Underwriting Assistant

About Us:
Crombie Lockwood has been helping New Zealanders protect what's important for over 40 years. From our humble beginnings in Napier in 1978, we’ve proudly built up a network from Invercargill to Kaitaia. Today we are a team of around 850 people in 27 local offices. We place premiums in excess of $800 million on behalf of over 100,000 customers. In 2014 we joined Gallagher, the world’s fourth largest insurance broker. This international backing combined with our national resources enables us to negotiate the best benefits, conditions and premiums for our clients.

Overview:
**About us**:
Crombie Lockwood has been helping New Zealanders protect what's important for over 40 years.

From our small beginnings in Napier in 1978, we have proudly built up a network from Invercargill to Kaitaia. Today there is a team of around 800 people in more than 25 offices spread across the country.

We're one of the largest insurance broking companies in New Zealand, placing premiums in excess of $1 billion.

We take great pride on the professional quality of our advice and service that we deliver to our client base and the investment that we make into our people’s development through our tailored leadership development programs.

At Crombie Lockwood success doesn’t just happen, we make it happen. We’re always looking for new ways to do more and to be better, and that means hiring the best people

**About the role**:
We’re looking for an Underwriting Assistant in our Offshore Market Placements (OMPL) division to join our team in Central Auckland
**on a 12 month fixed term contract covering parental leave.**

OMPL is Crombie Lockwood's specialist underwriting agency. Based in Beaumont Street, Auckland, the team manages all underwriting, support, and administrative services for the OMPL agency. OMPL places the vast majority of business into Lloyd's, with our team of underwriters having authority to operate on behalf of Lloyd's syndicates in respect of all sorts of classes of business, from Commercial Property to Cyber Liability and everything in between.

The focus of this role is to provide administrative support to the wider team to enable the function to maintain its reporting timeline obligations to a timely and efficient manner, you will also be responsible for processing new business, renewals, endorsement and cancellation transactions within the required timeframe

An attractive package is on offer to the right team player who has the skills and the attitude to succeed.

**Responsibilities**:

- Issuing policy documentation and certificates of currency
- Processing of complex accounts
- Managing the OMPL placings box to a timely and efficient manner
- Following up brokers documents such as valuations and Fire & Emergency declarations
- Running various reports and actioning as required
- Supporting the underwriting team and technical manager with report requests
- Assisting the Finance team with account transactions and reconciliation
- General administration support to the team
- Keeping the Director OMPL, and underwriters (as appropriate) aware of any issues or potential areas of concern or problems requiring resolution
- Work with the underwriters so they are kept up to date on relevant issues

**Skills and Experience**:

- Strong administration skills with high competency in the Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent time management and the ability to prioritise work effectively
- Mature work ethic within a small team that is part of a larger organisation
- Experience in an Insurance environment is advantageous

**Benefits**:

- Comprehensive reward and recognition programme
- Discounted personal insurance
- Yearly wellness contribution
- Yearly flu vaccinations
- We support you to develop your skills with excellent learning and development opportunities within a friendly team environment.

**How to apply**: