Underwriting Specialist

MSIG USA continues to grow! 

Company Overview:

MSIG USA is the US-based subsidiary of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc., one of the world’s top P&C carriers and a global Class 15 insurer, with A+ ratings and a reach that spans 40+ countries and regions. Leveraging our 350-year heritage, MSIG USA brings the financial strength, expertise, and global footprint to offer commercial insurance solutions that address your business’s unique risks.

Summary/Job Purpose:

Provides day to day supervision of underwriters and underwriting process to ensure that standards for quality and underwriting control are met.  Assists in monitoring business process to ensure effective and efficient workflows are maintained.  Works with underwriters to increase knowledge and support decision making on account level or business practice issues. Underwrites complex accounts.

Essential Functions:

Percentage of Time:

• Allocates underwriting resources to handle minor fluctuations of individual workloads to ensure timeliness of work processing, including policy issuance and timely collection of premiums due.

• Conducts departmental self – audits and manages self audit process including reporting and monitoring of corrective actions in a timely and effective manner.   Identifies and recommends training needs based on self-audit trends.

• Reviews and evaluates referrals from underwriters based on and expanded letter of authority.

• Is responsible for mentoring and training underwriting staff by providing technical training to underwriting staff to increase skill levels and to ensure appropriate skill levels are maintained

• Serves as a liaison for the Underwriting Department in day to day relations with the Operations Department to ensure all questions are answered and accounts are serviced in a timely and accurate manner.

• Assist in the implementation and monitoring of the Account Management process to ensure the ultimate account servicing