Regional Underwriting Auditor

Join Starr Companies as a Regional Underwriting Auditor and help strengthen underwriting quality and governance across Latin America. In this senior role, you’ll partner with business leaders to identify risks, improve controls, and support disciplined, sustainable growth across the region.

As a Regional Underwriting Auditor you will lead and execute a risk-based underwriting audit program across Starr's Latin America operations, providing independent assurance over underwriting quality, governance, portfolio management, regulatory compliance, and adherence to corporate underwriting standards. You will also serve as a trusted advisor to underwriting and business leadership, identify opportunities to enhance underwriting discipline, strengthen controls, improve portfolio performance, and support Starr's strategic growth objectives across the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute risk-based underwriting audits across LATAM business units and operating locations.
• Assess compliance with underwriting guidelines, delegated authority frameworks, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate underwriting quality, risk selection, pricing adequacy, documentation standards, and governance processes.
• Conduct audit planning activities including portfolio analysis, data analytics, file selection, and stakeholder engagement.
• Identify underwriting deficiencies, control weaknesses, emerging risks, and best practices.
• Develop practical recommendations and monitor remediation of audit findings.
• Build strong relationships with underwriting, claims, actuarial, legal, compliance, finance, and risk management teams.
• Prepare audit reports, trend analyses, and updates for senior leadership.
• Support special reviews, thematic audits, strategic initiatives, and management requests.
• Provide coaching, quality review, and technical guidance to junior audit team members.

Qualifications & Experience

• Underwriting experience in Property insurance, preferred and, in addition, other lines such as Casualty or Specialty Lines (Aviation, Marine, Financial Lines), a major plus.
• Some experience in conducting technical underwriting audits and quality reviews across commercial Property, Casualty, Financial Lines, Marine, Aviation, Accident & Health and Specialty portfolios would be an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of underwriting life cycle controls including risk assessment, exposure analysis, pricing adequacy, coverage structure, terms and conditions, referral practices, policy issuance and renewals.
• Experience in evaluating underwriting authority compliance, delegated authority arrangements, MGA oversight, portfolio governance and reinsurance considerations.
• Advanced understanding of underwriting performance metrics, portfolio profitability, accumulation management, loss trends, risk selection and underwriting discipline.
• Deep working knowledge of insurance regulatory frameworks across LATAM markets, particularly Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
• Experience in engaging with regional CEOs, country managers, CUOs, senior underwriting leadership and governance committees.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills with proficiency in Excel, Power BI, Copilot and underwriting portfolio analytics.
• Proven ability to identify root causes of underwriting deficiencies and develop practical recommendations that improve governance, controls and profitability.
• Bachelor degree in either Insurance, Risk Management, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related discipline required.
• Professional credentials such as CPCU, ARM or the equivalent regional certification preferred.
• Fluency in English required; Spanish and Portuguese strongly preferred.