Business Support Agent: Underwriting Apply locations: Durban, Kwazulu Natal
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted Yesterday
Time left to apply: End Date: November 29, 2024 (1 day left to apply)
Job requisition id: JR101220
Join TIH, home to some of South Africa's leading financial service providers, and grow your career while being part of an organisation with purpose.Job Purpose TIH is the holding company of some of South Africa's leading financial service providers. Our portfolio includes short-term insurers, a long-term insurer, health insurance as well as an insurance and personal finance comparison platform. We're pioneers with a hunger for best, bringing customer-focused innovation and service excellence to the financial services industry. We're an undivided team of diverse thinkers and doers who believe in leading through technology and pushing past their limits.
Responsibilities Underwriting Management: Support the underwriting of new business and renewal cases by verifying the completeness and accuracy of information and checking against standard rates, referring issues to senior colleagues when necessary.Insurance Policy Administration: Evaluate new and updated customer and policy information on the relevant systems and set up premium collections, liaising with the intermediary to clarify incomplete and potentially inaccurate information and referring unresolved issues to others.Document Management: Create, organize and maintain files containing the correspondence and records. Obtain all required information and documents to proceed with the claim.Administration: Produce, update and provide best practice support on a wide range of MS documents, databases and other departmental systems to support the work of more senior colleagues.Intermediary / Customer Service Management: Carry out standard intermediary / customer service activities and handle simple customer enquiries.Stakeholder Engagement: Support stakeholder engagement by arranging actions, meetings, and events.Compliance: Work within standard compliance systems and report simple non-compliance issues. Comply with service level agreements and quality standards.Personal Capability Building: Maintain and build relevant knowledge and ensure effective updating of own product and system knowledge. Develop and maintain excellent process or technical skills by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching.Continuous Improvement: Contribute to optimising work practices and procedures and generate new ideas to assist in identifying continuous improvements and growth for brokers.Data Management: Support others by working on a variety of data management tasks.Performance Management: Assure all work meets technical / operations standards for quality and timeliness; use performance management systems to improve personal performance.External Communications: Create positive experiences for clients by interacting courteously with them.Education Grade 12/ SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential); FAIS and RE5 qualification (Essential); Class of Business – product knowledge (Essential) (Required)
Experience 1 – 3 years Financial Services industry experience (Essential); Short-term insurance product knowledge / intermediary experience (Advantageous).
Think you have what it takes to be part of an unstoppable team who constantly finds better ways to give peace of mind? Don't wait, apply now.Telesure Investment HoldingsOur Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to success, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in our area.
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