Underwriting Assistant-Surety

### 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********### As a Surety Underwriting assistant, you will be working with the team in order to support underwriter needs, business processing, and service goals for our producer partners.  Day to day activities will generally include working directly with your underwriting team to support their premium production goals, providing support to our agent and broker partners, and working with your team to support both business processing and specialty program needs.#

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Duties & Responsibilities ********* ### Provide support for your national underwriting teams, assisting with duties in and around the underwriting process.* ### Provide support for your sales regions, assisting with marketing and sales efforts.* ### Provide support for your key agents and brokers, assisting with specialty programs and generally ensuring that we are “the easiest” market with which to conduct business.
* ### Create and issue new and renewal bond documents, ensuring systems of record are properly updated.* ### Assist the broker, the bondholder and the obligee with bond term transactions, such as bond endorsements, riders, cancels, broker of record updates, etc.* ### Research and help resolve billing and account current discrepancies.* ### Assist with underwriting (electronic) file maintenance and underwriting audit support needs.
* ### Assist the Surety Department by identifying and implementing improvements to our key systems and workflows.* ### Limited lines of authority may be granted to assist with the underwriting of new and renewal accounts.### #
******** Education & Experience********### ### Associate's degree preferred.  Must have completion of a high school education or its equivalent and more than 4 years of experience in a similar position. Experience in Surety, Insurance or Financial Services preferred.#
******** Knowledge, Skills, & Competencies********* ### Ability to interact professionally and work well in a high-performance team environment.* ### Ability to communicate effectively in all mediums to include phone, e-mail, and in person.* ### Ability to work independently and perform quality work within deadlines.* ### Ability to develop and maintain procedures.* ### Ability to multi-task.#
** 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**$21.69 - $29.82#
** 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 contributions (Up to 15% of eligible earnings)##
** Work & Life*** ### Paid time off (PTO) and holidays* ### Paid volunteer time off (VTO) to support our communities* ### Parental and family care leave* ### Flexible & hybrid work arrangements* ### Fitness center discounts and free virtual fitness platform* ### Employee assistance program##
** Health & Wellness*** ### Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits* ### Flexible spending and health savings accounts* ### 2x base salary for group life and AD&D insurance* ### Voluntary life, critical illness, & accident insurance for purchase* ### Short-term and long-term disability benefits#
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