Reinsurance Assistant practice interview
Supporting treaty and facultative records, checking risk cessions, reconciling accounts and following up with counterparties. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Junior
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A reinsurance assistant helps maintain the records and communication behind risk transfer arrangements. The panel is looking for a sound grasp of basic reinsurance, careful checks of financial and policy information, controlled reconciliation and reliable follow-up with several parties.
How to prepare
- Revise the purposes of reinsurance and the difference between treaty and facultative cover.
- Learn the basic meaning of cession, retention, limit, share, premium and bordereau.
- Practise tracing a figure from a source policy through a calculation to an account record.
- Prepare an example of investigating a discrepancy and documenting the resolution.
- Think through how you would manage time-sensitive confirmations and overdue responses.
Common mistakes
- Using specialist terms without being able to explain the underlying risk transfer.
- Correcting a difference without preserving the source record and approval trail.
- Assuming silence from a counterparty means that placement has been confirmed.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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