Assistant Underwriter

Underwriter Assistant (HYBRID)

Gramercy Risk Management is seeking an Underwriting Assistant (UWA) to join our expanding company. The UWA role serves to provide policy maintenance and rating to all insureds and cultivate broker relationships while supporting the Underwriting and Risk Management teams.

We are in search of a candidate to be full time with prior insurance industry experience. Currently, we look to fill the position in our main office, with some remote capability (3 days in office, 2 WFH).

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of company underwriting guidelines, coverage forms, enhancements, rating plans, and workflow.
• Recommend to lead Underwriter acceptability of commercial lines package and related lines, based on company underwriting guidelines.
• Effectively uses underwriting information such as inspection reports, claims history, and commercial applications to make appropriate underwriting recommendations.
• Assist lead Underwriter in maintaining and developing business relationships with assigned agencies.
• Maintain company service standards for underwriting and processing commercial lines applications, endorsements, renewal policies, and new business policies.
• Assist underwriters in obtaining underwriting data and documents and summarizing and compiling as needed.
• Importing all renewal and new business data into rating system for lead Underwriter.

Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalency required. College preferred.
• 2-4 years experience in Property & Casualty insurance. Construction experience strongly preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and time management skills.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel. Adept at learning new computer skills and programs.

GRAMERCY RISK MANAGEMENT

Gramercy Risk is a rapidly growing New York-based property & casualty insurance company focused on developing and managing programs for specialty classes of business. We take pride in our comprehensive and integrated approach to analyzing and managing risk. Gramercy has extensive in-house experience in the areas of underwriting, claims and litigation management, loss control and risk management, regulatory and compliance, coverage analyses, and business management.