Senior Specialist: Underwriting at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialisation guarding against risk, in alignment with related scheme and policy conditions.

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar environment, of which 1 -2 years at a junior specialist level

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Generic Management

Additional Minimum Qualifications

Outputs

Process

• Provide specialist advice and support in area of accountability to ensure that identified solutions and recommendations are appropriate and effective.
• Identify, diagnose and recommend improvements and provide specialist advice and support; ensuring that solutions are appropriate and effective.
• Create and update database/s with findings, recommendations and relevant information to enhance the identification of trends and analysis.
• Advise on the effective execution of underwriting standards and develop underwriters' skills to align the actual to expected mortality.
• Effectively assess risks within an area of underwriting authority as determined by the underwriting philosophy and or practice.
• Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience.