Manager, Financial Services Claims
Job Description:
- Lead and coordinate day-to-day claims operations, including workflow, inventory, staffing, escalations, and service delivery
- Own performance against contractual SLAs, quality standards, efficiency targets, cycle-time expectations, and other KPIs
- Use dashboards, operational reporting, and trend analysis to identify risk, remove barriers, and improve performance
- Allocate resources and adjust priorities to meet business needs while maintaining controls and service continuity
- Partner across Claims, Client Services, Quality, Training, Workforce Management, Compliance, Legal, SIU, Product, and Technology
- Lead, coach, and develop supervisors, team leads, and claims professionals in a geographically dispersed environment
- Set expectations, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and address performance concerns
- Build leadership capability and succession pipelines through coaching and development planning
- Create an inclusive, accountable, and collaborative culture focused on customers, results, continuous improvement, and engagement
- Facilitate communication and address conflict constructively
- Ensure claim handling complies with laws, regulations, licensing requirements, company policies, client requirements, and procedures
- Implement and monitor quality assurance and risk-control measures
- Remain current on regulatory and industry developments and translate changes into procedures, training, and controls
- Oversee complex or escalated claims and customer concerns
- Identify operational, financial, compliance, and customer risks and monitor mitigation plans
- Build relationships with internal and external client stakeholders
- Present operational updates, performance results, trends, risks, and action plans to leadership and clients
- Lead process improvement and change initiatives to reduce friction, strengthen controls, improve experiences, and increase efficiency
- Evaluate responsible use of automation, AI, and digital tools while maintaining human oversight, data protection, compliance, and claim quality
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree, or four additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
- 6+ years of claims experience with demonstrated proficiency in claim operations and decision-making
- 4+ years leading people, operational teams, and/or complex projects
- Proven experience managing claims operations, performance metrics, quality, compliance, and service delivery
- Active claims adjuster license is required
- Must maintain all licenses required for the role and obtain additional jurisdictional licenses within company-required timeframes
- Demonstrated ability to lead large or complex teams, develop leaders, and drive accountability and engagement
- Strong knowledge of claims regulations, compliance standards, risk controls, and industry practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to engage executive, client, and cross-functional audiences
- Analytical and business judgment with ability to turn data into clear decisions and action plans
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and travel up to 10% as business needs require
- Helpful: claims manager experience leading a large, multi-layered, or geographically dispersed operation
- Helpful: experience in financial services, card benefits, insurance, regulated customer operations, or a similarly complex environment
- Helpful: degree or advanced coursework in business, finance, insurance, law, or a related discipline
- Helpful: experience with client-facing operational leadership, contractual SLAs, executive reporting, and performance improvement
- Helpful: experience leading transformation, automation, AI-enabled workflows, or digital process improvement in a controlled environment
- Helpful: high business acumen and awareness of emerging claims, customer service, regulatory, and technology trends
Benefits:
- Salary growth within the position
- Virtual interviews conducted on video
- U.S. benefit information available through myassurantbenefits.com