Senior Claims Adjuster – Professional Indemnity / Financial Lines
Ipswich/London, UK
At AXA XL our Claims team sets us apart. Our experienced Claims professionals use their specialised expertise to handle even the most complex claims seamlessly. How do you make a good thing better? You focus on excellence and creating a culture of continuous improvement. You create an environment that fosters collaboration, customer service and colleague development. And you build a team of passionate and innovative claims experts who see success as a reason to roll up their sleeves and dive for improvement.
As a Senior Claims Adjuster, you will play a critical role in the Professional Lines team by managing and resolving claims for our customers. You will work closely with your manager coordinating with fellow claims adjusters to bring claims to resolution. You will interact and collaborate with the practice leader and the underwriting team and with brokers, clients and experts on assigned accounts taking ownership of critical issues relating to claims management.
DISCOVERyour opportunity
What will your essential responsibilities include?
· Managing a portfolio of claims up to a pre-determined authority level. Pro-active engagement with all stakeholders with the aim to resolve claims promptly, fairly and with due expertise.
· Strict adherence to the Global Claims Handling Practices.
· Always demonstrate AXA XL behaviours and values.
· Ensuring all claims are reserved wherever possible, within the Reserving guidelines.
· Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with Underwriters, Actuaries and other departments as required.
· Ensuring that communications, new claims and notifications are dealt with in a timely manner and that any trends are identified and reported to relevant stakeholders including supporting Underwriting and Actuarial teams in connection with claim trends, marketing and business development.
· Provide superior customer service to policyholders and brokers. Active involvement in the maintenance and development of client relationships through contacts with clients and brokers in respect of day to day claims handling. Understanding and acting appropriately in respect of clients’ needs.
· Instructing and controlling surveyors, loss adjusters, solicitors and experts in connection with day to day claims handling ensuring cost and performance appropriate to the loss.
· Assist Claims Manager with implementing strategy within the Claims Team.
You will report to the Claims Manager – PI & Financial Lines, UK & Lloyds
SHARE your talent
We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
· Knowledge of Professional Indemnity/Financial Lines business claims.
· Provide support to Underwriters and be at ease discussing claims issues direct with our clients/brokers.
· Takes ownership and accountability for the management of assigned claims and successfully oversees the strategy to resolution.
· Delivering prompt, fair, innovative and accurate claims service enhancing broker and client relationships
· Familiarity with both Lloyd’s and Company Market systems/protocols and use of the ECF market system for claims handling.
· Understanding of legal liability (including common law and statute) and the legal processes (including litigation, ADR etc)
· Ability to operate to tight deadlines in a pressured environment
· Works to establish relationships and collaborate effectively across the business, and leverages those relationships in the achievement of goals and objectives
· Presentation and excellent communication skills.
· Provides claim handling support to team members
FIND your future
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.
How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
Learn more at axaxl.com
Inclusion & Diversity
AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family friendly leave benefits
- Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
- Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Sustainability
At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.
Our Pillars:
- Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
- Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
- Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
- AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.
For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability
