Underwriter - Missoula
This role is hybrid, requiring 3 days/week in our Missoula, MT office.
About the role
The purpose of this role is to support the financial success of the company by underwriting crop insurance policies in compliance with regulations and company policies. This involves analyzing regulations, facilitating rate and forms filing, and making sound underwriting decisions to contribute to a profitable portfolio. Additionally, the role involves assisting with business development and growth through building relationships with assigned agencies.
Responsibilities
- Support with review, evaluation, and pricing of crop insurance policies while adhering to regulations and company policies.
- Help generate accurate and complete policy processing by reviewing applications, policy changes, and other documents, resolving inconsistencies, and confirming next steps.
- Provide processing support for claims and compliance departments, completing transactions within the assigned area of responsibility.
- Track policy cycle status to completion, ensuring coverage continuation and avoiding penalties.
- Correct errors and resolve issues with the FCIC Error Report promptly.
- Effectively respond to requests for information regarding crop hail from key stakeholders.
- Provide exceptional customer service and meet deadlines set by Risk Management Agency (RMA) policies and procedures.
- Utilize various resources to research and answer crop insurance questions.
- Attend training sessions to enhance knowledge of crop insurance.
- Contribute to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural expectations and influencing others to value performance, accountability, diversity, flexibility, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- High School Diploma/GED
Skills
- Quickly and accurately perform data entry
- Use multiple resources to gather and analyze information and use logic to underwrite basic risk exposures within authority
- Build and maintain professional networks
- Clearly and confidently convey information to a wide audience
- Prioritize interests of the company and community during decision-making
- Complete tasks by taking decisive or quick action
- Utilize established procedures to guide decision-making
- Communicate information in a clear, well-organized, and professional manner
- Follow established guidelines to focus on details and complete tasks attentively and thoroughly
- Escalate issues when necessary
- Demonstrated multitasking while maintaining accuracy
- Maintain highest confidentiality
- Make decisions and act in uncertain and ambiguous situations
- Quickly learn, understand, and take action
- Multi-task and handle competing priorities
- High attention to detail
- Adapt and be flexible in a complex changing environment
- Motivational, inspirational, and enthusiastic approach to team involvement and engagement
- Demonstrated interest in enhancing knowledge; seeks opportunities to learn and grow
- Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines while maintaining accuracy
- Able to self-start and manage to an end
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Data entry experience
- Agriculture experience
- Some relevant work experience
Pay
The salary range for this role is $26.50/hour - $39/hour. The salary offer will be decided based on the role's complexity, its location, and the candidate’s professional background, including their education and experience. Beyond the base salary, regular full-time and part-time employees will also be eligible for QBE’s annual discretionary bonus plan based on business and individual performance.
Benefits
- Hybrid working – a mix of working from home and in the office
- 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis
- Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%
- Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- Tuition reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education
- Employee Network and Community – QBE actively supports six Employee Networks, and many ways to give back to your community