Associate - Underwriting

Job Location- Gurgaon- Experience (in Years)- 2 - 5- Job Type- Full Time**Job Description**:

- Position: Associate - Underwriting
- Client: Canara HSBC Life Insurance
- Location: Gurgaon(HO)
- Exp: 2 to 5 Yrs
- Notice Period: Immediate - 30 days
- Budget : 3.5 to 5 LPA

**About the Client**:
Established in 2008, Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company Limited is a joint venture between Canara Bank (51%), HSBC Insurance (Asia Pacific) Holdings Limited (26%) and Punjab National Bank (23%). The company brings together the trust and market knowledge of two big public sector banks in India i.e. Canara Bank and Punjab National Bank combined with the global insurance expertise of HSBC.

**Location**: Gurgaon(**HO**)
- To underwrite and provide technical support for an effective and efficient underwriting for Canara HSBC OBC life insurance venture in Indian market, in line with the HSBC group and to ensure that Life Insurance venture provides professional underwriting service to its clients and maintain healthy levels of profitability, growth and development.
- To achieve desired productivity levels. Ensure desired accuracy levels in case assessment.
- Medical underwriting to be done for Retail, Group and Policy Servicing and co-ordinate with bank channels sales personnel for all underwriting queries and resolution.
- The nature of the job requires a professionally and technically skilled individual with experience in insurance industry to understand the technical aspects of the job requiring professional experience to deal with complex financial and medical proposals, to provide timely and accurate response to sales queries as well as an efficient management of the underwriting department. It is essential that the individual has a firm grasp of the insurance concepts as the underwriting department deals with risk acceptance on behalf of the company.
- The challenge also constitutes of keeping the sales satisfied as well as maintaining an efficient team which is skillful and talented.
- It is also required that the Job Holder is self-motivated staff with widely differing aspirations to work in a high pressure, productivity-based environment where deadlines are critical.
- Underwriting department uses underwriting related software. Therefore, it is essential to have knowledge regarding IT systems to provide the required input for system development.
- The context of the Job requires a professional experience in underwriting. Based on experience, the individual will have an underwriting authority limit and is required to underwrite the cases with the authority limits. Cases above the authority limit will be approved by senior underwriter. The job also requires providing technical assistance to the team and related departments. Co-ordination with CMO (Chief Medical Officer) is also part of this job.
- Importance is given to efficient communication skills as there may be situations where it is required to talk to customers in case of sensitive issues such as medical findings or cover restriction which the sales may not be equipped with enough knowledge to fully explain and satisfy a customer. The job also requires efficient resolution of sales queries.
- Technical expertise is stressed upon as the Job require experience of analysis of medical and financial documents, estimation of extra premium to be charged, specific underwriting such as revival and group medical underwriting, understanding of different plans and a basic knowledge of the software used in Underwriting both from technical aspect and user aspect.
- Management skills are also required to manage the team in terms of efficiency, quality, supervision, training and staff recruitment. The individual should be practically prepared to work beyond the existing boundaries or rules for enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Company.

About Company

Upman Placements is a firm of Researcher & Recruitment Specialists. The company started life in 2002 in India as a recruitment specialist firm. The company has built a stellar reputation for high ethical standards, a specialized focus and unparalleled service. Emerged As one of the only truly global specialized staffing firms focusing exclusively in professional positions for our clients spread across more than 20 countries with a sizable presence across industry levels. With footprints in competitive markets of India, Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei and East & Central African countries.