Assistant Underwriter
Burns & Wilcox
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide clients with exemplary customer service
- Maintain relationships with clients and carriers and serve as a point of contact
- Service insurance policies by answering questions or requests from clients and carriers
- Communicate with brokers, and carriers to troubleshoot issues and follow up on accounts
- Handle accounting or payment issues
- Upload claims data and pull claims reports
- Work with internal team members for ad-hoc underwriting projects and requests
- Process new business and renewal submissions within all systems in a timely manner
- Correctly classify submissions and renewals (which carriers to choose, if it is a declined class, if rate is not competitive)
- Choose the right wording to form policy documents
- Stay up to date on renewal book – send notices and quotes on time (solicit renewals)
- Complete in-house rating worksheets for binding contracts accurately (Binding)
- Follow all audit requirements for files (e.g. all subjectivities collected, all missing information received, u/w file notes, etc.)
- Attend all relevant internal training sessions for contracts, new products, skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Insurance administration experience in underwriting and/or brokerage support with excess & surplus lines preferred
- Proven organization skills and ability with a strong attention to detail
- Interest in continued education and professional development to obtain full underwriting authority
- Competitive base compensation and incentive bonus plan
- Health benefits
- Employer matched 401K
- Employer paid continuing education courses, designations and licensing
- Many opportunities for career advancement