Assistant Underwriting Technician - Fixed Term Contract

About us

HDI Global is part of the Talanx Group, one of the world's largest insurance groups and a leader in the delivery of global insurance solutions for corporate businesses.

For over 100 years, HDI's 3,000 employees around the world have offered a broad and needs-based range of insurance solutions and accompanying services to clients across a variety of industries. With a presence in over 150 territories, we are everywhere our clients need us to be.

The role

To ensure the efficient and effective processing of technical information for the UK Branch, including any other branches or entities for which the UK Branch is responsible and handling of multinational business, on behalf of the HDI Group Global Network. This includes acting within agreed operational and underwriting authorities, meeting agreed service and data quality standards, both internal and external.

Key accountabilities

• Ensure that all UK Servicing Office Policies and other documents are issued promptly, accurately and in line with underwriting appetite and multinational guidelines.
• Ensure data supplied is complete and accurate, by liaison with producing offices; fronting partners; underwriters; brokers; co-insurers; etc as required.
• Liaise with the producing office(s), fronting partners and underwriters to ensure local policy requirements can be met and answer underwriting queries.
• Ensure documents issued comply with all relevant overseas & UK
  regulatory and HDI UK requirements.
• Ensure that all underwriting data is recorded promptly and accurately within the requisite systems. Data entry includes, but is not exclusively: policy creation; new business premiums; renewal premiums; endorsements; terrorism; co-insurances; reinsurances, taxes, other deductions, lead office expenses, risk management fees etc.
• Reviewing data quality as required and ensuring any errors or omissions are corrected promptly.
• Maintaining accurate electronic records for auditing and regulatory purposes.
• Support Senior Underwriting Technician and Underwriting Technician with processing of the International Programmes.
• Regularly produce reports in order to identified pending queries, missing information and provide claims information to external clients.
• Responsible for meeting agreed service standards.

Skills & experience

• Good GCSE and A levels as a minimum
• Able to organise own workload effectively to meet service standards
• Deadline focused; able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Competent user of Excel & Word
• Excellent communication skills
• Open to change

Other

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, recognising that a diverse and inclusive workplace is a creative and prosperous one.

At HDI, we empower our people to determine ways of working that best suit their role and lifestyle. We encourage our people to work with their managers to agree how best to structure their workload and routines to ensure everyone gets the most out of work. We call this framework smart@HDI

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