Associate Claims Operations Professional

Travelers; Redhill; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Associate Claims Operations Professional, where you'll support the claims function and gain valuable experience in the insurance industry. This role offers a unique opportunity to work collaboratively within a dynamic team, handling essential administrative tasks while developing your skills in a supportive environment. With a commitment to innovation and community, this established industry player provides a hybrid work model to enhance your work-life balance. If you're eager to kick-start your career in insurance, this is the perfect opportunity to grow and thrive.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Retirement Contributions

25 Days Holiday Entitlement

Wellness Programme

Volunteer Encouragement

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a general insurance claims department preferred.
• Willingness to pursue Chartered Insurance Institute studies.

Responsibilities

• Carry out administrative tasks and partial claim handling functions.
• Assist with MI and Analytics, financial control, and monitoring.

Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Data Entry

Microsoft Excel

Customer Relationship Skills

Education

GCSE or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

I90

Openbox

Lloyds Claims Systems

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category Claim Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? We’re excited to be hiring for an Associate Claims Operations Professional to join our team based in Redhill, London, Manchester, or Dublin.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone eager to kick-start a career in the insurance industry. We’re looking for a individual with strong communication and organisational skills, and confidence using Excel.

In this role, you'll play a key part in supporting our claims function— harvesting claims data, helping to streamline processes, and handling essential administrative tasks like setting up new claims. You’ll be joining a collaborative team where you’ll gain exposure in the claims function and the wider insurance industry.

Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company’s discretion.What Will You Do?

• Carry out administrative tasks, partial claim handling functions, including invoice approval, minor claim adjudication (dispute resolution) and other activities which do not require certification, vendor activity co-ordination.

• Assist with MI and Analytics, financial control, assessment, monitoring and validation, in accordance with team best practice.

• Provide functional resiliency by supporting our Claim teams based in multiple locations across Claim Europe.

• Achieves or surpass service expectations of internal and external customers as agreed by the business.

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, business partners, customers, agents and others to achieve organisational goals and create better outcomes.

• Openly communicate knowledge of actions with manager and colleagues in order to consider and better understand the impact on other technical, operational, sales and financial disciplines.

• Other duties as assigned.

• As an employee you are expected to act in an ethical manner at all times. You will ensure you understand all compliance and regulatory requirements for your role by completing all necessary training and certifications.

• As an employee we expect your actions and outcomes will at all times meet local regulatory and supervisory approaches to ensure fair treatment of our customers. You will ensure you keep adequate records of all transactions undertaken with customers, brokers and all other parties.

Be Committed, Be Connected, Be Creative and Be Energised – these are the values we are passionate about. Understanding and embracing our values will shape your success and contribute to making Travelers Europe a great place to work.

To be successful, you will need to consistently deliver a great experience in every customer contact; connect with the right partners internally to find creative solutions to problems; be a role model; and consistently deliver on your commitments.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Previous relevant work experience gained within a general insurance claims department or in a general insurance or financial services support role preferred.
• Working knowledge of I90, Openbox and Lloyds claims systems is preferred.
• Experience of data entry processes preferred.
• Basic customer relationship skills.
• Intermediate written and oral communication skills.
• As appropriate to location.
• Ireland: willingness to commence or maintain the Minimum Competency Requirements of the Insurance Institute of Ireland.
• UK: willingness to commence or continue Chartered Insurance Institute studies.

What is a Must Have?

• Minimum GCSE level or equivalent educational standard or relevant experience in a claims or claims support role.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products such as Excel, Word and Powerpoint.

What Is in It for You?

• Private Medical Insuran ce:On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction.
• Retirement: Travelers will make a core contribution of a percentage of salary to your Pension Plan. Additionally, if you decide to contribute to the plan, you will receive an increased company contribution.
• Holiday Entitlement:Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year.
• Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health programme provides access to free professional counseling services and other resources that support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement:We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/ .