Underwriting​/Operations Assistant - Commercial Excess Liability; Glastonbury, CT; Bala Cynwyd

Position: Underwriting/Operations Assistant - Commercial Excess Liability (Glastonbury, CT; Bala Cynwyd, [...]
### RLI is a company with a strong, successful background. For decades, our financial track record has been stellar — a testament to our culture and validation of our reputation as an excellent underwriting company.#
**** Position Purpose
**** Support Underwriting by creating policy documents, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, order inspections and premium audits, maintain electronic underwriting files, solicit renewal transactions, provide basic operational support for the product line’s underwriters, and provide back-up support for the Operations Representative.  Review insurance certificates, resolving discrepancies with reinsurers, providing operations, production, and underwriting reports, working with producers, audit work of others, given authority in some cases on behalf of Underwriting.###

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Duties & Responsibilities
******* Create policy documents which represent the insurance transaction bound by the underwriter.
* Ensure the statistical coding and policy issuance complies with regulatory requirements for each insurance transaction.
* Order inspections, premium audits, and loss runs as required.
* Maintain electronic and/or physical underwriting file.
* Solicit renewal transactions.
* As necessary, re-format data for import into front end system.
* Provide basic operational support for the product line’s underwriters.
* As requested by underwriters, develop underwriting information from the internet and other data sources.
* Provide back-up support for the Operations Representative position.
* Review facultative insurance certificates to ensure the terms identified by the reinsurer are consistent with terms expected by underwriter.
* Resolve accounting discrepancies with facultative reinsurers.
* Provide operational, production, and underwriting reports to underwriting staff as requested, utilizing front-end systems and/or Business Objects.
* Contact producers to determine appropriate courses of action.
* Assist with User Acceptance Testing of systematic changes.
* Train Operations Assistants with Level 1 experience in which s/he is located or in other branch offices.
* Audit the work of others.
* May be given authority to review/approve endorsements, review/analyze risks, review terms and conditions of underlying policies, review inspections of risks, each of which would be on behalf of Underwriting.#
****** Education & Experience
******* Typically requires a high school diploma;
Associates degree preferred
* 2+ years of related experience for consideration* [OR] equivalent level of education and experience#
******** Knowledge, Skills, & Competencies
********* Ability to follow operations procedures as outlined by the Operations Manager.
* Ability to meet processing deadlines with minimal error.
* Ability to manage a variety of projects, both long- and short-term simultaneously.
* Ability to use database software including Windows operating systems, computer network environment and printers to process insurance policy changes.
* Accurate data entry.
* Superior Excel skills to peer review formulas, formatting, and data cleansing of large spreadsheets.#
** Compensation Overview**### The base salary range for the position is listed below. Please note that the base salary is only one component of our robust total rewards package  salary offered will take into account a number of factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, scope & responsibilities of the role, qualifications/credentials, talent availability & specialization, as well as business needs.

The below range may be modified in the future.##
** Base Pay Range**$23.39 - $32.16#
** Total Rewards**### At RLI, we're all owners. We hire the best and the brightest employees and allow them to share in the company's success through our Total Rewards. With the Employee Stock Ownership plan at its core, the Total Rewards program includes all compensation, benefits and perks that come with being an RLI employee.##
** Financial Incentives*** ### Annual bonus plans* ### Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)* ### 401(k) — automatic 3% company contribution* ### Annual 401k and ESOP profit-sharing…