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Employment Specialists Ltd

Contact Malcolm Newson
Telephone 01473 344950
Email malcolm.newson@employmentspecialists.co.uk
Website http://www.employmentspecialists.co.uk
Address 3A Princes Street , Ipswich , Ipswich , IP1 1PN
Description
Employment Specialists Ltd are experts in Insurance and Financial Services recruitment. Specialising in Insurance and Financial Services recruitment with experienced Recruitment Consultants who have all worked for many years in those industries.

Job Title Senior Assistant Accountant
Salary/rate £25000 - £30000/annum
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101347036
Posted 23/05/2012 (16:03)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV A new opportunity has arisen for a Senior Assistant Accountant to join a well known and growing business in Ipswich.

You will assist in the accounting team’s delivery of accurate and timely information to the Group Finance teams and other key Stakeholders.

Initially this is a Contract position for 9 months.

Main responsibilities include:
• Monthly reconciliation of related balance sheet accounts ensuring reconciling items are investigated and cleared in a timely manner
• Reporting on all related balances and findings, investigating trends and variances as appropriate
• Maintaining the core accounting ledgers for the Group Finance function and ensuring the provision of timely and accurate information to the UK Reporting Teams
• Liaise with senior management to provide accurate weekly and monthly reporting

This is an opportunity that would suit an experienced accounting professional, who ideally had some progress towards their professional qualification, but the role will provide sufficient challenges for candidates with relevant experience or are fully qualified.

This is a very professional environment and you would be dealing with significant transactions in a busy and supportive team.

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Job Title Financial Services Administrator
Salary/rate £17000 - £25000/annum
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101346555
Posted 18/05/2012 (18:29)
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DescriptionRegister your CV Our client, a well known Insurance Broker with an expanding Financial Services Company, is currently looking for an individual to join their Financial Administration team specialising in Life & Pensions.

The business has an excellent reputation for providing quality service to clients and has excellent relationships with insurers, product providers and professional practices.
The successful candidate will be expected to both provide knowledge and guidance in relation to Group Pension scheme and to ensure the smooth running of the schemes.
Other responsibilities include:
• To competently provide administrative support and servicing with FSA rules and the firms procedures.
• Ensure clients are treated fairly and promptly.

As a suitable candidate you will:
• Have a minimum of two years experience in Financial Services.
• Be Cert PFS qualified or be working towards this qualification.
• Have the ability to work well with colleagues.
• Have the ability to work to deadlines.

In return our client is looking to offer a competitive basic salary as well as a benefit and bonus package and the opportunity for career progression within this expanding company.

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Job Title Graduate Trainee Accounts Technician
Salary/rate £15000 - £18000/annum
Location Norwich, Norfolk
Job Number 101346381
Posted 18/05/2012 (10:59)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV A major local Employer, is growing and recruiting additional accounting professionals.

You will be able to use your accounting experience in a highly professional environment along with your ability to resolve often complex issues and to communicate those expertly with Clients.

Working within a team with your own portfolio of accounts, your responsibilities will include:

Monthly reconciliations of your accounts
Resolving any discrepancies and differences
Raising and resolving queries with business departments
Raising payments to companies to meet payment dates
Liaising with colleagues within other departments to ensure targets are achieved
Checking the work completed by other team members is at a high standard to send to external sources

To be successful in this role, candidates will need to demonstrate:
- a positive attitude and drive to resolve issues
- good customer skills
- an aptitude for problem solving

There are many opportunities for talented individual to deal with challenging tasks as well as being involved in a range of interesting projects.


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Job Title Development Underwriter
Salary/rate £40000 - £45000/annum
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101342767
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:24)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV A major Insurance employer is looking to recruit an additional senior Development Underwriter to support the development of continued profitable growth through the acquisition of new Commercial business.

This new role will play an integral part in the future growth of the organisation as well as being pivotal between the sales and underwriting teams.

Main responsibilities include:
• Identification and acquisition of new commercial business
• Maintain and develop positive working relationships with the sales teams to win and retain profitable business
• Provide technical support and assistance to the Sales and Underwriting Teams.
• Proactively manage the acquisition and retention of Large Accounts
• Support the development and operation of appropriate sales campaigns
• Deal with the most complex cases and key clients to ensure service levels are met
• Identify the required Technical training in respect of risk appetite and underwriting strategy

To be successful in this role you will need:
• Extensive Commercial Underwriting knowledge.
• Proven ability in developing key working relationships
• Good negotiation and decision making skills.
• Good communication skills, ability to coach and develop others.

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Job Title Insurance Technician
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101342195
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:23)
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DescriptionRegister your CV To handle a rapidly expanding client base our Client has vacancies for Marine Technicians to support their existing teams in Ipswich.

This is an opportunity to be involved in all stages of the insurance process from business production to the placing of a firm order.

Responsibilities will include:

Preparation of broking documentation, including renewal slips, endorsements, vessel schedules, statistics, marketing presentations
Day to day responsibility for the handling of retail and wholesale portfolio in conjunction with the Service team and Account Executives.
Broking into the London and International Markets
The successful applicant will be responsible for a portfolio of existing accounts within the Marine Department which will expose them to a wide spectrum of issues across all aspects of marine insurance.

The successful candidate will:

Have experience in the Marine insurance industry, ideally on the placement side but Claims experience is also advantageous
Be able to work accurately within tight timescales
Demonstrate good organisational skills to manage workload
Be confident communicators

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Job Title Insurance Advisor
Salary/rate £17000 - £20000/annum
Location Norwich, Norfolk
Job Number 101342188
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:23)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV Our Client, a major Broker, with a strong presence in Norwich, is looking for a new member of staff to join their personal lines insurance team.

You will be responsible for handling classes of business including home, motor and travel and issuing quotes, new business policies, midterm adjustments, renewals and cancellation/lapses.

You will need to adhere to strict FSA, DPA and MID regulations and liaise with your Customer over the telephone, through written communication and occasionally face to face.

The role will be to exceed client expectations in the delivery of your service, in an enthusiastic manner, to ensure the client is delighted not only with what you have done, but the way in which you have done it.

This role would suit a dynamic individual with either a personal lines broking background or experience within insurance customer services from of an insurer


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Job Title Insurance Technicians
Salary/rate £15000 - £19000/annum
Location Norwich, Norfolk
Job Number 101292992
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:23)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV Our Client, a major name in the Insurance industry, is looking to recruit additional Insurance Technicians to join them in their growing teams.

Your main responsibilities will include:
To provide a professional broking and placement service.

Produce and deliver accurate and timely information and documentation in line with the requirements of your clients.
Build, maintain and demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of your Clients business.
The demands of these roles require a proactive, determined individual able to handle variable workloads.
You will deal with clients on a regular basis and as such need to be have excellent communication skills.
You will have a good Insurance background and the ability to work with a wide range of significant Corporate Clients.

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Job Title Claims Auditor
Location Norwich, Norfolk
Job Number 101338058
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:23)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV A major Insurance organisation is looking for a Senior Claims Advisor to work within Quality Assurance and Audit, working directly with a Senior Claims Manager.
As Senior Claims Advisor you will be responsible for overseeing and ensuring delivery of a high quality, compliant Claims service and you will be involved in Audit, Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement, Training Needs Analysis, Compliance and Risk Assessment.

Main Responsibilities:
• Manage and oversee the scheduled Audit programme and ad-hoc audits
• Monitor Auditor output quality and ensure cross audits carried out
• Make recommendations for Audit scheduling and subject matter
• Create and implement continuous improvement ethos and programme
• Oversee and support Compliance and Training programme

Successful applicants will demonstrate the following:
• Audit experience
• Claims handling experience
• Coaching skills and ability to train colleagues
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently
• Analytical and problem solving skills

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Job Title Account Handler
Salary/rate £20000 - £24000/annum
Location Colchester, Essex
Job Number 101325886
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:23)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV A prestigious Broker has an opportunity for an Account Handler to work closely with some of its key Clients.

To handle the requirements of these Clients you will need to have Insurance knowledge of property, liability, motor and personal accident.

As a Commercial Account Handler your key responsibilities will be:
* Providing day to day service to your Clients
* Supporting your Account Executives through the renewal process
* Preparing Broking documentation including insurance market presentations
* Negotiating renewal terms on specific classes of business
* Handling queries from clients, brokers, account executives and others

What people are we looking for?
* Ideally with experience of working with commercial risks
* You'll need to be able work to tight deadlines
* Good communication skills to gain the confidence of your Clients and to resolve queries

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Job Title Personal Lines Underwriter
Salary/rate £28000 - £35000/annum
Location Colchester, Essex
Job Number 101286374
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:22)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV As Personal Lines Development Underwriter you will be responsible for developing and growing new business opportunities within the region. The focus will be on developing home and motor business but will involve underwriting and developing all private client lines of business.

The role will involve extensive broker development and the successful candidate will be also identify cross sell opportunities to build the business.

Key responsibilities
• To underwrite consistently and profitability
• To develop close, effective relationships with brokers
• To effectively negotiate with both internal and external parties including identified points of contact with a brokerage
• To maintain and develop internal and external customer relations
• To regularly visit broker partners and write their business
• To identify non performing broker accounts in terms of overall profitability, retention and new business ratios and take remedial steps to improve this business

Key requirements
• Relevant underwriting experience
• Drive, self motivation and determination to achieve results
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
• Outgoing and confident

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Job Title Commercial Account Executive
Salary/rate £35000 - £40000/annum
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101327086
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:22)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV A well known Regional Broker is seeking another experienced Account Executive to join their successful team.

You will work with existing Clients responding to their insurance and risk management needs and importantly, successfully handling them through annual renewals. Currently they enjoy an exceptional level of client loyalty but are keen to ensure that this continues.

While you will use your excellent communication and relationship building skills to retain and develop existing clients you will also look to win new clients by referrals. Our Client's name and reputation will open doors for you and their marketing support will ensure you only spend effective time in front of prospects.

Some of the key accountabilities for this role will be:
* Managing client renewal process to ensure successful client outcomes.
* Understanding clients' business and advising on key risk and insurance issues.
* Retention and growth of a portfolio of existing clients.
* Cross selling risk management and other added value services to clients.
* Development of new clients with the support of a strong Marketing department.

To be considered for this role you will have experience working within Insurance as well as first class client relationship management skills. Also the role will require you to possess exceptional communication skills and strong attention to detail.

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Job Title Senior Account Handler
Salary/rate £28000 - £35000/annum
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101316937
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:22)
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DescriptionRegister your CV Working for a prominent Broker, focusing on Professional Indemnity and financial risks, this is a high profile role working with key Clients.
As Account Handler you will manage your own portfolio of client’s insurance programmes, which includes all aspects of their requirements including:
- Handling new business enquiries
- Renewals
- Broking
- Mid term adjustments
- and ongoing client service

To be able to meet the requirements of your clients you should have experience working as an Account Handler, ideally with Professional Indemnity risks, otherwise having a good general Commercial Insurance understanding.

You will be a confident communicator, able to advise your clients effectively and to negotiate premiums and coverage with Insurers.

Above all have a focus on delivering exceptional service to your clients, to high standards and within key deadlines.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful team within a growing organisation, with first class career opportunities.

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Job Title Commercial Team Manager
Salary/rate £35000 - £40000/annum
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101312949
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:22)
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DescriptionRegister your CV Due to internal promotion this Team Leader vacancy is ideally suited for a candidate with proven background in leading a team within an insurance environment.
The main purpose of this role is to manage your people and their workloads while encouraging and supporting their career and professional development.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead the team to achieve all KPI's in line with the business plan and delivery of first class service
• Implement strategies and processes designed for the achievement of excellent customer service to ensure that service level targets are achieved
• Develop a culture of continual improvement to provide a rewarding environment in which people develop and empowered to contribute to achieving KPI and business goals
• Liaise with other departments and external clients to ensure customer satisfaction and improvement of processes and procedures
• Manage escalated client issues that are likely to be complex and sensitive
You will be a natural communicator, able to lead people to achieve high personal standards and stretching team objectives. You will be a positive role model and able to coach and develop your team, both personally and professionally.
This is an excellent opportunity to progress your career, if you have experience of successfully leading a team in a professional environment, or if you have the necessary personal skills to be able to demonstrate your aptitude to lead and develop people.


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Job Title Commercial Underwriter
Salary/rate £27000 - £35000/annum
Location Colchester, Essex
Job Number 101298042
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:21)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV A major player in the Insurance market is continuing to grow and has a new opportunity for a Commercial Underwiter.

As Commercial Underwriter you would be dealing with underwriting referrals from brokers and actively identify opportunities to cross-sell and build the business.

Key responsibilities
• To underwrite consistently and profitability
• To develop close, effective relationships with brokers
• To effectively negotiate with both internal and external parties including identified points of contact within your brokers
• To identify and challenge non-standard underwriting decisions
• To identify non performing broker accounts and ensure appropriate action is taken.

Person specification
• Experience in Commercial risks
• Drive, self motivation and determination to achieve results
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal and influencing skills

• Able to make decisions with supervision in difficult and complex situations.

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Job Title Claims Handler
Salary/rate £15000 - £16000/annum
Location Norwich, Norfolk
Job Number 101296428
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:21)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV A major Insurance organisation is continuing to expand and have created new opportunities for Claims Handlers.

These roles are ideally suited to confident individuals with excellent communication and customer service skills, who are looking to build a career within insurance and claims.

Candidates will come from the following backgrounds:
- previous claims experience, regardless of class
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- be a financial services/insurance based candidate with an interest in claims
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- be a graduate with an interest in insurance and claims

They have exciting opportunities for candidates to join them and be trained in a wide range of technical claims handling disciplines. You will receive full support and training from the business who offer superb benefits, location and career structure.

Being experienced in technical claims will greatly improve your salary and future career prospects so this really is an excellent opportunity to progress your career.


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Job Title Commercial Account Handler
Salary/rate £23000 - £27000/annum
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101292995
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:21)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV Our Client, is looking for a Commercial Account Handler to join their expanding team.

You will be fully trained in how to deal with Clients insurance needs over the telephone and through written communication on classes of business including Property, EL/PL and Business Interruption.

All suitable candidates will have experience within a broking environment, preferably having dealt with Commercial classes of business.

The most important thing is for you to be enthusiastic, a quick learner and keen and eager to progress your career.

Acting as first point of contact for all of their queries, you will process quotes, new business policies, midterm adjustments, renewals and cancellation/lapses, adhering to strict FSA, DPA and Company regulations at all times.

You will be clear and confident in your communication and able to build relationships and rapport quickly.
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Job Title Claims Handler
Salary/rate £15000 - £20000/annum
Location Norwich, Norfolk
Job Number 101263973
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:21)
Agency/Employer Employment Specialists Ltd
DescriptionRegister your CV Our Client, with a reputation for quality and first class service, is looking to recruit additional Claims Handlers into their dedicated teams.
The Claims Handlers responsibilities will be to deliver a high quality claims service to clients and Insurers whilst maintaining and enhancing our Client’s reputation for its claims handling service.
The role will include direct communication with all parties involved, managing the relationship with policyholder, assessing the size of the claim, its potential severity and dealing with same in a proactive manner. The emphasis is on providing a prompt, yet extremely customer focused, claims handling service.

Key responsibilities
• To handle claims in a proactive manner within set service levels.
• To negotiate and settle claims fairly and promptly.
• To work unsupervised and show initiative in their claims handling approach.
• To building relationships and gain client and underwriter confidence when handling claims.

Key requirements
• A minimum of twelve months experience in handling claims.
• Drive, determination, confidence, initiative and dedication, as well as having good listening skills, communication and analytical skills.
• Applicants must be able to handle claims in a proactive yet highly customer focused manner.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both face to face and by telephone.


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Job Title Commercial Account Executive
Salary/rate £35000 - £45000/annum
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101244429
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:21)
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DescriptionRegister your CV Our Client has a strong emphasis on high quality standards and proactive marketing. You will benefit from them having strong relationships with insurers and already have a warm prospect base of 100`s of companies.

To be successful in this exciting role you will need to demonstrate:
• Experience of working in a new business environment and working to targets
• Excellent personal organisation and administration
• Commercial insurance experience/knowledge
• Superb communication, presentation and negotiating skills
• Effective working as a self-starter and cooperatively with team members.

To be successful in this role the successful candidate will need to learn about the needs of particular client types. Training and support to achieve this will be provided.

As well as a very good basic salary there is an excellent commission bonus structure to enable you to really earn significantly more.

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Job Title Commercial Account Handler
Salary/rate £21000 - £25000/annum
Location Norwich, Norfolk
Job Number 101289836
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:21)
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DescriptionRegister your CV A rapidly growing local Broker with a significant book of business is looking for another Account Handler to manage a portfolio of Clients.

Well known in their key sectors and across many Industries you would utilise your experience to provide a first class service to your Clients.

You will be managing a wide ranging portfolio of Corporate clients of all sizes and handling a variety of risks.

Your background and personality will enable you to confidently support your Clients across all their Insurance requirements to ensure their needs are met and their risks are adequately covered.

You will be able to ensure compliance for all documentation and advice as well as being proactive with the service you provide your Clients and the support for your Account Execs.

Above all you will communicate with your Clients in a clear and confident manner to provide first class service and ensure all their questions are answered satisfactorily.

Salary is entirely negotiable and will depend not only on your experience but on you as an individual - the right person for the team is just as important.

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Job Title Senior Finance Project Analyst
Salary/rate £60000 - £70000/annum
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Job Number 101336110
Posted 15/05/2012 (15:21)
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DescriptionRegister your CV A major Financial Service organisation is seeking a Senior Finance Project Analyst to provide financial and project analysis to ensure robust and reliable finance project, system and process development to their many planned changes.

Key Responsibilities:
• Provision of timely, incisive, consistent support to UK Finance on emerging & ad-hoc business issues, including Finance impact analysis of new projects, initiatives, opportunities, acquisitions etc
• Manage, support and deliver strategic projects in line with the business, departmental goals & objectives
• Undertake special initiatives and assist in the identification & implementation of operational improvements in the UK Finance function
• Prepare project documentation where necessary in order to meet project management methodology
• Assess resources and timescales of proposed projects in order to ensure projects are undertaken in an organised fashion and issues escalated to management where appropriate
• Support the development, documentation and maintenance of efficient, robust, reliable and consistent systems & processes that support UK Finance & enable the delivery of the result right first time, on time, with no surprises;
• Support the portfolio of UK Finance & related change projects, including monitoring & reporting project status
• Analyse & support UK Finance-specific projects & initiatives to ensure they are well planned & managed through to delivery by supporting their formation, scoping, management and delivery.
• Build and manage effective relationships with peers & stakeholders across the UK and the Finance, IT & Operations functions

To be successful in this challenging role candidates will need:
• Track record of identifying and analysing problems, identifying & evaluating options, deploying sound decision making skills.
• Experience of working within a project or change management environment
• Excellent communication skills, a confident and articulate presenter to internal/external audiences, exercising appropriate discretion in dealing with people from all levels
• Ability to build effective working relationships (internally/externally), establishing credibility amongst a wide and demanding client group (if applicable)
• Comfortable taking ownership for own work, identifying the need for action (using initiative) whilst working effectively within a team.
• Displays a resilient and adaptable style, track record of remaining calm in demanding circumstances, adjusting comfortably to changing conditions / priorities
• Progress towards a recognised accounting qualification

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