[Hiring] Junior Underwriter @Desjardins

Role Description

As an underwriting technician, you assist with medical underwriting to provide sound management of life and health insurance risks. You analyze and assess risks and review life and health insurance applications. You serve as a technical collaborator and provide discipline-specific support for your unit’s activities, initiatives, and processes. The ability to tailor your approach as needed is essential. You research and analyze processes, information management, and data processing. You draw on your sound decision-making skills to solve technical problems and help develop and improve methods and procedures.

• Provide technical support for projects and operational issues
• Handle requests for information and carry out technical studies, research, and analysis
• Serve as a resource person for the submission of solutions and action plans
• Prepare technical notes to enhance the skills and knowledge of users and their teams
• Help practitioners follow your unit’s processes and use its business solutions, tools, and systems

Qualifications

• College diploma in a related field
• A minimum of two years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of French is required
• Intermediate advanced proficiency of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members, and/or clients
• Action oriented
• Customer Focus
• Decision quality
• Differences
• Nimble learning
• Situational adaptability
• Tech savvy

Requirements

• Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
• Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
• Group insurance including telemedicine
• Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment
• * Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria

Company Description

At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity, and inclusion. We're committed to welcoming, respecting, and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients, and communities we serve.

If there's something we can do to help make the recruitment process or the job you're applying for more accessible, let us know. We can provide accommodations at any stage in the recruitment process. Just ask!