Reinsurance Manager practice interview
Designing treaty protection, placing capacity, controlling recoveries and aligning reinsurance with the underwriting portfolio. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview examines how you design, place and administer reinsurance protection for an insurer's portfolio. The panel will assess your grasp of treaty structures, exposure data, wording control, recoveries, negotiation and leadership across underwriting, claims and finance.
How to prepare
- Review how portfolio growth, concentration and loss experience affect programme structure and retention.
- Prepare an example of negotiating capacity, price or wording during a difficult renewal.
- Revise the controls needed for declarations, bordereaux, contract certainty and recoveries.
- Practise explaining a reinsurance recommendation to senior leaders in commercial terms.
- Think through how you would resolve a disputed recovery without damaging a key relationship.
Common mistakes
- Recommending a structure without relating it to the underlying portfolio.
- Focusing on price while ignoring wording, security and claims response.
- Waiting until renewal to discover poor exposure data.
- Treating recoveries as solely a claims or finance responsibility.
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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