Job Title: Customer Account Agent / Collections Assistant
Location: Guildford
Salary: £20,000 – £24,000 per annum, depending on experience + Quarterly bonus
Job Type: Full time, Permanent
Guildways is a forward-thinking and innovative financial services business that has the ability to follow up on accounts receivables around the world. Guildways operates at a fast pace dealing with multiple accounts every month whilst maintaining very high, self-imposed, service levels to ensure that the expectations of its clients are surpassed.
About the Role:
A customer account agent is required to join our fast-growing business that provides a fast and effective national financial recoveries service to our clients.
Guildways (a trading name of Lovetts) are looking for a focused individual to assist in following up on accounts receivables owed to its clients. You will be responsible for managing client caseloads, by handling telephone calls and dealing with written correspondence.
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing large volumes of work on a daily basis, making outgoing telephone calls and handling incoming calls.
The role will also require the successful candidate to keep clients regularly updated as to the status of their case.
Key Objectives:
- Assisting in increasing clients’ recoveries year on year
- Assisting in increasing sales; by client retention, extension into associated companies and identify opportunities to deliver additional services
The Candidate:
The Ideal candidate will be someone that has telephone experience and is able to speak confidently and clearly with people over the phone.
Essential Requirements:
- Telephone experience and skills
- Good written and oral communication skills
- IT and Math literate
- Good Negotiation skills with empathy
- Positive Attitude
- Accurate record keeping
- Recording contemporaneous notes
- Target driven
- Ability to handle large workloads and high volumes of cases.
- Problem solving
- Team worker
- Ability to organise and prioritise work
Benefits:
- Quarterly bonus
- Regular staff events
- Employee benefit programme
- Ongoing Training
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with experience of; Internal Account Manager, Sales Executive, Internal Account Executive, Account Manager, Inbound Sales, Client Services, Customer Service, Client Support, Telephone Customer Service, Telephone Sales Executive, Collections Assistant, Collections Administrator, Credit Controller, Credit Control, Administrative Assistant, Administrator, Client Services Administrator may also be considered for this role.
