High Net Worth Underwriting Expert

2 weeks ago


Old Toronto, Canada Sun Life Financial Full time
Unlock Your Potential in High Net Worth Underwriting

At Sun Life Financial, we are seeking an experienced and skilled Bilingual Senior Underwriting Consultant to join our team. As a key player in our High Net Worth business, you will have the opportunity to work with dynamic colleagues and leaders who are dedicated to your success and well-being.

What We Offer:

  • A caring and supportive culture that values diversity and inclusion
  • A comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible benefits, pension plan participation, stock ownership program, pay for performance reward, paid vacation, care days, sick days, and sabbatical program
  • The chance to make a meaningful impact on the lives of individuals, families, and communities around the world

Your Role:

  1. Use effective teaching style for training and mentoring senior underwriting resources on financial and reinsurance aspects of high net worth business
  2. Complete risk assessment on larger and more complex cases with higher premium and face amounts (between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000) with ability to decline unacceptable risks
  3. Complete classification for life and critical illness, making effective use of full signing authority
  4. Apply holistic underwriting expertise in all areas of underwriting including medical, financial, and lifestyle factors to make sound and competitive underwriting decisions
  5. Perform referrals with the aim of mentoring senior underwriters
  6. Provide full explanations for our rationale on all decisions and inquiries
  7. Be called upon to meet with advisors and firms, and deliver presentations that support SLF underwriting philosophies
  8. Take leadership role in identifying areas of challenge and bringing forward well thought out recommendations for solutions through our Brighter Way program
  9. Be client and results focus, using a pro-active service orientation
  10. Have the commitment to support our distribution partners

Your Skills and Qualifications:

  • Bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada and worldwide
  • Must have excellent technical underwriting skills with a minimum of 7 to 10 years underwriting experience
  • Must make appropriate risk assessment decisions on applications in accordance with SLF underwriting guidelines and within signing authority
  • AALU designation and working towards the FALU designation
  • Demonstrate visible and positive leadership that actively supports change
  • Act as a change agent and help others adapt
  • Exceptional reinsurance negotiating skills
  • Empathy and practice principles of finesse to promote positive interactions
  • Demonstrated awareness of trends and changes in medicine, and initiative to bring forward recommendations to operational teams and development and governance as needed
  • Excel at building partnerships with advisors and wholesalers

Why Choose Us?

  • We are committed to creating a cleaner, more inclusive, and sustainable future for our communities
  • We offer continuous improvements that focus on enhancing your work and our clients' experience
  • We strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work

Salary Range: $78,000 - $128,000 per year



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