Insurance Technician

Travail Employment Group; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Travail Employment Group is seeking an established Technician to join our client's Operations Team, providing technical processing support to the Technical Team and Broking Divisions in line with compliance, FCA and internal audit guidelines.

You build on the Entry Technician role, using broader technical and market knowledge to make routine decisions, supervise colleagues, and help ensure timely, accurate processing while maintaining strong relationships with internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Sound understanding of insurance principles and the policy lifecycle.
• Understanding of applicable broking, claims, premium and delegated authority processes.
• Understanding of London Market processes, insurance distribution channels and the wider insurance industry.
• Understanding of the link between the role and IBA.
• Ability to analyse information, make routine decisions and solve problems using policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Complete standard and increasingly non-standard processing with moderate guidance.
• Own and prioritise workload to meet agreed service levels, timeframes and accuracy standards.
• Use judgement to identify issues, analyse information and resolve routine problems within own authority.
• Create, process and check accurate documentation, data and management information using relevant systems.
• Perform quality control checks on other technicians' work in accordance with agreed processes.
• Train and support less experienced colleagues as required.
• Identify potential errors and omissions risks, recommend appropriate action and escalat promptly.
• Contribute to ad hoc tasks, projects and improvements to team processes or data quality.
• Manage competing priorities and adjust plans when requirements change.
• Build trusted relationships within the team and effective relationships with wider internal stakeholders.
• Use feedback, data and technology to improve own performance and service delivery.

Skills

Insurance principles

Policy lifecycle

Broking processes

Claims processes

Delegated authority

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

CII cert or equivalent

Education

CI I Certification or equivalent

Tools

Management information systems

Job description

As an Established Technician in our clients Operations Team, you will provide technical processing support to the Technical Team and Broking Divisions through standard and increasingly non-standard processing, in line with compliance, FCA and internal audit guidelines.

Building on the Entry Technician role, you will work with moderate guidance. You will use your broader technical and market knowledge to make routine decisions, resolve issues, check the work of others and support less experienced colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Complete standard and increasingly non-standard processing with moderate guidance.
• Own and prioritise workload to meet agreed service levels, timeframes and accuracy standards.
• Use judgement to identify issues, analyse information and resolve routine problems within own authority.
• Create, process and check accurate documentation, data and management information using relevant systems.
• Perform quality control checks on other technicians' work in accordance with agreed processes.
• Train and support less experienced colleagues as required.
• Identify potential errors and omissions risks, recommend appropriate action and escalat promptly.
• Contribute to ad hoc tasks, projects and improvements to team processes or data quality.
• Manage competing priorities and adjust plans when requirements change.
• Build trusted relationships within the team and effective relationships with wider internal stakeholders.
• Use feedback, data and technology to improve own performance and service delivery.

Knowledge/Skills/Qualifications

• Sound understanding of insurance principles and the policy lifecycle
• Understanding of applicable broking, claims, premium and delegated authority processes.
• Understanding of London Market processes, insurance distribution channels and the wider insurance industry.
• Understanding of the link between the role and IBA.
• Ability to analyse information, make routine decisions and solve problems using policies and procedures.
• Ability to work with moderate guidance and recognise when escalation is required.
• Strong communication, organisation, customer service and stakeholder relationship skills.
• CII Cert, or equivalent relevant technical knowledge and experience.