Insurance Claims Handler

We are looking for an Insurance Claims Administrator in East Midlands/East Anglia, based in either Sheffield, Leicester, Peterborough, Marks Tey or Hitchin

Cadent is the UK’s largest Gas Distribution Company owning and operating four of the eight UK Gas Distribution Networks across the East of England, London, Northwest and West Midlands; spanning over 131,000 kilometres of pipes. Cadent transport gas safely and reliably to 11 million homes across their networks and operate the Gas Emergency Helpline for the whole of the UK. Costain is appointed as the Construction Management Organisation to manage the planning and delivery of the annual network investment programme for the East of England Network.

**Key Tasks & responsibilities**

***- Undertaking the efficient and effective management of insurance claims submitted by 3rd parties
- Liaising with 3rd party contractors to determine parties involved
- Obtaining details surrounding liability and updating insurance claim register
- Collating relevant documents pertaining to each claim
- Advising insurers and loss adjusters of liability or rejection of claim by 3rd party contractors
- Weekly reporting of status of insurance claims position

**About you**
- Minimum 5 GCSE’s including English and Mathematics
- Min 5 years working experience with prior experience in administering insurance claims
- Experience of using Microsoft suite of software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Demonstrable financial and commercial acumen
- Practical approach, logical thought process and a methodical way of working
- Experience of operating office management systems including filing systems and document control and distribution
- An ability to collate information, prepare reports, payment certificates and interim financial reports and closeout reports.

**About Costain**

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

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**Right to Work & Security Checks**

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

**Closing date**

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
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