Senior Underwriting Consultant

Responsibilities

• Applies and underwrites complex risks for life insurance with approval authority up to $5,000,000
• Processes casework load to ensure completion in a timely, efficient manner, meeting or exceeding time service/productivity goals and offer/decline ratios; and ensures compliance with internal underwriting and audit guidelines.
• Provides underwriting solutions to clients by partnering with them to identify unique, creative ways to solve their problems and improve their business results.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with clients by gaining knowledge of clients' business and uses effective listening skills to understand their needs. Effectively communicates, sells and negotiates RGA Re's underwriting decisions.
• Identifies image system issues, sometimes on a remote basis, and reports inconsistencies or problems.
• Participates in special projects, committees, and meetings and assists in client presentations, as required.
• Assists in department training, updating internal underwriting guidelines/procedures, gathering client profiles, audit reviews, and in other department areas as needed.
• Performs backup support and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related work experience (minimum 8 years)
• 4-6 years reinsurance Life underwriting experience or 7-8 years direct Life underwriting experience
• Basic Word skills, intermediate SQL/Query and Excel skills
• Competent ability to comprehend and interpret insurance and contract documents
• Advanced oral and written communication skills demonstrate the ability to share and impart knowledge
• Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions
• Advanced investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Advanced ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously; Ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects
• Ability to balance detail with departmental goals/objectives
• Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions
• Advanced skills in customer relationship management and change management
• Ability to manage multiple projects or teams and set applicable goals
• Advanced negotiating and persuasion skills
• Ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines
• General business knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of insurance principles, underwriting policies and procedures and guidelines for dealing with risk analysis
• Advanced knowledge of medicine, law, accounting, finance as applied to the evaluation of life reinsurance risks and of life insurance risks
• Ability to comprehend, analyze and apply vast amounts of medical and financial information quickly to making sound financial underwriting and risk assessments
• Ability to work online, either at home or remote
• Ability to travel occasionally

Pay

• USD100,000 - USD125,000 per year