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The Senior Accountant will be involved in all accounting and reporting functions as well as any financial projects. The incumbent will be integral to the Finance Department and will be responsible for the accurate processing and preparation of the monthly/quarterly financial data. This position will require satisfactory completion daily, weekly and monthly accounting tasks and activities, which include cash applications, accounts payable, account reconciliations, intercompany transactions and settlements, and maintaining the general ledger.
Other responsibilities include:
- Preparation of monthly/quarterly journal entries
- Apply cash collections and resolve outstanding AR balances
- Develop and implement efficiencies in account processes
- Work the CFO and Accounting Manager in month/quarter end processes including preparation of account reconciliations and other closing analyses and reports
- Assist in the completion of the Quarterly CFO package
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with parent company and affiliate personnel
- Assist in the Annual Planning Process
- Assist in quarterly Schedule F submissions
- Assist in the non-IT Sarbanes – Oxley Compliance
- Monitor the implementation and maintenance of accounting control procedures
- Participate in audit processes, including audits conducted by external public accountants, state regulatory examiners and parent company auditors
- Have an understanding of reinsurance contracts and accounting
- Keep CFO and Accounting Manager apprised of any issues that may impact timely and accurate financial reporting
- Review monthly T&E reports for accurate account coding and adequate support documentation
- Perform other duties as assigned
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Berkley Prime Transportation is looking for an insurance professional who enjoys underwriting to join our creative, collaborative and hard-working team. The successful candidate will be responsible for helping start up an organization poised to achieve and exceed profitability goals through proper risk selection and account management by utilizing data and analytics.
Principle Responsibilities
- Review new and renewal commercial insurance risks and determine accurate classification of business, policy contract forms and pricing of risk; review and act upon pertinent risk information such as loss control reports, motor vehicle reports (MVRs), loss runs and financial statements
- Responsible for book management of an assigned agency territory, including achieving predetermined premium goals and profitability objectives, conducting audits on agency business, effectively communicating the company underwriting philosophy and assuring compliance of underwriting best practices
- Cultivate effective agency relationships; conduct agency visits, communicate expectations and make recommendations for agency action(s) when appropriate
- Provide guidance to Assistant Underwriters in technical matters of underwriting including, but not limited to, such procedures as coverages, cancellations, exclusions, endorsements and non-renewal action
- Assist in developing new products, coverage enhancements, and procedures that drive production and processing efficiency
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Investigates medium level commercial casualty and general liability claims in a prompt, equitable manner by analyzing coverage, liability/compensability and damages; evaluating reserves; and negotiating settlement or conclusion of claim.
- Examines and analyzes policies, contracts and claim forms to determine coverage.
- Investigates loss in a prompt manner by phone or correspondence to determine the extent of the Company’s liability.
- Requests necessary reports, e.g., police reports, fire reports, medical records, property damage inspections, etc. Utilizes independent adjusting services to assist in the claim investigation as appropriate.
- Establishes accurate claim reserves and re-evaluates exposures and reserves during the life of the claim. Correctly enters claim data and file documentation into claim and related systems for reporting purposes.
- Negotiates settlement or conclusion of claim.
- Participates in educational, coaching and mentoring opportunities to enhance claims adjusting skills and knowledge
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Senior level risk control technical specialist or expert in respective area of specialty; responsible for high level risk assessment, evaluation and/or delivery of risk control technical consulting services and support on the most complex risk exposures; building strategies, best practices and tools to support field risk control operations and technical services group outcomes.
- Responsible for providing high level industry segment technical expertise, training and consulting to support field risk control operations in achieving risk reduction outcomes and core organizational objectives through verbal, written, and on-site joint risk assessment.
- Independently, as member of group, or leader of team, identifies priority technical projects, research initiatives and key sources of loss within industry market segment or area of specialty to develop specialized products, resources, training and reports to assist in the recognition and mitigation of key risk exposures.
- Responsible for driving technical excellence for area of specialty throughout the organization and in support of business partners for the purpose of raising technical knowledge and understanding of new technologies, equipment, and regulations impacting industry segment, negatively or positively, to more timely identify alternative business and risk reduction methods, strategies, and solutions.
- Develops and submits results based, outcome oriented recommendations, action plans, and risk reduction opportunities utilizing specialized skill set, knowledge, and expertise. Assists in the planning, development, and facilitation of risk control workshops, seminars and other training for internal and external business partners. Measures effectiveness of technical improvement initiatives specific to industry segment and presents performance results to management.
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This is a great entry-level position with opportunities for professional development. In this role, you will participate in our formal training program and be assigned a mentor to guide you through learning all lines of commercial insurance. You will work in our systems to quote and issue policies and process account changes, while providing a high level of customer service and maintaining workflow standards.
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This is a great entry-level position with opportunities for professional development. In this role, you will participate in our formal training program and be assigned a mentor to guide you through learning all lines of commercial insurance. You will work in our systems to quote and issue policies and process account changes, while providing a high level of customer service and maintaining workflow standards
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The Policy Services Representative is responsible for learning company policy and procedure in relation to policy administration, as well as other general policy information. The primary role of the Policy Services Representative is to provide a high level of customer service to company clients and agents regarding their worker’s compensation policies as well as providing general administrative and clerical support to other functional units such as premium audit, premium accounting, and underwriting. The Policy Services Representative must exhibit a degree of competency in their area of responsibility. Productivity, timeliness and accuracy are key, exercising appropriate judgment is critical.
Responsibilities include:
- Responds to client/agent inquiries regarding a variety of premium policy and related issues.
- Achieves a working knowledge of company policies and procedures in relation to policy administration.
- Provides clerical and administrative support for other departments.
- Completes projects as assigned.
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In this position the Underwriting Assistant will support the Berkley Design Professional Underwriting Team with various tasks relating to underwriting support as well as serve key back-up for other Operations roles.
Overall responsibilities will include the following:
- Handle Submission clearance and set-up
- Review unidentified mail; attach to BDP Phoenix file or refer to other WRBC underwriting unit
- Monitor BDP queues to ensure info is being up uploaded correctly
- Update Insured contact information in Phoenix (policy administration system)
- Handle electronic filing of various documents into Phoenix
- Provide primary back-up for Submission clearance for BSP Technical Assistant
- Provide primary back-up of First Notice of Loss entry for Claim Assistant
- Provide primary back-up of invoice processing for Claim Assistant
- Provide primary back of agency set-ups/updates
- Create operations related Cube reports
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Become a member of Acadia's Twin States’ branch and have a direct impact on new market expansion and customer service for our current clients throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. In the Senior Loss Control Representative role, you'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute and the excitement of building relationships with agents and insureds. You will provide detailed risk assessments for prospective commercial accounts and loss control service delivery to existing policyholders.
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Carolina Casualty is looking for a talented and experienced specialty auto insurance professional who will be responsible for overseeing the Specialty Auto operations. This person will be working closely with the Senior leadership and Underwriting team on designing, developing, and launching the new program.
Principle Responsibilities
- Manage risk approvals within authority while achieving the underwriting budget and service goals of the unit
- Supervise the underwriting profitability of the unit; underwriting and pricing of business and the identification of classes of business to be developed
- Interface with other functional support units in the company such as Claims, IT, and Finance to facilitate meeting the unit objectives
- Participate in the producer management process of the company, including business development for the assigned unit; interface with Sales/Marketing on producer activities and participate in producer visits
- Assist in the performance of underwriting audits as well as perform internal Underwriting audits
- Develop policies, procedures and best practices to be implemented within the department
- Identify and develop training activities for new & existing employees
- Maintain a high level of knowledge of current industry trends, issues & regulatory requirements
- Communicate on a timely basis with fellow underwriting professionals regarding issues of competition, acquisitions/mergers, legal decisions and other pertinent information relative to the insurance underwriting and/or claims area
- Develop premium goals and loss ratio targets for both Underwriters and agents
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Carolina Casualty is seeking an enthusiastic individual who wants to learn commercial transportation underwriting, producer management, and how to build effective relationships.
Principle Responsibilities
- Complete the Underwriting Training Program
- Evaluate new and existing risks through review and analysis of loss experience, financials, MVRs, IFTA reports, violation history, and loss control reports
- Make recommendations for acceptance, rejection, modification or referral of risks in accordance with established underwriting standards, policies and programs
- Develop superior working relationships with producers and acts as first point of contact; .frequently assist producers with questions on products and coverage; research and resolve complex errors and questions regarding processes and procedures
- Use Oden and other resources including our compliance department to ensure compliance with applicable regulation
- Obtain/quote/bind facultative reinsurance when warranted
- Review policies for errors and proper forms
- Take initiative for learning and understanding insurance coverages
- Take initiative to acquire additional insurance knowledge by enrolling in industry related courses and programs
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The Claims Superintendent will be responsible for determining and discharging the company's contractual obligations under its various policy contracts involving coverage analysis, investigation, legal defense, and loss and expense reserving primarily as they apply to construction defect claims.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Incorporate all claims into company records and review for applicability of coverage.
• Present facts of claims, with recommendations, to committee as necessary.
• Establish initial loss and expense reserves. Maintain valid loss and expense reserves based on current investigation and legal discovery.
• Supervise activities of Independent Adjusters, investigators and defense attorneys to ensure that all claims are appropriately handled. Attend and participate in mediations/trials as necessary.
• Adhere to company procedures and guidelines as well as case law and statutory requirements when coverage is in question, and/or when paying or denying claims.
• Comply with reporting requirements of treaty and facultative reinsurers.
• Maintain current understanding of various unfair claim practices statutes.
• Prepare large loss reports where applicable.
• Review incoming billing statements for accuracy and process for payment.
• Participate in marketing calls/visits as needed
• Attend industry related seminar workshops and/or courses for continuing education
• Additional tasks as assigned.
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The Claims Superintendent will be responsible for determining and discharging the company's contractual obligations under its various policy contracts involving coverage analysis, investigation, legal defense, and loss and expense reserving primarily as they apply to construction defect claims.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Incorporate all claims into company records and review for applicability of coverage.
• Present facts of claims, with recommendations, to committee as necessary.
• Establish initial loss and expense reserves. Maintain valid loss and expense reserves based on current investigation and legal discovery.
• Supervise activities of Independent Adjusters, investigators and defense attorneys to ensure that all claims are appropriately handled. Attend and participate in mediations/trials as necessary.
• Adhere to company procedures and guidelines as well as case law and statutory requirements when coverage is in question, and/or when paying or denying claims.
• Comply with reporting requirements of treaty and facultative reinsurers.
• Maintain current understanding of various unfair claim practices statutes.
• Prepare large loss reports where applicable.
• Review incoming billing statements for accuracy and process for payment.
• Participate in marketing calls/visits as needed
• Attend industry related seminar workshops and/or courses for continuing education
• Additional tasks as assigned.
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Berkley One, a Berkley company, is hiring a Software Quality Analyst. The preferred location for this position is in our Morristown, NJ office but we will also consider candidates for our New York City or Wilmington, DE offices. The ideal candidate will have experience with defining, creating and executing testing scenarios.
Berkley One exists to insure and protect the lifestyles of a modern generation of affluence. We seek clients that are sophisticated individuals and families who require world-class risk and claims management customized to their needs, a team of select expert independent agents and innovative digital tools to keep it simple and easy. We’ll blend our partners, products and capabilities with all that is Berkley, generating a modern solution for the customers we serve.
About the job
Our culture is one of innovation, creativity and teamwork. Our team is highly motivated, passionate about our business, and deeply experienced in developing and delivering product and service solutions in the personal insurance marketplace.
This role will be responsible to review functional requirements, write test scripts and scenarios to verify stated and implied requirements, and execute test scripts and scenarios and defect tracking and resolution.
What you will do
- Conduct end-to-end testing through multiple applications, creating/updating/retesting/closing bug tickets and regularly updating test progress
- Develop, maintain and execute automated and manual test scripts for requirement validation, integration and regression
- Understand business context, analyze business requirements, functional specifications and detail design documents
- Verify test execution results
- Document defects using Jira with detailed descriptions and supporting information
- Test manually and run automation scenarios
- Report progress to test manager and project team
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- Learn how our business works at all levels of the organization and customer base (internal, policyholders, agents, etc.)
- Participate in planning the user experience for all aspects of our online presence
- Take a leading role in developing our customer portal and future offerings
- Develop and implement projects (research, sketch, code, test, roll out), involving stakeholders across the organization
- Stay on top of trends and new technology - Identify future tools and strategy, and create the business case for adoption and implementation
- Work closely with the IT and Marketing teams to manage timelines, resources and communication strategy
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The Administrative Services Clerk performs a variety of office support functions and may specialize in one area of office services.
- Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail
- Identify and distribute specialty mail on a priority basis daily
- Print and sort checks, prepare for mailing
- Data entry
- Monitor and handle incoming faxes
- Prepare and scan claim documents
- Prepare and enter claim reports
- Provide backup coverage & assistance within the department
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The Senior Decision Scientist supports business partners in making informed, data-driven decisions and promotes the advancement of CWG’s analytical culture and capabilities.
- Identifies and prioritizes opportunities for improving business partner decisions. Uncovers new opportunities by leveraging analytic practices to design, build new, creative, high impact analytic solutions.
- Serves as a liaison for their business partner(s) with other teams/departments (CWG IT, BTS, consultants, regions, Actuarial, Finance, Data Science, etc.) to develop and enhance solutions that improve decision-making processes.
- Produces analysis and communicates insights that are actionable by business partners. Researches, designs, implements and validates solutions to achieve targeted outcomes.
- Partners with IT to access, explore and condition data. Develops and deploys solutions using data analysis, data mining, optimization tools, machine learning techniques and statistics.
- Produces data visualization such as charts, infographic and dashboards to communicate findings and actionable recommendations to internal stakeholders clearly and effectively.
- Promotes the advancement of advanced analytics capabilities, including business intelligence and predictive/prescriptive modeling.
- Serves as a catalyst in the evolution of CWG and the regional segment’s business intelligence capabilities and champion of self-serve analytics capabilities.
- Stewards for internal and external data sources, supporting data governance and the continuous improvement of data availability and data quality.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by
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Berkley North Pacific has an opportunity for a Senior Claims Representative in our Bellevue office. This role will investigate moderate to highly complex commercial property and casualty claims in a prompt, equitable manner by analyzing coverage, liability and damages; evaluating reserves; and negotiating settlement or conclusion of claim.
Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Examines and analyzes policies, contracts and claim forms to determine coverage.
- Investigates loss in a prompt manner by telephone, correspondence or on-site investigation to determine the extent of the Company’s liability. Negotiates settlement or conclusion of claim.
- Manages litigated claims.
- Requests necessary reports, e.g., police reports, fire reports, medical records, property damage inspections, etc.
- Utilizes independent adjusting services to assist in the claim investigation as appropriate.
- Establishes accurate claim reserves and re-evaluates exposures and reserves during the life of the claim.
- Correctly enters claim data into claim and related systems for reporting purposes.
- Collaborates with claims department staff on claim files in subrogation, arbitration and salvage recovery.
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Position Summary
This position will be providing overall requirements gathering, design, development and support of one or more company applications for the various subsidiaries of the corporation.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Demonstrates a robust understanding of all functional and technical aspects of a system.
- Can produce significant new system functionality or defect resolution with minimal direction.
- Creates design specifications that demonstrate an understanding of most interfacing systems and supported business processes. (can understanding business processes go to the developer/analyst)
- Routinely proposes improvements to a system to improve supportability or usability.
- Can perform adequate peer review on any changes in the system.
- Can be consulted to provide recommendations to solve business issues based on experience and knowledge of current technology.
- Demonstrates solid development processes including code review, documentation, and unit testing.
- May provide rotating on-call support of production systems.
- Ensure high-performing and scalable solutions by proactively monitoring and assessing various performance metrics both pre and post-implementation.
- Provide end user mentoring and training in 1-1 and small group settings.
- Partner with the various subsidiaries to create a vision for future advancement of our applications.
- Travel for this position is approximately 5-10%.
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The Senior Computer Operator will be responsible for analyzing console instructions, error messages, stops, scheduler programs to determine proper operating procedures. Creates, monitors, and maintains Operations documentation, material and supply inventory. Review production output to ensure quality using HP-UX, AIX and Windows operating systems.
Primary Duties:
- Perform techniques for scheduling work flow and determining work priorities. Ensure production job schedule is adhered to in order to maintain performance. Guides and checks the work activities of computer operators.
- Perform Unix shell scripting.
- Interfaces with customers to ensure that servers are functioning and gather information about more complex server requirements. Interfaces with vendors as appropriate to expedite problem resolution.
- Analyzes and evaluates incident reports and makes recommendations to reduce incident rate. Utilizes standard problem management skills to record discrepancies in the environment.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with team members and co-workers at geographically diverse locations. Must be courteous and respectful with all customers and vendors.
- Must be able to create thorough, written documentation of procedures and all actions taken to resolve issues in trouble ticketing system.
- Ability to work nights, weekends, and overtime as needed. Ability to be available during the heaviest processing days of each month to ensure system availability to users.
- Monitoring of backup and restore processes, as well as tape rotation procedures with off-site storage.
- Application, system and network monitoring through use of enterprise monitoring tools and routine manual checkpoints.
- Proficiency with Enterprise Job Scheduler
- Familiarity with IT Systems & demonstrates a robust understanding of all the business processes and system interfaces of a system.
- Responsible for ensuring staff members are following established departmental policies. Provides guidance, trains and delegates tasks and projects to Operations staff members.