Commercial Underwriter - Melbourne, Australia - Hooker & Heijden

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    About us

    Hooker & Heijden partner with Brokers, Insurers, Underwriting Agencies, Loss Adjusters and TPA's to provide career opportunities to insurance industry professionals throughout Australian and New Zealand.

    Our Client

    Our client is a progressive and dynamic underwriting agency which has strong relationships with Australia's broker market. They are a forward-thinking organisation with innovative and efficient technology enabling them to provide quickly and competitively provide Property and Liability products for hard to place occupations.

    The Role

    Duties include:

    • Underwrite commercial property risks
    • Delivery of a high level of customer service to internal and external stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
    • Setting up and finalising policies in various systems
    • Providing underwriting support on transactions such as quotations, cover notes, new business, endorsements and renewals
    • Support in premium handling, monitoring and chasing
    • Ensuring that work is processed in a timely manner to meet key business targets.
    • Ensuring work is accurate and underwriting discipline and procedures are being followed

    Your experience:

    • Experience underwriting SME risks including Commercial Property and Liability.
    • Able to establish priorities and to plan, coordinate, and monitor a personal work plan, maintaining oversight of multiple tasks
    • Have the ability to accurately and efficiently analyse data with a sound understanding of numbers
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills
    • Excellent customer service skills
    • Ability to build and maintain relationships both internally and externally
    • Ability to work in a fast paced team environment

    Next Steps

    Hooker & Heijden undertake a thorough recruitment process on behalf of our clients and candidates. Please express your interest in this role by submitting your resume via this advertisement. We will contact you to discuss this role, your experience, and other opportunities we may have that are appropriate.

    As part of our compliance process we will provide you with a privacy statement and candidate registration form to completed.

    Hooker & Heijden and our Clients interview process includes telephone, video and in person interviews. Testing may also be part of the interview process

    Please note as part of securing your new position it may be a requirement of employment that you undertake police, bankruptcy, banned register and qualification checks.