Underwriting Assistant, Healthcare

We are looking for Graduates or School leavers that are keen to start their professional career with an innovative Insurance business that loves to challenge the status quo. Due to continued growth we have a new opportunity for an Underwriting Assistant to join our Healthcare team, who are at forefront of underwriting emerging healthcare risks and constantly ensuring that our tailored policies are created to adequately address the bespoke exposures that healthcare providers face when operating in the digital world.

Key responsibilities

As an Underwriting Assistant you will support the end to end underwriting process from logging and processing submissions on CFC’s underwriting system. You’ll work closely with CFC underwriters.

You’ll develop a thorough understanding of CFC’s workflow processes and systems as well gaining exposure to insurance. A role as an underwriting assistant provides a great foundation for a career at CFC, with a number of our underwriters and underwriting team leaders starting their careers here! Day to day responsibilities will see you:

• Providing excellent administrative support to underwriting teams to ensure CFC can adhere to target turnaround times for our brokers and insureds;
• Managing the underwriting central inboxes and logging new and renewal submissions on CFC’s internal underwriting system
• Preparing various activity reports and spreadsheets as directed
• Administering the department diary, including chasing outstanding items such as subjectivities and renewal business
• Answering incoming calls and fielding queries as appropriate
• General ad-hoc administrative duties as required.

Skills, knowledge & expertise

We are looking for passionate individuals with a keen interest in a career in Insurance and the Healthcare sector. You will have:

• Impeccable organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work to meet tight deadlines and turnaround times;
• Resilient and able to operate effectively and accurately under pressure
• Excellent level of attention to detail including accurate written and numeracy skills
• Good communications skills both written and verbal
• Above all you’re a team player!

Core values

Love what you do:We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.

Challenge everything:We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.

Have fun, be good:Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.

CFC is committed to the principles of equal opportunities and creating an environment in which all individuals are always treated with dignity and respect. We encourage a diverse corporate culture of openness and appreciation to create an environment in which your talent can be developed in the best possible way. Should you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know.