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Johannesburg, GP, ZA

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Leading and Developing staff in the two underwriting teams to enable each individual to maximize their potential for themselves and for Munich Re of Africa and so to give back to the regional industry.Leading the Property & Engineering Underwriting Teams to provide facultative reinsurance solutions to primary insurance companies in the sub-Saharan region.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Head of Specialist Property. leading and developing a team to deliver great property insurance solutions in the corporate and large commercial space in South Africa. We work closely with the major brokers across the country to understand our clients and assist them in mitigating risk.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Managing the Zurich Property Team within Zurich South Africa, Global Corporate. Underwriting domestic and international corporate business within a defined risk appetite.Retention of exisiting clients and acquisition of new clients.- Develop and maintain a go-to-market strategy for GC Property- Develop a pipeline of target accounts with strategies for each.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Managing and Underwriting a growing book of international corporate business within Allianz South Africa. Retention of exisiting clients and acquisition of new clients that fit our profile.
• Implement global property strategy in South Africa
• Promote and ensure underwriting consistency for all accounts quoted
• Embed global underwriting tools in local business process
• Develop and maintain executive contacts at key brokers and clients
• Network internally and coordinate within Allianz to ensure cross –functional efficiencies are realised and to promote awareness of the SA business within the wider Allianz world.

London, United Kingdom

• Managing a book of property and liability business primarily for international real estate owners and investors. Team of 6 people.
• Delivering the Property Investors Department Business Plan within Underwriting guidelines
• Target setting, performance review and personnel management for five direct reports
• Manage portfolio within targets set by Head Office
• Ensure Underwriting consistency and discipline
• Maintain broker contacts in the market

London, United Kingdom

• Leading a team with two direct reports to support the Underwriting Director and Line of Business Managers in monitoring, reviewing and improving underwriting performance. This was achieved mainly as follows.
• Safeguarding profitability and underwriting standards by ensuring that standards were correctly implemented and then subsequent quality review and audit
• Business support in responding to operational risk, regulatory, compliance and corporate governance issues such as contract certainty and TCF treating customers fairly
• Interface for underwriting risk management and compliance issues such as the mandatory annual bottom up risk review process / top risk assessment
• Catastrophe management and accumulation control
• Reinsurance data quality maintenance and reporting.

Munich Area, Germany

• Referral Underwriting according to agreed process & authority matrix
• Consolidating and setting up monthly country business performance reports to Head Office; Management and production of monthly summary KPI reports.
• Key learning: enhanced knowledge of and appreciation for Financial Lines; experience in dealing with Eastern Europe.

Munich Area, Germany

• Regional Responsibility 1999 to 2002 Asia Pacific, Italy, Canada, Mexico2002 to 2004 United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland.Responsibilities included:
• Specific country input in local target setting procedures
• Implementing global underwriting standards within the framework of local markets
• Head office underwriting of large referral cases
• Auditing of local underwriting portfolios
• Jointly developed first AGR nat cat accumulation reporting on a proactive monthly basis including allocated budgets and percentage budget usage

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