Consultant: Legal Costs x11

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads.

Purpose of the Job: The Consultant: Legal costs is responsible to consult with legal and medical experts to gain further insights into a claim and its resulting costs.

Key Performance Areas

Legal cost management

• Keep up-to-date wih all incoming claims.
• Read and interpret claims.
• Review claims to ensure no fradulant or contradictory claims are made.
• Determine if a claim requires the services of an attorney.
• Determine the actual fees due to an attorney for each case.
• Ensure all payments to attorney’s are fair and reasonable.
• Consult different service providers to understand where the organisation could save on legal fees..

Quality assurance

• Ensure that invoicing processes are implemented and maintained at the highest standards.
• Maintain the implementation of an unusual occurrence procedures

Administrative support

• Deal with/and respond to correspondence.
• Produce documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations.
• Assist with typing and editing briefs, technical papers, letters to various parties, and memos.

Reporting

• Track and report against set objectives and targets.
• Report on emerging risks.
• Provide ad hoc reports on process improvement initiatives.

Stakeholder management

• Maintain healthy relationships with all stakeholders.
• Follow up and feedback to all stakeholders to keep them updated on the status of a query.
• Respond to queries within the predefined turnaround times.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma in a related qualification.

Experience

• Relevant 3 years’ experience in an insurance, legal or accounting related environment.

Competencies

• Behavioural
  • Planning, Organising and Coordinating
  • Personal Mastery
  • Judgement and Decision Making
  • Ethics and Values
  • Client Service Orientation                                                                                                                                       

• Technical
  • Knowledge of legal costs.
  • Understanding of post claim management and settlement.
  • Medical bill reviewing.
  • Medical case management.
  • Complex problem identification, solving and decision making.
  • Customer value proposition.
  • Good financial management skills.
  • Strong Analytical capabilities.
  • Knowledge of Motor Vehicle Accident legislation.
  • PFMA knowledge.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.