# Intermediate Underwriter

Job Advert Summary This role reports to the Team Manager: Underwriting. The Intermediate Underwriter is responsible for underwriting life, disability, critical illness, sickness and permanent incapacity cover within agreed delegation of authority limits. The role makes underwriting decisions within its assigned authority and takes end-to-end ownership of allocated cases. The incumbent is customer facing and is responsible for clearly motivating underwriting decisions and discussing these with advisers in a professional, factual and service-oriented manner. The role also deals with reviews, non-disclosure matters, technical underwriting queries and complaints as and when required. The Intermediate Underwriter plays a key role in ensuring accurate risk assessment and member satisfaction through timely, well-reasoned and quality underwriting decisions. The role is accountable for sustainable productivity, achievement of underwriting service levels, quality and audit compliance, completion of mandatory learning, adoption of approved AI-enabled ways of working, and conduct aligned to PPS values and leadership principles. Performance against these accountabilities will be assessed using

- **Id**: 3962531
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pps-intermediate-underwriter>
- **Role**: Finance
- **Role family**: Finance
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T12:27:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T12:27:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6275
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property & Casualty Insurance, Life Insurance & Annuities

## Company

- **Id**: 2547568
- **Name**: PPS
- **Domain**: pps.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pps-co-za>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: eRecruit

## Technologies

- **Outlook** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T12:27:56Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T13:53:26Z

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