Document Specialist - 1153

Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Inc.; City of Binghamton (NY); On-site; USD 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Inc. is seeking a Document Specialist to create, maintain, and test program coding sections. The role involves developing documents, running tests, and generating queries and reports for product filings.

The candidate will work with Publishing, database, and word processing tools to support new products, product maintenance, and regulatory changes within the Product Filing team.

Qualifications

• Associates degree in Business is required; related field acceptable.
• Proficiency with Word and Excel is required.
• Experience with C# or similar programming language is required.
• Experience in life insurance industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain program sections and other documents using Publishing software for correspondence generation for new products, product and state maintenance, product approvals, product enhancements, and regulation changes.
• Test program sections and documents; create test plans and manually generate correspondence to resolve printing and programming issues.
• Implement program sections and documents and ensure all aspects are functional; update documentation checklists and inform internal clients when items are complete.
• Create queries and reports using database software for testing purposes.
• Create and update documents using word processing software for the Product Filing team.

Skills

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

C# programming

Microsoft Access

2-3 years experience

Document development testing

Certifications

Education

Associates degree in Business

Tools

Microsoft Access

Job description

Salary Range: $22.42 To $26.00 Annually

As a Document Specialist, you will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and testing program coding sections. In this position, you will create queries and reports utilizing database software for testing purposes.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain program sections and other various documents by utilizing Publishing software for correspondence generation for new products, product and state maintenance, product approvals, product enhancements, and regulation changes. This includes, but is not limited to adding rules, conditional statements, variables for retrieving specific individual policy data and the formatting of data.
• Test program sections and documents including creation of test plans, manual generation of correspondence and resolution of various printing, programming and generation problems.
• Implement program sections and documents. Confirm all aspects of program sections are functional, update documentation checklists to ensure all program sections are complete and communicate to internal clients when all items have been implemented.
• Create queries and reports utilizing database software for testing purposes.
• Create and update documents utilizing word processing software for the Product Filing team.

Skills & Experience:

• Intermediate Microsoft Word and Excel experience required.
• Experience with Microsoft Access or comparable software required.
• Experience with C# Programming or comparable programming language required.
• Experience in life insurance industry required.
• 2-3 years of related experience preferred.
• Document development and testing experience preferred.
• Industry recognized certifications preferred.

Education Required:

Associates degree in Business required. Degree in related field of study is acceptable.

Pay Range:

$22.42 to $26.00 hourly

The level of the position will be determined by relevant skills, experience and qualifications.

The starting pay rate for this role is based on a variety of relevant factors, including location, education, experience, and skills.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Security Mutual is an Equal Opportunity Employer

About SML:

Security Mutual Life is a leading provider of life insurance, accumulation products and retirement-, business- and estate-planning services for individuals, families and businesses. Our innovative products help our clients meet their financial protection needs. Headquartered in Binghamton, New York, the Company was founded in 1886 and is recognized for its longstanding history of financial strength and stability.

We continually invest in technology. Our agents and employees are equipped with the latest tools and deliver outstanding service to our hundreds of thousands of policyholders throughout the United States.

We are committed to our neighbors and communities. Security Mutual and its employees help support a wide variety of community and charitable initiatives and organizations through our donations and service.

At Security Mutual our employees are among the Company's most valued assets. We offer competitive salary and benefits and our work environment reflects the Company's core values of trust, respect and integrity.