Catastrophe Claims Representative I

1 month ago

Edmonton, Canada Wawanesa Insurance Full time

**Date**:Jan 23, 2024

**Location**: Edmonton, AB, CA, T6E-6A8 Calgary, AB, CA, T2R-0E4 Winnipeg, MB, CA, R3C-3P1

**Company**:Wawanesa Insurance

**Job ID**:7490

**Working Business Language**: English

**Salary**:At Wawanesa, salary is one component of a holistic, comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. The salary offered is determined with consideration to various factors, including but not limited to: your work location, local labour market conditions, external market salary data, internal pay equity and the knowledge, skills, experience and anticipated proficiency in the role.

$17.91/hour - $29.55/hour

**This role requires you to be physically on-site in a Wawanesa office in Edmonton, Calgary, or Winnipeg.**

We are currently looking for** **dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic** **individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.

**Job Overview**:
**This is a student term position with a start date of May 6, 2024 and end date of August 30, 2024.**

Job Responsibilities
- Provide direction and support to our policy holders through the life of the claim, by providing exceptional customer service delivered with empathy
- Interpret policy wordings, determine policy coverage
- Establishing timely and accurate loss and expense reserves
- Conducting a comprehensive investigation on all files to determine coverages and liability, while adhering to Wawanesa’s adjusting guidelines, and recognizing when to refer claims to appropriate internal teams/stakeholders
- Adhering to policies, procedures and Standard of Work documentation
- Coordinating and managing services with vendors and service providers. Evaluating and reconciling relevant information from sources such as appraisers, third party adjusters, contractors and repair facilities in order to quantify losses
- Communicating with policy holders in a timely and proactive manner, by means of voice to voice, written and digital correspondence, ensuring that all inquiries are effectively dealt with in a timely and professional manner
- Negotiating and conveying claim settlements within authority limits. Communicating claim decisions promptly and effectively, while delivering an exceptional customer experience
- Demonstrating the skills to review repair estimates, while developing the skills to create narrative scopes and generating entry level estimates using an estimating software system
- Working in partnership with other claims staff in both an individual and team-oriented capacity
- Maintaining detailed and accurate records based on company standards and policies within the claims system
- Maintaining an effective and current diary system and document claim file activities in accordance with established procedures
- Demonstrating strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and manage conflicting priorities in an effective manner
- Managing a high volume of new claims and inventory in a fast-paced environment
- Developing, demonstrating and maintaining knowledge and understanding of policy coverages, while complying with regional regulatory and licensing requirements (as applicable). Remaining current with legislative changes and trends in the insurance industry
- May be required to support non-Catastrophe related claims
- Perform other duties as assigned

**Qualifications**:

- Must be enrolled in and returning to a full-time post-secondary program.
- Exceptional customer service skills demonstrating empathy and concern for our customers
- Strong teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate with others
- Ability to work overtime hours as required and approved
- Willing to learn to interpret and quantify property damage estimates
- Ability to potentially travel across Canada on short notice if needed
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Excellent investigative and analytical skills
- Highly proficient in time management and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize work in a fast paced, high pressure work environment
- Detail oriented with a critical degree of accuracy regarding data entry
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Ability to manage a high claim inventory and high new claim intake, which may include the need to work extra time on weeknights and weekends. Availability during peak catastrophe season is required.
- Strong interpersonal skills allowing you to effectively deal with conflict and difficult situations
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills. Ability to draw valid conclusions and effectively communicate them.
- Self driven with a strong commitment to ongoing education, development and learning

**Wawanesa is proud to be one of **Manitoba's Top Employers** for 2023 recognizing that we are an exceptional place to work**

Wawanesa provides its employees with a **respectful**, **challenging **and **rewarding **environment where they can maximi

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