Senior Bilingual Underwriter

5 days ago

Calgary, Alberta, Canada Foresters Financial Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Bilingual Underwriter to join our team at Foresters Financial. As a key member of our underwriting team, you will be responsible for reviewing insurance application files, establishing relationships with producers, and making informed underwriting decisions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Application Review: Review insurance application files for new business, reinstatements, and coverage change requests, ensuring all necessary information is gathered and evaluated.
  • Producer Relationships: Establish and maintain effective relationships with producers, communicating underwriting decisions and providing guidance on application requirements.
  • Investigative Costs: Balance investigative costs for tests/assessments versus risk management requirements to make informed underwriting decisions.
  • Medical Tests/Assessments: Order required medical tests/assessments, arrange for additional assessments from professional resources, and contact producers for missing application information.
  • Information Analysis: Research, interpret, and analyze information relevant to the application, including product details, legislation, rate manuals, medical/drug reference books, and other relevant sources.
  • Documentation: Efficiently document the applicant file on the Underwriting systems as additional information is received, coding and entering data from received medical reports.
  • Underwriting Assessment: Complete a full underwriting assessment of the application following the receipt and review of all required information, considering competing factors such as new/increased business income versus risk of significant financial loss.
  • Decision Making: Finalize the underwriting decision within approval limits as assigned by the Chief Underwriter, distinguishing standard from preferred and preferred plus risks.
  • Reinsurance: Initiate processes to refer application files for reinsurance as required.
  • Correspondence: Compose related correspondence to members/producers regarding the information required to assess the application, advisory letters to the member and producer regarding the approval/decline of the application, and letters containing confidential medical information to the applicant's physician.
  • Legislation and Regulations: Participate in the research, review, and analysis of underwriting related legislation and regulations, and current underwriting issues and trends.
  • Collaboration: Work with the Medical Director on cases as required and participate in the review and development of new/revised underwriting policies, procedures, systems, and standards.
Key Qualifications
  • Experience: 5+ years of underwriting experience.
  • Certifications: Achieved AALU and working towards FALU/FLMI designations.
  • Knowledge: Strong medical and financial underwriting knowledge, experience with simplified issue and final expense type products, and knowledge of underwriting theory, principles, methods, systems, processes, and standards.
  • Skills: Demonstrated risk assessment skills, leadership skills, consultation skills, strong verbal and written communication skills in both French and English, and ability to learn and understand in detail Foresters insurance products and contract provisions.
  • Language: Strong verbal and written communication skills in both French and English.

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