Legal Costs Consultant vacancies at Road Accident Fund

Legal Costs Consultant vacancies at Road Accident Fund

Deadline: 28 January 2025

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Legal Costs Consultant vacancies at Road Accident Fund

Road Accident Fund (RAF) is accepting applications for Legal Costs Consultant vacancies.

Purpose: 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.

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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.

How to apply

To apply, visit Road Accident Fund careers portal.

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

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