising with brokers and internal stakeholders to resolve queries and obtain outstanding information.
• Monitoring pipelines, renewal activity and subjectivities, ensuring key deadlines are met.
• Producing reports and management information as required.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working across the team.
• Acting as a knowledgeable point of contact for underwriting operations and administration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed