Website Guardrisk
Guardrisk is a specialist South African cell captive insurance and risk financing solutions provider. It is the market leader in this field in South Africa and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Momentum Metropolitan Holdings (MMH), a large South African financial services group. The Guardrisk specializes in cell captive insurance and alternative risk transfer solutions.
Role Purpose
- To attend to day to day Non-Motor claims handling across various products and to provide supervisory oversight over a defined area.
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- Matric
- Higher Certificate in Insurance
- Completed RE exams for representatives
- Computer Literacy(MS Word, Outlook and Excel)
- Comfortable with Insurance Systems
- Intensive knowledge and experience of Commercial insurance products and complex claims
- 10 years of experience in a similar role
Duties & Responsibilities
- Handling / settling non-motor own damage claims in accordance with applicable policies and standard operating procedures
- Handling / settling claims within stipulated time frames and as per SLA’s in place
- Entering into settlement negotiations with clients / brokers on behalf of Underwriters
- Negotiating with various claims assessors and other related service providers
- Providing clients/ brokers with the highest standard of service
- Providing clients / brokers with feedback on claim progress at all times
- Ensuring diary system is implemented and adhered to at all times
- Rendering of assistance from time to time with adhoc tasks
- Maintaining and updating reserves
- Attending to payment requests
- Managing outstanding claims volumes
- Timely responses to email and telephonic messages
- Accurate record keeping
- Proper time keeping and task prioritization / management
- Attending to any other tasks as may be assigned from time to time
- Provide a supervisory function over a defined area within the claims department which shall include among others
- Providing technical advice to the area where required
Competencies
- Good interpersonal skills
- Negotiation skills
- Management Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to Detail
- Ability to work under pressure
- Team player