Underwriter

7 months ago

Toronto, Canada Benefact Group Full time

**Working hours**:37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

**Duration**:Permanent

**Location: Toronto, ON**

**About the role**:
**Ecclesiastical Insurance** who are proudly part of **Benefact Group** are seeking a **Senior Underwriter** for our Strategic Accounts and National Programs team, based in our Toronto office.

You'll be an individual who is ready to embrace and manage complex risks associated with property and casualty products.

In this role, you'll work closely with a diverse array of stakeholders, handling underwriting submissions, managing a portfolio of accounts, and forging strong relationships with clients and brokers.

It's a role that will challenge and reward you in equal measure, offering an opportunity to flex your underwriting expertise in a forward-thinking organization that puts all profits into worthy causes.

Joining our rapidly expanding and innovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and become an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organization.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Build and maintain effective business results and mutually trustworthy tri-lateral working relations with insureds and brokers by aligning Ecclesiastical’s brand identity, equity core values, objectives, missions and current programs with the needs of customer groups in different faiths and related non-profit organizations.
- Design and deliver underwriting products that meet standards for customer satisfaction, profit, use of capital, people, systems and risk.
- Manage risk through accurate analysis and diagnosis and the development of sound specifications.
- Detect, investigate and diagnose exposures and to avoid/minimize their business effects: underwriting coverage, pricing, production and delivery, risk management.
- Manage brokers, including performance monitoring, new appointments and cancellations.
- Develop business, including marketing initiatives through working relationships with brokers, insureds, local authorities, and local business and community associations.

**Knowledge, skills and experience**
***:

- University degree or college diploma or equivalent insurance experience
- CIP designation complete or in progress
- Underwriting: Experience: 5-7 years of commercial property and casualty underwriting
- Overall experience/exposure to financial management methods, the nature of insurance risk and reinsurance costs, underwriting, claims underwriting and reinsurance.
- Working within and demonstrable proficiency in underwriting basic to moderately complex books of commercial property and casualty products, including underwriting coverage, pricing, production and delivery, risk management and managing local brokerage plans
- Knowledge and applied experience in connecting personal results to the management of loss ratios, gross written and earned premium.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities to form effective underwriting recommendations for moderately complex situations.
- Sound technical judgment.
- Organize and complete own work in a timely and cost-effective manner
- Excellent communication, analytical, organizational, negotiating and interpersonal skills
- Sound negotiating, marketing and advocating skills
- Highly motivated and able to work as a team player, or independently.

**What we offer**
***:

- A market competitive salary
- Flexible working program
- Annual transportation subsidy to assist with commuting costs
- Defined contribution pension plan - up to 8% with no employee matching required and voluntary RRSP and TFSA programs
- Generous annual bonus program for all permanent full-time staff
- Minimum of 3 weeks vacation plus paid wellness, personal, volunteer and sick days
- Comprehensive employee group benefits, including health and dental coverage, income protection plans, life insurance, ADD insurance and an annual Health Care Spending Account
- Up to $200 for an annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
- Family and Employee Assistance Program, a discount and perks program as well as an annual fitness reimbursement
- Family friendly benefits including maternity/parental top-up payments
- Support towards professional designations
- Personal development subsidy covering courses of personal interests or hobbies
- Wellness perks such as daily fresh fruit, snacks and ice-cream days in the summer
- Engagement activities including regular lunch and learns, after-work get togethers and Lunch with Leaders program to name a few
- A room with a view.enjoy lunch breaks and fun activities in our E-Bistro

**About us**:
We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
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