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Accountant (French Speaking)

Believe Resourcing

Johannesburg

On-site

ZAR 400,000 - 600,000

Full time

Yesterday
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Job summary

A leading reinsurance firm in Johannesburg seeks a candidate for reinsurance accounting and claims services. The role includes managing a portfolio, processing claims, and interacting with clients. Strong accounting principles knowledge and proficiency in MS Excel are required, along with professional working proficiency in English and French.

Qualifications

  • 2 years of relevant experience in primary insurance or reinsurance.
  • Strong knowledge of accounting principles.
  • Good IT skills are essential.

Responsibilities

  • Provide reinsurance accounting and claims services to clients.
  • Handle reinsurance statements of account and deposits.
  • Independently manage claims from treaty and facultative business.
  • Administer payment transactions and coordinate broker business.
  • Support cross-unit working groups and initiatives.

Skills

Understanding of accounting principles
Proficiency in MS Excel
Professional proficiency in English
Professional proficiency in French

Education

Graduate in finance, accounting, or insurance

Job description

About our client :

As the world's leading reinsurance company with 40,000 employees at over 50 locations in all parts of the world, our client introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into manageable risk, they enable fundamental change.

Join them in working on topics today that will concern society tomorrow, whether that may be climate change, major construction projects, medical risk assessment or even space travel.

Role Description :

The incumbent of this role provides reinsurance accounting and claims services to clients and supports the accounting operations within the RI CFO unit. This requires effective and efficient handling of a reinsurance accounting and claims portfolio, which includes verification, processing, analysing, coordinating and administering technical accounting and claims transactions for all natures of contracts and all lines of business :

  • Checking, posting and analysing reinsurance statements of account for reinsurance business
  • Processing deposits
  • Handling reinsurance facultative business
  • Independently handling claims from our treaty and facultative business
  • Processing relevant large-loss notifications
  • Checking and posting reinstatement premiums
  • Coordinating and handling broker business
  • Performing credit control activities
  • Administering payment transactions (incoming and outgoing, including compliance with any financial sanctions and current account management
  • Handling treaty maintenance (accounting / claims-related issues)
  • Interacting with internal and external clients to successfully bring reinsurance accounting and claim matters to conclusion
  • Supporting cross-unit working groups and initiatives

Requirements :

  • Graduate finance, accounting, insurance or completed relevant apprenticeship
  • Relevant experience (2 years) of primary insurance or reinsurance
  • Knowledge of the principles of accounting
  • Comfortable in MS Excel and good IT skills
  • Professional working proficiency in English & French essential
  • If you would be interested in helping shape the future as part of a dynamic team, we look forward to hearing from you!

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