Financial Operations Assistant

Starr Insurance Companies is a leading insurance and investment organization, providing commercial property and casualty insurance, including travel and accident coverage, to almost every imaginable business and industry in virtually every part of the world.
Cornelius Vander Starr established his first insurance company in Shanghai, China in 1919. Today, we are one of the world’s fastest growing insurance organizations, capable of writing in 128 countries on 6 continents.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Create/validate signings in policy admin/finance systems per Allocation Instructions received in a timely manner.
• Perform data quality checks (parties, terms, taxes, coding) and obtain missing info.
• Execute standard QA checks and escalate deviations by working with the Local Financial team.
• Produce reports as required in coordination with the Financial Ops Team Lead.
• Understand and work on Eclipse. Understanding system capabilities and existing manuals related to system usage maintaining latest updates in course.
• Ensure taxes are correctly processed internally as instructed by local office
• Store, file and follow up for EU branches on allocations template.
• Participate, understand and assist in the implementation and improvement of the Financial Operations and Credit Control Processes and follow up processes and internal rules and controls as established.
• Coordinate with local offices to keep older debt and unallocated cash empty.
• Ensure while coordinating with the credit control team, that important and big close due debt accounts paid into the bank are managed as a priority for signing to avoid amounts impact and get the premiums dully paid as early payments. .
• Undertake other appropriate tasks as requested by the management team.

Skills and Experience Required

• 0–2 years in operations/admin (insurance, banking, or shared services).
• High attention to detail; comfortable following SOPs.
• English B2/C1.
• Working knowledge of Excel and collaboration tools (SharePoint, Teams).
• Additional European language skills (desirable).
• Credit control experience (desirable).
• Prior shared-service or hub experience (desirable).

Starr is an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We offer first class training and development opportunities to all employees. Our aim is to grow our own talent and bring out the best in people.