Consultant: Legal Costs x3 at Road Accident Fund

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.