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Samuel Sefako

Samuel Sefako

Quality Assurance Consultant
Johannesburg

Summary

Determined Quality Assurance Specialist with dedication to quality and accuracy. Familiar with handling multiple projects in highly competitive environments. Solid interpersonal and collaboration skills. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Thorough Quality Assurance Specialist with 10-year background in Insurance Industry with Excellent resource management and allocation skills. Outstanding communication, organizational and time management talents.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Languages

Work History

Quality Assurance Consultant

Old Mutual Insurer
Johannesburg
10.2011 - 11.2022

· Review of all new, renewed and amended policy schedules for accuracy and completeness.

· Prepare reports on the quality of schedules submitted by each sale, client services and retentions consultants.

· Extract policy files, when required, download file requests and investigates missing files and other correspondence – download query calls and give feed back.

· Typing, changing, and controlling ALL quality documents.

Making sure that quality assurance is aligned with service standards within the operational environment

· Manage time and workloads to ensure that deadlines and targets are met.

· Measure and monitor service delivery compliance of team.

· Work as a team player, sharing necessary information and assisting other team members, where possible; take accountability for personally achieving set targets.

· Assisting with Coaching and Developing of Consultants / Feed Back.

· Also assisting the training department with roles play when necessary – New consultants.

· Coaching and developing of Consultants: Listening to Sales Calls – Listen to 3 calls per consultants.

· Develop and encourage strong teamwork.

· Share and transfer product, process, and systems knowledge to colleagues.

· Providing feed back to sales consultants.

· Review a range of calls for compliance purposes.

· Identify risk and compliance issues.

· Review issues detected with relevant role players.

· Ensuring the quality of all calls made based on benchmarks set by the Compliance Assistant and role players.

· Actively manage non-performance.

· Ensure the work environment enables employees to “live” the organization culture and values.

· Engage regularly in team or group problem-solving.

· Share knowledge on, and participate in the creation of new standards, control systems and procedures to maintain service delivery.

· Align own behavior with the organization culture and values.

· Assist other departments with research the Quality Assurance setting by pulling calls and reviewing them.

· Monthly reporting to internal clients and Compliance Assistant

· Identify gaps and feedback to training and coaching departments.

· Coordinates and facilitates call calibration sessions for Call Centre staff.

· Provides feedback to call center team leaders and managers.

· Assisting the Claims department by pulling the claims calls.

Additional duties within the department

Departmental Support

  • Team supervision/2IC in absence of Manager.
  • Team escalations of system issues to IT Department
  • Troubleshooting before logging calls with IT Department
  • Liaison to compliance department in tracing calls pertaining to query or complaints.
  • Transcribing of call relating to query or complaints on behalf of customer service retention department

Quality Assessor / Administrator

Sanlam Sky
Johannesburg
03.2009 - 09.2011

Quality Checks on various uploads – Data captured on system against application forms to ensure.

  • Monitor and check policy documents quality of data.
  • Manage complaints as and when available
  • Following up on outstanding requirements and errors with pending business.
  • Ensuring that weekly reports are generated and distributed on time.
  • Managing productivity levels per capturer to achieve high level of acceptance.
  • Capturing of new business from Brokers.
  • Assisting branches with capturing problems or Queries on products.
  • Correcting of wrong information on uploaded applications.
  • Policy Service: Updating client's information.
  • Improved product quality by implementing rigorous testing procedures and protocols
  • Facilitated open lines of communication between different departments involved in product development, ensuring that all parties were aware of their respective responsibilities concerning quality control efforts
  • Participated actively in audits conducted by external agencies, showcasing company's dedication to maintaining high-quality standards across all functions
  • Conducted thorough assessments for identifying areas of improvement in production processes
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to address root causes of quality issues and implement corrective actions
  • Reduced customer complaints significantly by initiating proactive process improvements and thorough evaluations
  • Administered 4 internal quality audits and assessed results to inform corrective action measures
  • Participated in departmental meetings to establish short- and long-term strategy
  • Created and collaborated in implementation and maintenance of customer complaint log
  • Performed routine maintenance and calibration on testing equipment

Retentions / Premium Collections

Channel Life
Johannesburg
06.2008 - 03.2009
  • Developed strong relationships with customers to foster timely payments and account resolution.
  • Located customers with overdue accounts and solicited payment in compliance with fair debt collection practices.
  • Collected on delinquent accounts to reduce overdue balances.
  • Oversee flow box to identify retention tasks and queries (cancellation requests, banking detail updates, etc.).
  • Analyze and investigate queries in flow box to action requested, to ensure retention of clients and effective query resolution.
  • Resolve retention and general queries.
  • Administer all premium collection changes on administration system.
  • Administer all debit order details on system in order to counter act rejection reasons.
  • Ensure after service delivery to internal clients and communicate effective resolution of queries.
  • Ensure execution of re-instatement s and arrears and provide feedback to management.
  • Analyzed account data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement in collection strategies
  • Achieved consistent monthly targets set by management regarding collected revenue amounts and percentage of delinquencies resolved
  • Negotiated settlements on behalf of clients, successfully minimizing financial loss for organization
  • Participated in cross-functional projects to improve overall company performance, showcasing strong teamwork and collaboration skills
  • Collaborated with team members to achieve departmental goals and improve overall performance
  • Streamlined internal processes by creating detailed reports on collection activity, improving decision-making capabilities for management

Education

Some College (No Degree) - N4 Personnel Management

Hillside View Technical College
Bloemfontein, South Africa
01.1994 - 06.1995

High School Diploma -

Reahola Secondary
Phuthaditjaba
01.1991 - 12.1991

Skills

  • Team Work

  • Flexibility

  • Adaptability

  • Collaboration

  • Collaboration

  • Problem Solving

Software

Computer skills

Word, Excel, Outlook

Email Social Media

Timeline

Quality Assurance Consultant

Old Mutual Insurer
10.2011 - 11.2022

Quality Assessor / Administrator

Sanlam Sky
03.2009 - 09.2011

Retentions / Premium Collections

Channel Life
06.2008 - 03.2009

Some College (No Degree) - N4 Personnel Management

Hillside View Technical College
01.1994 - 06.1995

High School Diploma -

Reahola Secondary
01.1991 - 12.1991
Samuel SefakoQuality Assurance Consultant