Senior Claims Handler - #1736198

About us

Avencia consulting is partnered with a leading insurer who are looking to hire a Senior Claims Handler in their Construction & Liability team in Leeds.

What you'll be doing

• Take full responsibility and accountability for your workload of claims covering varied classes of business but with a focus on Professional Indemnity, Employers' Liability, Public Liability, and Management Liability claims.
• Be able to prioritise work, have good time management skills, and work to deadlines to see claims through to final settlement in a proactive manner.
• Have a detailed knowledge of policy wordings and their application for Professional Indemnity, Employers' Liability, Public Liability, and Management Liability claims across all classes of business, in addition to a working knowledge of all UK Retail wordings.
• Ensure good and regular lines of communication exist with key brokers and maintain relationships.
• Contribute to team projects as required by the Liability & Construction Claims Manager and the Head of Insurance Claims.

Must haves

• A background working within insurance claims - either Liability & Construction, PI, EL/PL, D&O, or Cyber.
• Have either legal qualifications or be a claims practitioner with relevant experience, including studying towards or having a real desire to study towards CII qualifications - we fully fund and support the CII qualification.
• Good Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook, and must become fully competent with our in-house systems.
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills.

Benefits

• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave
• Hybrid working
• Support for qualifications
• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer