About US:
UAP Holdings Limited is the pan-African Financial Services Company with a primary purpose of acting as a holding company for the various UAP businesses. The Group’s origins in Kenya date back to the 1920’s when Provincial Insurance Company of East Africa was incorporated. UAP Group embarked on a multi-phased restructuring plan in 2006 to shift from a traditional non-life insurance business to a broad-based Insurance and Financial Services Group. UAP Group has grown into a Pan-African Financial Services Group with a geographical footprint in six (6) countries namely Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The range of services and products have grown beyond General Insurance to include Life Assurance, Property Investments, Fund Management and related Financial Services such as insurance premium financing, financial advisory and securities brokerage.
Job Summary: The Underwriting Manager will be in charge of the oversight, administration, and the control of the company’s underwriting operations to ensure profitable, quality and timely service, (add business & product development)
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
· Manage sound underwriting (management, assessment and managing of risks) within for medical business to ensure we accept only quality business and we remain within the agreed loss ratio
· The incumbent will ensure documentation is prepared correctly and released to customers within the standard of service for effective service delivery
· Ensure that effective business relationships with all our stakeholders are maintained to assist in meeting overall company objective
· Ensure adherence and compliance with regulatory and treaty requirements
· In charge of signing of accountable documents to ensure that they are as per terms agreed and that they get the legal effect
· Responsible for approving and signing payment cheques within the authority limits for effective service delivery
· Ensure proper management of all security documents within the department for accounting purposes
· Manage staffing, supervision, training, coaching, mentoring, restructuring of the underwriting function for effective service delivery and motivation of staff
· Ensure the preparation of management report for the department to advice the status of the department at any time
· Oversee product development with medical business to ensure we remain relevant renewal retention business development / support
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
· The applicant must hold a good University degree
· Also hold Insurance qualification i.e. A.C.I.I
· A minimum of five years of related experience
· Working knowledge of insurance market application of re-insurance
· Excellent communication skills
· Computer literacy skills
· Good assessment and analytical skills
· Ability to interact at all levels
· Good leadership skills
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join the Insurance industry should send their applications via Email with an updated CV and cover letter with the subject head as Underwriting Manager to: hr@uap.co.ug.
Deadline: Friday, 23rd October, 2015 by 5PM