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Sun Life

Medical Underwriter

Sun Life
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First indexed 17 Oct 2026

Description

You will be joining Sun Life, a company driven by its purpose to help clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

Your role as a Medical Underwriter involves performing risk assessments of medical cases up to a specified authorization limit, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures, providing support to sellers, reviewing underwriters' work, and handling ad-hoc assignments.

Responsibilities:

  • Perform risk assessment of medical case up to the specified authorization limit
  • Ensure assigned new business tasks comply with company's New Business Policy & Procedures, Underwriting Guideline and Rule Book, and service pledge
  • Provide seller enquiries support
  • Review Underwriters' work if required
  • Provide second approval of referred applications from Underwriters
  • Assist Team Leader or Managers in tracking application requests and producing monitoring and control reports
  • Handle ad-hoc assignments

Qualifications and preferred skills:

  • University degree holder
  • Competent knowledge of medical aspects, including anatomy, physiology, disease, medical abbreviations, and terminology
  • Uphold substandard medical underwriting authority
  • Competent knowledge of financial and medical underwriting
  • Proficiency in PC skills, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access
  • Good spoken and written English and Chinese communication skills
  • Customer-oriented mindset

Benefits:

  • 5-day workweek
  • Attractive salary
  • MPF
  • Group life and group medical insurance
  • Excellent career development opportunities