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Mission Underwriting Managers

Capital, technology, and operations for underwriting

Senior Underwriter - Trade Credit

UnderwritingUpdated on Nov 14
Full-timeRemote in USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of relevant trade credit insurance experience, including substantial direct underwriting responsibility.
  • Direct underwriting experience with a trade credit insurer, specialty carrier, program administrator (MGU), or comparable trade credit underwriting organization.
  • Ability to analyze financial statements, payment experience, liquidity, leverage, profitability, cash flow, and working capital to assess commercial creditworthiness.
  • Strong understanding of trade credit insurance products, buyer limits, policy structures, insured percentages, deductibles, waiting periods, and concentration management.
  • Strong understanding of non-cancellable buyer-limit underwriting and the discipline required to assume credit exposure for a defined policy period.
  • Demonstrated independent underwriting judgment within delegated authority.
  • Established productive relationships with trade credit insurance brokers and ability to operate independently in a remote, entrepreneurial environment.
  • Must live in the United States and be authorized to work in the United States without employment sponsorship or a visa.
  • Able to work in a quiet environment, sit at a computer for extended periods, and regularly use hands and fingers; frequent talking or hearing and close, distance, color, peripheral, focus, and depth perception are required.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and underwrite profitable new and renewal trade credit business through FinSurance's broker network.
  • Build relationships with specialist trade credit brokers and major brokerage trade credit practices, generating new opportunities and expanding premium production.
  • Evaluate buyer, industry, country, concentration, and transaction risk using financial statements, payment history, bureau information, organizational structures, transaction documents, and other relevant information.
  • Structure and price non-cancellable buyer limits and trade credit solutions within delegated authority, considering tenor, concentration, attachment, indemnity, deductible, exposure, and information quality.
  • Underwrite Single Buyer, Named Buyer, Whole Turnover, Top-Up, Excess of Loss, and other approved specialty trade credit structures.
  • Distinguish difficult but insurable commercial credit from transactions effectively seeking a financial guarantee, performance guarantee, funding guarantee, or unconditional credit wrap.
  • Prepare complete and credible referrals for exposures above individual authority and collaborate with senior leadership, carrier, and reinsurance partners.
  • Help refine automated intake, document ingestion, entity resolution, credit-data enrichment, decision support, portals, reporting, and other Insurtech-enabled workflows.
  • Travel regularly for broker meetings, industry events, and business-development activities.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Single Buyer, Named Buyer, Top-Up, Excess of Loss, or other individually underwritten credit exposures.
  • Experience with larger commercial obligors and transactions requiring detailed financial-statement analysis.
  • Experience with supply-chain finance, trade finance, receivables finance, FIBC, lender-oriented structures, syndications, or quota-share arrangements.
  • Experience with domestic and international obligors and referrals to carrier or reinsurance partners.
  • Experience with underwriting systems, customer relationship management (CRM), policy administration, data vendors, automated intake, entity resolution, decision-support tools, or other Insurtech capabilities.
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills.

About the Company

Mission Underwriting Managers

Capital, technology, and operations for underwriting

Mission Underwriting Managers helps people start their own insurance program by providing capital, access to paper and reinsurance, and a turnkey technology and operations platform. It offers non-recourse capital to qualified underwriters with an equity upside, while handling governance, compliance, accounting, HR, and back-office tasks so clients can focus on underwriting and distribution. The platform speeds market entry by managing policy administration, regulatory filings, risk management, and administration, plus a panel of issuing carriers and reinsurers to reduce sourcing stress. Its goal is to enable qualified underwriters to launch and grow independent programs quickly and with scalable resources, while minimizing risk.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Arizona, United States
Founded
Not listed

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