FirstRand Corporate Centre

Insurance Coordinator (Products, Bank Assets and Claims)

FirstRand Corporate Centre  •  Lusaka, ZM (Onsite)  •  2 days ago
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Job Description

To support product management across various segments and coordinate and manage insurance relating to bank-owned assets and interests, ensuring efficient placement of cover, adequate risk management and timely settlement of claims by brokers and insurers.

The role holder is also responsible for managing relationships with brokers and insurers and internal stakeholders involved in the bank’s insurance value chain.

  • ZAQA verified Certificates
  • Conduct adequate risk assessment and evaluation to ensure bank assets and interests are adequately covered.
  • Ensure SLAs with brokers, insurers and other service providers are in place and up to date
  • Put in place a performance management framework for brokers, insurers, assessors, and other service providers and ensure that they adhere to agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs), policy terms, and contractual obligations.
  • Act as the central coordination and escalation point between the bank, brokers, insurers, and internal stakeholders for all bank insurance processes.
  • Monitor claims turnaround times, service quality, and responsiveness, proactively following up on delays and service gaps.
  • Maintain oversight of claims status registers and management information to ensure accuracy, visibility, and accountability.
  • Escalate non-performance, delays, repudiations, and unresolved claims in line with bank guidelines.
  • Identify potential financial, operational, legal, or reputational risks to the Bank arising from claims trends, delays, repudiation, or insurer non-performance.
  • Prepare and submit timely risk reports to management highlighting material claims-related exposures and recommending mitigating actions.
  • Prepare and present regular claims performance, SLA compliance, and risk reports to management.
  • Liaise with branches, asset finance, facilities, security, finance, and risk teams to support effective claim oversight and resolution.
  • Coordinate with various stakeholders across the bank to ensure bank assets and interests are managed within an acceptable control environment
  • Provide guidance, training and awareness to internal stakeholders on claims escalation procedures, SLA expectations, and risk implications.
  • Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time including supporting bancassurance operations, bank projects and other initiatives
  • Support the end-to-end product development process from ideation to launch
  • Review product submission and ensure products, processes and its collaterals are in compliance with established standards on Product governance
  • Implement robust project management processes to ensure insurance partners are delivering on their commitments
  • Liaise with insurance providers on various issues impacting products performance and competitiveness
  • Prepare monthly product updates & challenges escalation to senior stakeholders
  • Work with insurers directly to agree on product features
  • Drive product deep dives in partnership with Insurance Consultants managing sales
  • Embedding innovation into product outcomes and conduct relevant product research
  • Support annual product planning to create product strategies and roadmaps with respective business segments. This includes influencing partners on product design to be more bancassurance friendly
  • Leverage industry networks, providing insights on competitive markets, products and distribution
  • Use the bank’s data models to prepare product analysis on product mix, profitability etc.

Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

26/08/26

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.

FirstRand Corporate Centre

About FirstRand Corporate Centre

The FirstRand Corporate Centre houses many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services group. The Corporate Centre’s stakeholders are external, such as regulators, shareholders, global developmental institutions and government; and also internal, mainly the market-leading businesses that service the group’s customers. These critical functions cover risk, compliance, governance, internal audit, treasury, finance and tax amongst many others. They require deep specialist and technical skills and ultimately represent the custodianship of the FirstRand group’s licence to operate.

Employees of the Corporate Centre develop a very unique perspective of the group because nowhere else can you own or be part of a mandate that operates across the portfolio. This allows for both big picture thinking and operational learning. It is also a great place to drive collaboration and a place to have a significant impact.

The Corporate Centre has adopted a blended approach to working, with a focus on balancing remote working and connections with colleagues in the workplace. Face-to-face interactions remain important to its way of working as these connections protect the business’s social capital, which is key to ensuring that FirstRand’s unique culture stays alive and continues to thrive.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Sandton, ZA
Year Founded
Unknown
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