Underwriting Specialist

Posted 10 Days Ago
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Home, KS
134K-181K Annually
Senior level
Financial Services
The Role
The Underwriting Specialist is responsible for underwiring profitable business, evaluating accounts, negotiating terms, and ensuring compliance with underwriting guidelines. This role involves the management of catastrophe accumulation and policy documentation, as well as training and coaching less experienced staff.
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With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.

Main Responsibilities for this role include:

  • Underwrite Profitable business
  • Underwrite new and renewal accounts to meet top and bottom line targets
  • Negotiate price and terms and conditions with producers
  • Proactively manage capacity
  • Underwrite and evaluate Natural Catastrophe Accumulation, ensuring an understanding of catastrophe modeling and interpretation of scenarios (for relevant LOBs)
  • Underwriting Approach and Compliance
  • Underwrite in line with LoB governance framework - e.g. Underwriting Authorities, global MSU, Underwriting Guidelines, Rules and Principles
  • Ensure contract certainty is achieved on all accounts at time of inception
  • Ensure utilization of global pricing tools
  • Ensure placing and binding of FAC Reinsurance prior to policy inception
  • Policy Documentation and Administration
  • Ensure accurate policy documentation issued to producers or producers has issued documentation (where producer responsibility)
  • File maintenance – ensure file is established (whether electronic or paper) and maintained for each risk and transaction handled
  • Proactively support completion of policy administration and credit control processes
  • Underwriting Strategy & Leadership
  • Contribute to development and execution of regional Underwriting strategy for LoB regionally
  • Training, developing and coaching of less experienced staff (including Underwriters)
  • Manage complex referrals from underwriters and spokes and re-underwrite complex business as appropriate
  • Delegate work as appropriate

Requirements:

  • A minimum of 5 years of direct experience in underwriting profitable business in LoB
  • Specialized expert understanding of sub-LoB products and portfolio
  • Recognized relationships with brokers at peer group level and well established within market
  • Specialized understanding of regional / local LoB insurance markets and competitor landscape, including global elements
  • Preferably a degree in Economics, Finance, Insurance Mgmt, or Business Administration
  • Completion of professional insurance qualification (e.g. CII)

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For individuals assigned or hired to work in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Jersey City, NJ; New York State; and/or Washington State, the base salary range is listed below. This range is as of the time of posting. Position is incentive eligible.

$133,753 - $180,959/year

  • Total individual compensation (base salary, short & long-term incentives) offered will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to geographic location, scope & responsibilities of the role, qualifications, talent availability & specialization as well as business needs. The above range may be modified in the future

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14400 Arch Insurance Group Inc.

The Company
HQ: White Plains, NY
285 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

Arch Capital Group Ltd. (Arch Capital or ACGL), a Bermuda public limited liability company, writes insurance and reinsurance on a worldwide basis through operations in Bermuda, the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, with a focus on specialty lines. Arch Capital Services LLC is owned by ACGL and provides corporate, legal and other support services to Arch Capital.

ACGL provides insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance on a worldwide basis through operations in Bermuda, the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Hong Kong.

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