Medical Underwriting Assistant

SCOR; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

SCOR is seeking a proactive administrative trainee to support underwriting and claims services in London. You will process work, update databases, manage workflows, and help with MI and reporting while learning underwriting fundamentals.

This role offers exposure to reinsurance underwriting concepts, risk assessment, and developing authority with support from experienced underwriters. You will collaborate across teams to improve processes and contribute to timely decisions for clients.

Qualifications

• Self-starter with ability to manage own workload.
• Proactive and takes ownership of tasks.
• Strong interest in underwriting and career progression.
• Experience in Protection value chain across distributors, insurers, or reinsurers.
• Knowledge of Protection insurance/reinsurance concepts.
• Ability to build relationships with team and stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret MI results.
• Medical knowledge is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support quick and accurate assessment of underwriting cases and claims.
• Update databases, manage workflow, and monitor service levels.
• Check in-force data for existing policies.
• Assist with production of MI and performance analysis.
• Develop systems to automate administrative processes in underwriting and claims.
• Learn SCOR and clients' underwriting philosophies and how to apply these in practice.
• Support training, events or meetings as needed.
• Work with underwriters to progress toward underwriting authority.

Skills

Self-starter

Ownership

Interest in underwriting

Problem solving

Protection value chain

Protection insurance/reinsurance

Stakeholder relationships

MI interpretation

Medical knowledge advantageous

Education

Medical knowledge (A-levels or degree)

Job description

This role is key to supporting the delivery of Underwriting & Claims service, being responsible for processing work coming into the teams, updating databases and workflows whilst supporting the team with a variety of administrative tasks.

The underwriting & claims systems are going through transformation; the role holder would be involved in supporting increased automation as well as supporting with development of MI and report analysis.

Alongside administrative responsibilities this individual will train to develop their underwriting knowledge, with a structured plan in place to learn the skills involved in reinsurance underwriting such as medical knowledge, risk assessment and the interpretation of philosophy and treaties. The individual would be assessing cases with the support of experienced underwriters to work towards obtaining their own underwriting authorities.

As part of a small team this individual will get involved in a variety of work which all ultimately aims to help clients get the right underwriting and claims decision at the earliest opportunity. For example, following up on pending claims, reviewing MI, supporting the team with organising training, events or meetings.

This role provides opportunity to gain knowledge of reinsurance, working closely with other departments to build a strong foundation for a career in underwriting.

Responsibilities

Key duties and responsibilities

• Support quick and accurate assessment of underwriting cases & claims by creating and updating entries within databases, managing workflow and monitoring service levels
• Check SCOR in force data details of any existing policies
• Assess underwriting evidence and cases suggesting decisions & working towards an underwriting authority
• Learning SCOR and SCOR’s clients underwriting philosophies and how to apply these in practice
• Provide operational excellence supporting achievement of service levels.
• To develop the technical knowledge, judgement, and regulatory understanding required to underwrite Life and Health insurance risks
• Support underwriting and claims teams in the managing of client relationships and risk management
• Assist with the production of MI and the analysis of these to understand and drive performance and priorities
• Support the building of systems to automate the administrative processes in underwriting and claims

Required experience & competencies

Required experience & competencies

• Self-starter, able to manage own workload, be proactive and take ownership
• Strong interest in underwriting and desire to progress as an underwriter
• Ability to problem solve and take information from different sources to build a picture of risk assessment
• Experience in Protection value chain, at either distributor, insurer or reinsurer, including ability to work with multiple systems
• Knowledge of how Protection insurance/ reinsurance works
• Ability to build strong relationships both within the team and across stakeholders
• Ability to interpret MI results
• Medical knowledge (such as scientific A levels or degree) are advantageous
• Locations Level 6, London, United Kingdom, EC2N 4BQ, GB

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