Senior Claims Advocate

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Job Summary

Job Description

Marsh is seeking a Senior Claims Advocate for their Sydney Financial Lines Advocacy Claims Team. This full-time, permanent role involves providing detailed coverage analysis and advice on complex financial lines claims, developing tailored claim strategies for high-risk matters, and proactively engaging with stakeholders. The role requires a legal degree with 5+ years PQE and proven expertise in managing large-scale financial lines insurance claims, focusing on maximising client coverage outcomes and mentoring junior staff.
Must have:
  • Provide detailed coverage analysis and advice on complex, high-profile financial lines claims, including issues of construction, claim characterisation, interpretation, and exclusions.
  • Conduct urgent reviews and develop tailored claim strategies for media-sensitive, litigated, or high-risk large loss matters requiring immediate action.
  • Engage proactively with brokers, clients, legal counsel, and insurers to coordinate claim responses, mitigate losses, and set clear expectations.
  • Maximise client coverage outcomes through comprehensive analysis of all relevant coverages, including dual insurance and external covers, providing strategic guidance.
  • Mentor internal claims staff on legal and coverage complexities, and assist in preparing detailed correspondence, submissions, and on-site inspections.
  • A legal degree with 5+ years PQE, preferably with experience in private practice.
  • Proven technical expertise in managing complex, large-scale financial lines insurance claims.
  • Ability to independently manage a range of high-value, complex claims while maintaining high-quality customer service.
  • Strong understanding of insurance policy construction, exclusions, and legal considerations in claims management.
Good to have:
  • Experience working within the financial lines claims space, with a deep understanding of case law, external covers, and multi-party claim coordination.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and manage high-profile, high-quantum claims with minimal supervision.
  • Additional industry certifications or specialist training in financial lines or insurance law are advantageous.
Perks:
  • Opportunity to work on complex, high-profile claims within a collaborative and dynamic environment.
  • Hybrid work flexibility, including remote work and in-office collaboration.
  • Professional development benefits.
  • Diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment.

Job Details

Join Our Specialist Financial Lines Advocacy Claims Team

We are looking for an experienced financial lines claims professional to join our team as a Senior Claims Advocate. This is a full-time, permanent role offering the opportunity to work on complex, high-profile claims within a collaborative and dynamic environment.

We will count on you to:

  • Provide detailed coverage analysis and advice on complex, high-profile financial lines claims, including issues of construction, claim characterisation, interpretation, and exclusions.
  • Conduct urgent reviews and develop tailored claim strategies for media-sensitive, litigated, or high-risk large loss matters requiring immediate action.
  • Engage proactively with brokers, clients, legal counsel, and insurers to coordinate claim responses, mitigate losses, and set clear expectations.
  • Maximise client coverage outcomes through comprehensive analysis of all relevant coverages, including dual insurance and external covers, providing strategic guidance.
  • Mentor internal claims staff on legal and coverage complexities, and assist in preparing detailed correspondence, submissions, and on-site inspections.

What you need to have:

  • A legal degree with 5+ years PQE, preferably with experience in private practice.
  • Proven technical expertise in managing complex, large-scale financial lines insurance claims.
  • Ability to independently manage a range of high-value, complex claims while maintaining high-quality customer service.
  • Strong understanding of insurance policy construction, exclusions, and legal considerations in claims management.

What makes you stand out:

  • Experience working within the financial lines claims space, with a deep understanding of case law, external covers, and multi-party claim coordination.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and manage high-profile, high-quantum claims with minimal supervision.
  • Additional industry certifications or specialist training in financial lines or insurance law are advantageous.

The company is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The company is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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About The Company

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is the world's leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. The Company's 76,000 colleagues advise clients in over 130 countries. With annualized revenue approaching $17 billion, Marsh & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses. Marsh advises individual and commercial clients of all sizes on insurance broking and innovative risk management solutions. Guy Carpenter develops advancedrisk,reinsurance and capital strategies that help clients grow profitably and pursue emerging opportunities. Mercer delivers advice and technology-driven solutions that help organizations meet the health, wealth and career needs of a changing workforce. Oliver Wyman serves as a critical strategic, economic and brand advisor to private sector and governmental clients.

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