Forward-thinking team leader skilled at operating departments efficiently to meet goals. Successful background matching employees with roles for maximum performance. Proactive and hardworking individual focused on continuous operational improvement.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Executive
The Mauritius, Union Assurance Cy. Ltd
11.2020 - 07.2023
Overlooking the “Prise En Charge” and Inpatient team for smooth running of the daily operations
Monitoring that guarantee of payments are sent to clinics on a timely manner when patients are admitted at clinics
Have decreased turnaround time of providing guarantee of payment to clinics upon discharged of our clients
Doing closely follow up for payments of claims to service providers and aim at decreasing the number of our debtors’ days
Overlooking the Assistance, In cash and Travel team where close follow ups are done for clients going abroad for medical treatment, for clients who settled their claims and send for refunds and for customers who took travel insurance with us
Attending to internal and external queries and provide good customer service to customers
Meeting with clients with complaints and try to a maximum to meet their expectations in line with the terms and conditions of the policy
Curriculum Vitae
Actively participating in discussion with the “Association des Assureurs” for implementation of price increase for clinics, review of the Scale of Cost and also appointment of new doctors and services provided by clinics
Providing monthly and weekly reports to management team and to other departments in regards of Outstanding Claims Report, Payment plans, credit limit reports, etc
Reviewing and analyzing price increase sent by clinics and provide suggestions for the implementation
Involve in the implementation of new information system and responsible for maintaining the Masters for price increase of clinics, the Scale of Cost, addition and deletion of new providers, clinicians, etc.
Head of Debtors
C Care
04.2018 - 06.2020
Work towards monthly target to reduce the debtor balance and debtors’ days and identify opportunities for continuous improvement
Supervises the production of weekly, monthly & quarterly debtors’ reports and develops reports for control purposes
Ensures integrity and compliance to internal controls
Engages in project management, leads and drives system process improvement activities
Resolves account receivables issues with both the internal and external customer and also assist in monitoring, tracking and enforcing departmental policies, procedures and goals
Initiates legal or other recovery actions against customers who are delinquent
Manage all the relationship with doctors by making their payment and statement of account on a monthly basis and by assisting them for any queries
Build strong working relationship with insurance companies and corporates in order to provide a good working environment between both parties
Organising monthly or quarterly meetings with external customers
Develop service level agreements with different business areas and regularly report performance against SLA with the use of KPIs
Attending morning meetings and management meetings regularly and cascading information to staff members
Involve in the implementation of the new Hospital Information System and ensure that all data migration was correctly done
Curriculum Vitae
Manage and develop team: monitor workload, ensure job proficiency, develop career goals by evaluating and monitoring individual staff performance and giving appropriate feedback, identify training and development needs
Lead and motivate staffs to achieve excellent customer service standards, retain staffs and create a good working environment, recognize accomplishments, and serve as role model and coach by providing feedback to improve performance and executing progressive discipline as needed
Establish, communicate and manage goals and expectations for department and individual performance
Continuously work to identify broken processes; develop, recommend and implement improvements
Plan and facilitate effective team meetings to share important customer or product knowledge resulting in improved communication and proactive resolution to customer inquiries
Promotes the best image for the company through the professional appearance and behaviour and adhere to company standards and procedures
Insurance Coordinator
Clinique Darné
10.2015 - 04.2018
As Insurance Coordinator was responsible to facilitate the discharge
process and make recommendations to management for any
improvement, determine patient’s financial responsibilities by liaising
with different insurance companies for “prise en charge” of insured
patients and coverage
Reply to queries from insurance companies on
time and inform the concerned customers accordingly & resolve claim
rejections for eligibility, coverage and other issues
Curriculum Vitae
Liaise with doctors for payment of their fees and receivables by preparing
their monthly statement of account & also attending to their queries.
Claims Manager
Metropolitan Health Mauritius Ltd
01.2012 - 06.2015
As claims manager was accountable for managing, leading and developing
a customer focused team
Responsible for ensuring customers receive
professional, attentive care in a time manner and for proactively
identifying, developing and executing customer focused solutions to
enhance the customer service experience on day to day operations
Manage and develop team: monitor workload, ensure job proficiency,
develop career goals by evaluating and monitoring individual staff
performance and giving appropriate feedback, identify training and
development needs
Lead and motivate staffs to achieve excellent customer service standards,
retain staffs and create a good working environment, recognize
accomplishments, and serve as role model and coach by providing
feedback to improve performance and executing progressive discipline as
needed
Establish, communicate and manage goals and expectations for
department and individual performance
Continuously work to identify
broken processes; develop, recommend and implement improvements
Plan and facilitate effective team meetings to share important customer or
product knowledge resulting in improved communication and proactive
resolution to customer inquiries
Investigate, Negotiate and settle claims within delegated Authority
Regularly review outstanding claims and liaise with the Finance
Department to ensure the adequacy of claim reserves
Prepare all statistics required by Management including Average Claim
Ratio
Communicate with other department managers pertaining to issues
related to claims processing and vice versa
Develop and maintain beneficial working relationships with subordinates
and colleagues and meet inter departmental deadlines
Promotes the best image for the company through the professional
appearance and behavior and adhere to company standards and
procedures
Curriculum Vitae
Contribute in developing, updating and implementing policies and
procedures to suit the functional objective of the business
Conduct staff
appraisal using company performance appraisal tool
Responsible in implementation of the core processes with accountability
on the overall performance of the department
Suggest updates in policies and procedures within the department to be
followed by the staff members
Manage process claims targets and quality check of data & efficiency of the
staff members according to operational measures
Maintain the productivity reports of the team members, preparing &
maintaining monthly Process Report
Suggest training requirements of staff to ensure productivity and growth
Ensure contractual agreements are being met with service providers on a
monthly basis.
Senior Claim Assessor
Metropolitan Health Mauritius Ltd
06.2011
In charge of the team members for the claims department
Ensure that
proper controls were set in place in order for the good settlement of
claims
Works with close collaboration with other department in order to
provider a good customer service to our clients.
Billing Supervisor
Apollo Bramwell Hospital
06.2009 - 05.2011
Participation in the induction program for the opening of the hospital and helping into the implementation of procedures for the billing department
In charge of shift management (either morning or evening) and roster organisation.
Front Office Supervisor
Constance Le Prince Maurice Hotel
06.2008 - 10.2008
In charge of the team members for the front office department
Roster organisation, annual appraisal for team members and close collaboration with all other department
Also attending management meeting.
Head Receptionist
Le Prince Maurice Hotel
10.2004
In charge of shift management (either morning or evening) at the reception
as well as client hospitality management
Receptionist
Le Prince Maurice Hotel
04.2002
Client hospitality management (check-in/ check-out, client billing, manage
the cash float on a daily basis
Receptionist
Le Coco Beach Hotel
07.2001
Client hospitality management (check-in/ check-out, client billing, manage
the cash float on a daily basis)
F&B Cashier
Paradise Cove Hotel, Cap Malheureux
11.1999
Manage the cash float for the food and beverage department
F&B Cashier
La Plantation Hotel, Aux Piments
05.1999
Participation in the induction program for the opening of the hotel and in
the appropriate courses (grooming courses, etc…)
Manage the cash float
for the food and beverage department.
Education
Certificate of Accomplishment for Skill Development Program in -
Financial Services Institute
Mauritius
08.2021
Diploma - Hotel Management
Rushmore Business School, University of Birmingham
Mauritius
2009
Front Office - Hospitality
Hotel School of Mauritius
Mauritius
08.2000
School Certificate -
Mahatma Gandhi Institute Moka
Mauritius
1996
Skills
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with ability to hire, lead, develop, evaluate, motivate and retain staff in customer-focused team setting
Ability to differentiate between good and poor customer service and train and coach employees towards improvement
Professional communication skills: verbal and written, and astute listening skills with ability to connect with customer
Time management, prioritization and organizational skills while maintaining focus on customer needs