Senior Automation Specialist, Underwriter

Overview

How You’ll Work Work Solution: Hybrid

Responsibilities

What You'll Do The Senior Automation Underwriter combines knowledge of life insurance underwriting with effective programming and analytical techniques to help the company better understand and improve its underwriting processes and systems. They play an important part of our mortality management efforts by monitoring results of our automation, highlighting areas for improvement and working with key stakeholders to prioritize and implement changes.

• Monitors underwiring process automation to ensure outputs align with company standards.
• Identifies areas to improve automation throughput, reduce mortality slippage and create efficiencies in the underwriting process.
• Analyzes large volumes of data using Excel, SQL, Python or other tools to identify gaps in risk selection processes.
• Trains and coaches underwriters on the use of automation and reporting tools.
• Partners with Risk management and Innovations team to review new data tools.
• Supports the development and deployment of changes to existing underwriting systems and tools and the introduction of new tools and processes through input in workflow design and ongoing monitoring, reporting and training.
• Develops and maintains up to date process and training documentation.
• Assists in the development of the reflexive application processes.
• Identifies, develops and otherwise monitors needed changes to rules/logic governing the company’s underwriting rules engine.

Core Competencies

• Applies analytical skills and the ability to identify trends in data to make recommendations to improve business practices and related outcomes.
• Effective project manager and multi-tasker, leveraging organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills in interactions across departments.
• Strong technical knowledge related to process and reporting automation. Leverages an ability to use machine language to extract and analyze data.
• Effective Communication– Excellent verbal and written communication skills, to include presentations. The ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with key stakeholders in Underwriting, New Business, IT, Actuarial and Data Science.

Qualifications

Basic Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Preferred)
• 5+ years working in life insurance underwriting (Required)
• 2+ years working with data analysis and process automation tools (Excel or SQL or Visio or Python, etc.). (Required)
• Experience working with an insurance underwriting rules engine (Preferred)
• Industry education/certification such as FLMI, ACS, CLU, or FALU (Preferred)

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, talk, hear and concentrate. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. This job requires the ability to perform duties contained in the job description for this position, including, but not limited to, the above requirements. Reasonable accommodation will be made for otherwise qualified applicants as needed to enable them to fulfill these requirements.