Senior Underwriter

Company Description

• Help protect over 5 million Australians, making a real difference in their lives during their most challenging times.
• Join a company that fosters a culture of respect, resourcefulness, and inclusivity, allowing you to grow both personally and professionally.
• Work with experienced and skilled colleagues who support and inspire one another to achieve collective success

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we've been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we're helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

Job Description

As a Group Underwriter you will provide quality underwriting service in line with TAL's underwriting philosophy, standards and practices to maintain a profitable risk portfolio.

In this role you will:

• Assess new applications and action review files within the agreed timeframe.
• Communicate openly to engage customers, peers, members and funds using a variety of communication strategies (face to face, written, telephone and presentations).
• Contribute to a proactive, consistent customer experience across the underwriting team, identifying customer issues and opportunities to resolve them.
• Work closely with our fund partners to collaborate and build effective relationships
• Think innovatively and challenge the status quo, helping to embed changes that add value to customers and partners.

Qualifications

• Underwriter with minimum 3 years Life/Group Insurance industry experience
• A comprehensive understanding of the business and life insurance industry.
• Good working knowledge of professional standard and codes.
• Previous underwriting authority limits. Group Risk experience would be advantageous.
• Strong Medical, Financial and systems knowledge.
• Certificate IV in Life Insurance

Additional Information

TAL is one of Australia's leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We're proud to be:

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we're here to support you.

You're always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.

Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone's responsibility.

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