Liability Underwriter

4 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Hooker & Heijden Full time

Overview

  • High Risk Liability
  • National Broker Panel

About Us

Hooker & Heijden partner with Brokers, Insurers, Underwriting Agencies, Loss Adjusters and TPA's to provide career opportunities to insurance industry professionals throughout Australian and New Zealand.

Our Client

Our client is an underwriter experiencing growth, facilitated by the quality of their team, product and strong relationships with Australia’s broker market. 

The Role

Duties include:

  • Underwrite high risk commercial liability risks
  • Delivery of a high level of customer service to internal and external stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
  • Setting up and finalising policies in various systems 
  • Providing underwriting support on transactions such as quotations, cover notes, new business, endorsements and renewals
  • Support in premium handling, monitoring and chasing
  • Ensuring that work is processed in a timely manner to meet key business targets.
  • Ensuring work is accurate and underwriting discipline and procedures are being followed
  • Flexibility to Engage with Lloyds after hours on occasion

Your experience:

  • Experience underwriting commercial liability risks.
  • Able to establish priorities and to plan, coordinate, and monitor a personal work plan, maintaining oversight of multiple tasks
  • Have the ability to accurately and efficiently analyse data with a sound understanding of numbers
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Ability to build and maintain relationships both internally and externally
  • Ability to work in a fast paced team environment

Next Steps

Hooker & Heijden undertake a thorough recruitment process on behalf of our clients and candidates. Please express your interest in this role by submitting your resume via this advertisement. We will contact you to discuss this role, your experience, and other opportunities we may have that are appropriate.

As part of our compliance process we will provide you with a privacy statement and candidate registration form to completed.

Hooker & Heijden and our Clients interview process includes telephone, video and in person interviews. Testing may also be part of the interview process

Please note as part of securing your new position it may be a requirement of employment that you undertake police, bankruptcy, banned register and qualification checks.


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