Associate Underwriter

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**Responsibilities**:

- Service a book of business under the direct supervision of an underwriter
- Evaluate, classify, and rate each risk to determine acceptability, coverage, and pricing to prepare quotes
- Bind risk, post the invoice, and process technical data
- Assist with new business development
- Order and follow up on inspections, plus handle endorsement requests and referrals for the underwriter
- Manage relationships with retail agents and follow up on any outstanding information needed to complete the underwriting file

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 2+ years of Underwriting support or industry experience with excess and surplus lines is preferred
- Demonstrated proficiency and previous experience in sales and marketing is preferred
- Proven organization skills and ability with a strong attention to detail
- Interest in continued education and professional development to obtain full underwriting authority
- Technologically savvy and data driven

**Benefits**:

- Competitive base compensation & lucrative sales incentive bonus plan
- Health benefits
- Employer matched RRSP
- Employer paid continuing education courses, designations and licensing
- Many opportunities for career advancement

About Our Company:
Burns & Wilcox, the flagship organization of H.W. Kaufman Group, is North America’s leading wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager. Burns & Wilcox offers wide ranging and comprehensive solutions to serve retail insurance brokers and agents of all sizes, from the large houses to the more than 30,000 independent brokers and agents worldwide. Fueled by its freedom from Wall Street and private equity, Burns & Wilcox is a privately owned company whose standards of service, depth of market relationships and outstanding talent are unsurpassed in the specialty insurance sector.

**Equal Opportunity Employer**

The H.W. Kaufman Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other status or condition protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

In addition, Kaufman will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.