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Full-time
2-5

Claims Consultant - REST

11/27/2025

As a Claims Consultant, you will manage life insurance claims from start to finish, ensuring a seamless experience for customers. This includes providing regular communication regarding claim statuses and managing expectations to achieve quality health and claim outcomes.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

1,001-5,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
TAL is Australia's leading life insurance specialist*. For over 150 years, TAL has been protecting people, not things. Together with its partners, TAL insures more than 5 million^ customers and offers life insurance through the following channels: direct to consumer; through a financial adviser; and via group and workplace superannuation schemes. TAL is part of the Daiichi Life Group, one of the world’s largest insurance groups. House rules Please find our social community guidelines here: https://www.tal.com.au/disclaimer * Results determined by NMG based on TAL market share of inforce premiums as at 31 March 2024. ^ Based on insured customer policies and insured members of superannuation funds across Group, Retail and Direct
About the Role

Company Description

  • Competitive Salary + Bonus + Annual Reviews
  • Flexible Work Hours | Hybrid Model
  • Secure a permanent, full-time role with stability and growth opportunities 
  • Build your skills with full training in life insurance 
  • Work in a friendly, supportive team environment 

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

Job Description

As a Claims Consultant within our Group space for our REST fund, you will manage life insurance claims from start to finish, providing a seamless experience for our customers.

In this role you will: 

  • A key focus of this role involves providing a best-in-class customer and client (e.g. advisers, trustees, fund administrators) experience, including regular communication in relation to the status of claims and managing expectations, to deliver on quality health and claim outcomes. 
  • Independently managing a portfolio of TPD and IP claims end-to-end
  • Assess, analyse, calculate and finalise claims payments
  • Active engagement of external treating doctors, rehabilitation consultants as well as in house medical and legal specialists and delivering timely outcomes for our customer
  • Provide exceptional customer service in accordance with our philosophy, policy and claims procedures
  • Participate in case conferences, peer case discussions, and instructing third party service providers

Qualifications

  • Life insurance claims management experience within Group policy - IP and/or TPD claims experience is ideal OR;
  • Workers Compensation or Return to Work claims management experience with an Allied Health background 
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving & time-management skills
  • Excellent communication & empathy to support customers during challenging times.
  • Solid understanding of injuries, ilnesses and tratement 

Additional Information

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be: 

  • An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index 
  • Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change 
  • Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
  • We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community. 
  • Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.  

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks. 

#LI-Hybrid  

Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

If you are already a TAL employee please apply via the SmartRecruiters button in Workday and navigate to the Employee Portal. This is important to ensure that your application is recorded accurately.

Key Skills
Claims ManagementCustomer ServiceAnalytical SkillsProblem-SolvingTime ManagementCommunicationEmpathyUnderstanding of InjuriesUnderstanding of IllnessesUnderstanding of Treatment
Categories
Finance & AccountingCustomer Service & SupportHuman ResourcesHealthcare
Benefits
Competitive SalaryBonusAnnual ReviewsFlexible Work HoursHybrid ModelFull Training
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