Senior Underwriter

As a Senior Reinsurance Life & Disability Underwriter for the Australian and New Zealand markets, you will play a pivotal role in our organisation. Your expertise will be crucial in underwriting large and complex cases, ensuring that we manage risk effectively while maintaining our competitive edge. You will be a key player in shaping our underwriting guidelines and strategies, and your thought leadership will help us stay ahead in the industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Underwrite Large Complex Cases : Evaluate and underwrite high-value and intricate life and disability reinsurance cases with care and precision.
• Client Relationship Management : Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, ensuring their needs are met and expectations exceeded through collaborative and caring interactions.
• Client Training : Provide training and support to clients, enhancing their understanding of our underwriting processes and guidelines through collaborative efforts.
• Research & Design Guidelines : Conduct thorough research to develop and refine underwriting guidelines and best practices, fostering an open-minded approach to innovation.
• Risk Management : Implement and oversee risk management strategies with integrity, ensuring sustainable and profitable underwriting.
• Industry Representation : Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and forums, showcasing our expertise and thought leadership with courage and integrity.
• Thought Leadership : Contribute to industry publications, white papers, and other thought leadership initiatives, demonstrating our commitment to excellence.
• Global Projects & Working Groups : Participate in global projects and working groups, collaborating with colleagues across the globe with an open-minded and courageous approach.
• Underwriting Manual Management : Oversee the development and maintenance of the underwriting manual, ensuring it is up-to-date and comprehensive, reflecting our values of integrity and risk management.

Experience and competencies:

• Extensive experience in life and disability reinsurance underwriting
• Proven ability to manage complex cases
• Ability to build and maintain strong client relationships
• Experience with Microsoft applications
• Strong ability to multitask, prioristise and execute
• Be able to work independently
• Strong analytical and research skills
• Development of underwriting guidelines
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Experience in risk management
• Thought leadership and industry representation experience
  Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with local and global teams and projects

Education requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• ANZIIF, ACII, LOMA, CLU or other relevant professional qualifications
• A commitment to ongoing continuous learning

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying "The Art & Science of Risk," SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by "The SCOR Way." Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.