Job Description
**Job Title:** Claims Assessor **Job Summary:** Assess and evaluate life insurance claims, interpreting medical evidence and ensuring compliance with company procedures and legal guidelines. Ready to utilize your knowledge in assessing claims within a dynamic global company? Make a meaningful impact as a Claims Assessor. The role involves assessing Life, Serious Illness, Bill Cover, Income Protection, Pension Life Cover, and Disability Claims. You will review medical evidence on behalf of the Company, ensuring that all aspects of the Risk claims assessment process comply with Claims Procedures, Legal, and Compliance guidelines as well as deadlines and company procedures. Key responsibilities: • Assess new claims and issue relevant medical and financial requirements • Calculate the claim benefits owed to our customers and handle the ongoing payment of these benefits • Review existing claims to ensure the terms for ongoing payment to our customers continue to be met • Correspond with Advisors, Employers, Claimants, Reinsurers, Legal Representatives, Next of Kin, and Doctors • Develop a high level of technical and medical expertise • Build and maintain effective working relationships within various partners • Support and train more junior claims staff **Required Skills and Qualifications:** • Proven experience in a Life Assurance Company, preferably in a Claims or Underwriting environment • Diploma in Life and Disability Claims (DLDC) or the CII Diploma in Life and Disability Underwriting (DLDU) or QFA Qualification or Accredited Product Advisor (Life Assurance & Pensions) • Possess and demonstrate a level of general technical knowledge and other skills sufficient to handle assigned caseload of claims within designated handling authority • Ability to read and interpret medical reports • Exhibit strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills • Demonstrate careful attention to detail, diligent and conscientious in the accuracy of their work • Excellent written and verbal communication skills