Underwriting Senior Consultant (Underwriting Claims and Risk Management)

You are as unique as your background experience and point of view. Here youll be encouraged empowered and challenged to be your best self. Youll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day youll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

At Sun Life were driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring authentic bold inspiring and impactful.

When you join Sun Life youll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Location: hybrid work from home

This role requires a blend of underwriting expertise analytical skills and a forward-thinking approach to drive innovation increase straight through underwriting and improve risk assessment. The successful candidate will collaborate with many other teams including data science underwriting operations IT corporate underwriting pricing and data analytics to complete initiatives.

What will you do

• Build maintain and enhance the rules in the Underwriting Rules Engine (URE) to manage the underwriting risk while driving increases in Straight Through Underwriting (STE)
• Prepare reports and analyze underwriting data to identify opportunities to improve Straight Through Underwriting
• Support the development of analytical underwriting models by acting as a subject matter expert
• Conduct protective value studies to monitor the performance of the analytical models and to improve risk selection
• Participate in or lead projects to drive underwriting innovation by collaborating cross functionally
• Training and support of underwriting operations as it relates to the tools developed by our team

What do you need to succeed

• Experience/familiarity with Tableau advanced Excel skills and an interest/background in data analysis
• At least five years of life and critical illness underwriting experience with current authority in both
• Exhibit a strong interest in the future of underwriting and underwriting innovation
• Be a Certified Professional Underwriter with a FALU designation or working to achieve the designation
• Strong analytical and time management skills with the ability to multi-task and make decisions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• As this position is posted in several locations we specify that bilingualism (French English both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other addition to Base Pay eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

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We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing screening interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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