Underwriting Consultant - eTeam Inc.
Austin, TX 78758-4965
About the Job
Job Title: Underwriting Consultant
Location: Austin TX 78758/Hybrid – 1 – 2 days in office
Duration: Full Time/Direct Hire
Description:
Manager's note:
PRIMARY PURPOSE:
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education & Licensing
Experience:
Location: Austin TX 78758/Hybrid – 1 – 2 days in office
Duration: Full Time/Direct Hire
Description:
Manager's note:
- Role: this is a Senior Property/ Casualty Commercial Underwriter. Ideally, they will have public entity experience.
- Job location: Hybrid – 1 – 2 days in office
- Mandatory: min 6-10 yrs Commercial Insurance Underwriting Experience – public entity preferred but not required. TX P&C license required or must obtain within 6 months of hire.
- Note:- employee benefit/health underwriters and loan underwriters are not what we are looking for this position.
PRIMARY PURPOSE:
- To provide third-party underwriting services and be responsible for performing captive underwriting comprised of property/casualty including workers’ compensation lines of business with account premiums ranging in premium.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintains strong relationships with agents, brokers, carrier contacts and internal department personnel.
- Evaluates the risks and exposures associated with underwriting a book of business including developing new and renewal business quote proposals, developing loss picks, maintaining logs, preparing premium finance agreements, reviewing audits, working with internal accounting and captive management teams for billing and collections of premiums, providing summaries and projections of payroll reports provided by clients, accurately performing exposure based analysis using carrier rating models, submitting documents, communicating and negotiating pricing and coverages with carrier underwriters and communicating and supporting those decisions to brokers, carrier underwriters and ARS Management.
- Works with claims and risk control teams to assist in any program service issues.
- Assists in the development and administration of complex underwriting rules and guidelines.
- Analyzes quantitative and qualitative data to improve risk selection.
- Acts as a technical resource for property and casualty coverage lines of business.
- Develops and maintains strong external/internal customer relationships by identifying, anticipating business needs and by delivering timely responses to captive customers, brokers and ARS managers; assists business development with marketing information, presentations and related activities.
- Mentors underwriting staff.
- Participates in special projects as assigned.
- Meets underwriting department KPI’s (key performance indicators) established by ARS Management.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education & Licensing
- Bachelor's degree in insurance or finance from an accredited college or university preferred. Property Casualty License a plus.
- Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate in Captive Insurance (ACI), Certificate in Captive Insurance (CCI) and/or Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) courses and/or designations preferred.
Experience:
- Six (6) years of commercial insurance experience in the underwriting areas with an Client on program underwriting or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
- Supervisory experience a plus.
Source : eTeam Inc.