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By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

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The Forensic advisory services (FAS) division of Sedgwick are our experts in measuring economic loss. They work extensively with both our loss adjusting colleagues and external parties, such as lawyers, to measure the value of commercial losses. Their work is varied and diverse and includes exposure to claims across a wide range of industries such as retail, hospitality, food production and manufacturing. Examples of their work includes:

Investigating and quantifying claims for business interruption (loss of profit)

Measuring and valuing large stock losses

Investigating and quantifying employee fraud

Measuring losses stemming from events such as cyber-attacks and product recalls

Preparing expert witness reports for matters in dispute

The FAS team in New Zealand is seeking to add an additional forensic accountant/financial loss adjuster. The candidate will ideally be based in our Auckland-Newmarket office, but an outstanding candidate could work remotely from anywhere in the country.

This is an entry-level protégé role into forensic accounting/financial loss adjusting.  On the job training and mentoring would be supplied from senior FAS team members and further studies in insurance loss adjusting would be encouraged. It would suit a candidate who has 2-4 years’ experience in accounting roles within audit, insolvency, commerce or analytics and is ready to apply these skills to the specialist field of forensic accounting/financial loss adjusting.

Desired skills and qualities for this role include:

Degree qualified and in the process of becoming a CA or similar

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel including ability to build financial models

Ability to multi task as the role involves working on, and balancing, a case load of claims

Highly developed interpersonal skills, both written and verbal

Would describe themselves as “financially curious”: a critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

A desire to contribute to business development and a passion for customer service

Naturally enthusiastic and collaborative in the team
 

Benefits of working for us:

Working for a leading global organisation with a fantastic reputation

We value and welcome diversity, acknowledging the strength this gives us as a team

Great team culture with opportunities for further career development

Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Fully funded studies in insurance loss adjusting and accounting

Global placement opportunities

To apply, please click APPLY NOW and provide your CV and Cover Letter

Caring Culture

It’s at the heart of everything we do, and we show we care by living our core values: Empathy, Accountability, Inclusion, Collaboration, and Growth. By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

Sedgwick is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to fair and accessible recruitment. If you need special accommodations, please let us know when applying.

If you are successful in joining our team, you will be required to complete provide reference checks, and working rights checks.

Why Sedgwick?

Sedgwick is the global leader in claims administration, loss adjusting, benefits administration, and product recall. We are committed to providing excellent service to our clients and are passionate about helping them through difficult times.

Every day, our colleagues are working to make the world better. They’re helping people recover after an injury or illness a loss. They’re assisting with damage from a natural disaster. They’re even giving back to others in their spare time, championing over 500 charities in communities around the world, and counting.

Whether you’re in loss adjusting, claims, customer service, nursing, engineering, IT or another specialty, there’s a place for you here to be a force for good

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, consider applying for it anyway! Sedgwick is building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and recognizes that each person possesses a unique combination of skills, knowledge, and experience. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.