Underwriting Administrator

Intellistaff Outsourced Services; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance client is looking for an Underwriting Administrator to manage the underwriting process for life insurance. The role requires adherence to underwriting guidelines and provides a high standard of service excellence to clients and colleagues. The successful candidate will be responsible for risk assessment, tele-underwriting, and managing daily underwriting cases while ensuring compliance and accuracy.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years in life insurance underwriting, preferably medical underwriting.
• Familiarity with tele-underwriting is advantageous.
• Intermediate skills in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).

Responsibilities

• Manage the underwriting process for life insurance applications and ensure compliance with standards.
• Conduct tele-underwriting and assess risks efficiently.
• Resolve underwriting cases and maintain workflow records accurately.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Time management

Organizational skills

Education

Matric (Grade 12)

Tertiary qualification in a medical field

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Our insurance client is seeking an Underwriting Administrator to manage and administer the underwriting process for life insurance applications by assessing risk, conducting tele-underwriting, and ensuring all decisions and records are handled accurately and efficiently.
The Underwriting Administrator ensures compliance with underwriting standards, delivers service excellence to clients and colleagues, and contributes to a smooth and professional onboarding experience for new policyholders.
Key Responsibilities:

• To adhere to the standard underwriting process and guidelines.
• To extract the days underwriting cases and to accurately process all underwriting cases within the SLA agreement of 24 to 48 hours.
• To contact the identified potential clients and to do the tele-underwriting and to make the appropriate underwriting decisions by using the underwriting manual within the stipulated turnaround time.
• To be professional and to provide a high level of service excellence when interacting telephonically with clients relating to their application and with the sales agents and other colleagues.
• To update the underwriting source file with the decision made and to inform the relevant sales agent accordingly.
• To ensure that all the daily underwriting admin work is correctly carried out by double checking that the workflow records have been updated, decision recorded, and the form saved to the client folder.
• To send the declined communication to clients whose applications were unsuccessful.
• To resolve 20 underwriting cases per day.
• To resolve undelivered communications relating to a client’s policy by contacting the client and updating the contact details when the underwriting cases are insufficient to meet your daily target.
• Upload underwriting decision and underwriting form to the client record on the system.
• To ensure that you respond to and resolve underwriting requests with the maximum TAT of 48 hours.
• To notify your manager of any priority issues, queries for escalation or complaints received.
• To be creative and use your initiative in resolving outstanding cases so that the underwriting decision can be finalised.
• Think of working smarter and of ways to improve the process and to add value to the client’s new business policy on boarding experience.
• You are responsible to ensure that you fully understand the relevant insurance products, the administration processes, and the systems so that you can operate efficiently and are competent in your job as an underwriter.
• To daily maintain your workflow Inbox tasks and any stat records for workflow management.
• To identify any additional training needs to be provided to the sales agents relating to the Asset Life credit protection product and to identify any improvement in the underwriting business process.

Education:

• Matric (Grade 12) required
• Tertiary qualification in a medical field is advantageous

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years in life insurance underwriting (medical underwriting preferred)
• Familiarity with tele-underwriting

Skills:

• Intermediate MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent communication, time management, and organizational skills
• Ability to manage workloads under pressure and meet daily targets

Attributes:

• Client-focused with a service excellence mindset
• Proactive, self-motivated, and solutions-oriented
• Team player with a strong sense of accountability
• Commitment to Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) principles

Desired Skills:

• underwriter
• underwriting
• administrator