Bilingual Underwriting Assistant
| Company | Aviva |
|---|---|
| Location | Montreal, QC, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Entry Level/New Grad, Junior |
Requirements
- Bilingual French and English communication skills (written and verbal) is a requirement.
- Excellent articulation via phone, email, and in a meeting setting in both French and English is a requirement.
- Completion of a related educational degree/diploma and/or accreditation.
- Strong work proficiency in web and DOS based systems and databases; must have a solid understanding of the Microsoft Office Suite.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the capability to communicate at all levels (with internal and external partners) is meaningful to the role.
- Outstanding organization and time-management skills with the ability to adapt in a dynamic, priority-changing environment is critical for success in this role.
- Vested interest in learning and building a career in the commercial insurance space.
Responsibilities
- Working both collaboratively and autonomously while ensuring deadlines are met as part of a remote team is critical to the success of this role.
- Assisting underwriters in logging new submissions, processing declinatures as well as renewal and endorsement preparation while completing electronic filing of underwriting documents.
- Processing loss control reports, assisting underwriters in attaining D&B reports, preparing catastrophe analysis, insurance binders and other documents as required for underwriters.
- Responding to broker service requests on behalf of underwriting as well as following up on information needed from brokers on behalf of underwriting.
- Data entry in RTM, RTG and SFDC systems while updating tracking documents.
- Timely reconciliation of financial discrepancies working collaboratively and effectively with GCS Stakeholders.
- Produce reports, presentations and information summaries as required.
- Special projects as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred candidate has 1-2 years of administrative experience with strong attention to detail and accuracy. Time management skills are essential in an underwriting environment.