Description:
The Opportunity: Are you an experienced Underwriter with large case exposure looking for a new and challenging role? The Senior Underwriting Consultant is a critical member of our Underwriting team and is accountable for Large Case Underwriting of Life and Critical Illness products. You’ll work alongside senior management to develop new underwriting procedures and processes while mentoring senior underwriters on Large Case concepts.
What you will be doing:
- Assist in the development of the Large Case procedures and underwriting practices
- Ensure prompt turnaround within the expected service standards. Liaise with reinsures, advisors and vendors to ensure smooth handling and superior customer service experience
- Provide educational presentations to MGA’s, groups of advisors, and Equitable Life wholesalers as required
- Provide training sessions to underwriters including mentoring senior underwriters on large case financial concepts
- Back up the technical team in functions such as: semi-annual technical underwriting audits, co-signing for all levels of underwriters in the department, assisting the Chief Underwriter with review of fraudulent claims and possible policy rescissions as required
- Provide support in the implementation of continuous improvement
What you will bring:
- University degree
- FALU, FLMI
- 10 + years of underwriting experience for life and critical illness insurance risk
- Underwriting experience in the large case market
- Superior verbal and written communication skills with the ability to be persuasive in negative situations and with reinsurance partners
- Possess a keen sense of urgency and a proven ability to work well under pressure
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Superior underwriting technical knowledge in both medical and financial underwriting
- Bilingual, English and French, is an asset
- ECG (Electrocardiogram) test interpretation is an asset