Surety Bond Administrator (New York Platform)

Job Description

About Acrisure:

Acrisure is a global Fintech leader that combines the best of humans and high tech to offer multiple financial products and services to millions of businesses and individual clients. We connect clients to solutions that help them protect and grow what matters, including Insurance, Reinsurance, Cyber Services, Mortgage Origination and more.

Acrisure employs over 17,000 entrepreneurial colleagues in 21 countries and have grown from $38 million to $4.3 billion in revenue in just over ten years. Our culture is defined by our entrepreneurial spirit and all that comes with it: innovation, client centricity and an indomitable will to win.

Job Summary:

The candidate will be involved with all aspects of surety bond administration, which include receiving surety bond requests from clients, coordinating the approval of these requests, creating surety bonds, and billing the premium for these bonds.

Acrisure is one of the nation's largest and fast-growing insurance brokerage. We work with businesses in many different industries to develop the best and most creative ways to meet our clients' surety bond needs.

In this role you will be responsible for the day-to-day servicing of Surety clients. This position works directly with the Client, Producers, and Surety Company representatives in handling the execution, underwriting and billing of bonds. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and self-motivated surety professional looking to grow their career with a top insurance brokerage.

Company Benefits:

• Competitive salary

• Generous paid time-off (PTO) and Paid Holidays

• 401K Savings Plan, including company match contribution

• Health Insurance / Dental InsuranceDental Insurance

• Flexible Spending & Health Savings Account options

• Life Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Long-Term Disability Insurance

• Paid Leave of Absence Benefits

• Pet Insurance

• Company-sponsored events and outings

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and update paper and electronic client financial and bond files

• Receive, manage and dispatch correspondence promptly

• Act as liaison with surety companies and maintain surety relationships

• Ability to understand and interpret information presented in a bond request

• Assist with resolution of client/carrier accounting issues

• Ability to quickly and accurately enter data from a bond request into the bond issuing system and bond forms

• Data input into Erlon and EPIC

• Tracking and requesting updated underwriting info from our clients

• Process bond renewals, new business, riders and more

• Prepare written correspondence, reports and analysis as needed for management

• Review construction contracts and assess project risk

This description is not meant to be all-inclusive and may be modified from time to time at the discretion of management.

Competencies:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and must be able to multitask in a very fast paced environment. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• Experience working with Surety, including in an insurance brokerage environment preferred

• Prior office-based customer service (other than food or retail)

• Prior bookkeeping and/or accounting experience (desirable)

• Prior customer service in banking or insurance is highly desirable

• Prior paralegal experience is highly desirable

• High school graduate required; college experience preferred

• Prior experience in a professional office setting (minimum of 3 years)

Technology Skills:

• Applied Epic or similar agency management software experience, preferred but not required

• Erlon or similar surety bonding software experience, preferred but not required

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Other Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to multitask, prioritize and work independently

• Attention to detail and commitment to a high level of accuracy

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Maintain a professional demeanor and positive attitude

• Ability to pass a clerical assessment

• Able to pass drug and background checks

• Neat, tidy, professional appearance

• Punctual

• Good team skills, works well with colleagues and peers

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Moderate stress due to regular deadlines and daily challenges

• High finger dexterity while typing documents and forms

• Occasionally lift 20 lbs.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job, and reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work is performed in a temperature-controlled, non-smoking office

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

• This position is NOT remote and requires work to be performed "in office"

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Pay Details:

Annual Salary: $60,000 - $85,000

Acrisure is committed to employing a diverse workforce. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. California residents can learn more about our privacy practices for applicants by visiting the Acrisure California Applicant Privacy Policy available at www.Acrisure.com/privacy/caapplicant.

Acrisure is equally committed to supporting social issues. In 2021, the Company co-founded Evolution Advisors, a joint venture focused on providing greater access and more effectively distributing insurance products and financial services to minority-owned enterprises. In its home of Grand Rapids, Acrisure provided $15 million to create the Acrisure Center for Innovation in Children's Health at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.

To Executive Search Firms & Staffing Agencies: Acrisure does not accept unsolicited resumes from any agencies that have not signed a mutual service agreement. All unsolicited resumes will be considered Acrisure's property, and Acrisure will not be obligated to pay a referral fee. This includes resumes submitted directly to Hiring Managers without contacting Acrisure's Human Resources Talent Department.