Support marine underwriting by preparing policy documents, ensuring regulatory compliance and accurate statistical coding, maintaining underwriting files, reformatting/importing data, reviewing facultative certificates, resolving reinsurer discrepancies, producing operational and production reports, assisting user acceptance testing, and auditing colleagues' work.
About Us We’re not like other insurance companies. From our specialty products to our business model, our culture to our results — we’re different. Different is who we are, and how we work, interact, deliver and succeed together. Creating a different and better insurance experience doesn’t just happen. It takes focus and a shared passion for going beyond the expected to forge relationships and deliver care that makes a difference. This approach rises from and is supported by our talented, ethical and smart team of employee owners united around a single purpose: to work alongside our customers and partners when they need us, in unexpected ways, with exceptional results. Apply today to make a difference with us. RLI is a Glassdoor Best Places to Work company with a strong, successful background. For decades, our financial track record has been stellar — a testament to our culture and validation of our reputation as an excellent underwriting company.Position PurposeSupport Underwriting by creating policy documents, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, maintain electronic underwriting files, provide basic operational support for the Marine product line’s underwriters, and catastrophe modeling on current and potential risks. Review insurance certificates, resolving discrepancies with reinsurers, providing operations, production, and underwriting reports, audit work of others.Principal Duties & Responsibilities
- Create policy documents which represent the insurance transaction bound by the underwriter.
- Ensure the statistical coding and policy issuance complies with regulatory requirements for each insurance transaction.
- Maintain electronic and/or physical underwriting file.
- As necessary, re-format data for import into front end system.
- Provide basic operational support for the product line’s underwriters.
- Review facultative insurance certificates to ensure the terms identified by the reinsurer are consistent with terms expected by underwriter.
- Resolve accounting discrepancies with facultative reinsurers.
- Provide operational, production, and underwriting reports to underwriting staff as requested, utilizing front-end systems and/or Business Objects.
- Assist with User Acceptance Testing of systematic changes.
- Audit the work of others.
- May be given authority to review/approve endorsements, review/analyze risks, review terms and conditions of underlying policies, review inspections of risks, each of which would be on behalf of Underwriting.
- Typically requires a high school diploma; Associates degree preferred
- 0-2 years of related experience for consideration
- [OR] equivalent level of education and experience
- Ability to follow operations procedures as outlined by the Operations Manager.
- Ability to meet processing deadlines with minimal error.
- Ability to manage a variety of projects, both long- and short-term simultaneously.
- Ability to use database software including Windows operating systems, computer network environment and printers to process insurance policy changes.
- Accurate data entry.
- Superior Excel skills to peer review formulas, formatting, and data cleansing of large spreadsheets.
- Annual bonus plans
- Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
- 401(k) — automatic 3% company contribution
- Annual 401k and ESOP profit-sharing contributions (Up to 15% of eligible earnings)
- Paid time off (PTO) and holidays
- Paid volunteer time off (VTO) to support our communities
- Parental and family care leave
- Flexible & hybrid work arrangements
- Fitness center discounts and free virtual fitness platform
- Employee assistance program
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- 2x base salary for group life and AD&D insurance
- Voluntary life, critical illness, & accident insurance for purchase
- Short-term and long-term disability benefits
- Training & certification opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement
- Education bonuses
RLI Insurance Company Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, United States
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