Aged Debt Supervisor Full Time NEW

Bournville, Birmingham
Contechs Consulting

Aged Debt Supervisor

Bournville, West Midlands

6 Month Contract

20.35 per hour

Responsibilities:

• Hold weekly ledger reviews with Collections Executives to review outstanding debt, offering guidance and support to resolve complex queries
• Support Collections Executives with customer contact escalations, this will involve customer phone calls, emails and on occasions face to face to recover monies owed
• Conduct Overdues/Invalids meetings with Commercial
• Conduct daily and ad-hoc Overdues meetings with the Back Office, guide and support in driving actions to ensure timely customer payments are received
• Arrange ad-hoc meetings with key stakeholders to ensure required actions have been completed ahead of communications to the customer
• Assist / co-ordinate in the prompt resolution of customer queries during the collections cycle
• Undertake analysis of Root Cause Code in the Dispute Management System (DMS) to recognise common issues / trends
• Liaise with internal stakeholders to drive a reduction in future claims based on Root Cause findings
• Identify potential customer risks / behaviours and escalate to Credit Risk Analyst
• Ensure Collections Executive is adhering to defined SLAs within the collection process, and maintaining DMS Dispute Case data daily (“Housekeeping”), if not, identify root cause and take actions to resolve
• Increase capability/upskill the Collections Executive through training, mentoring and coaching
• Adopt a Customer Service-Orientated approach to build and maintain positive relationships with customers and internal stakeholders

Main purpose of the role:

• Responsible for a portfolio of customers with invalid claims and/or overdue invoices for which payment needs to be obtained
• Lead a team of two Collections Executives and work closely with Back Office, offering guidance on required actions and support with complex customer queries to aid in timely repayments
• High levels of collaboration amongst various internal and external stakeholders
• Expectation of root cause analysis to understand and improve customer behaviours

Qualifications:

• A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
• Credit control experience
• Expert in financial / ledger analysis
• High-level SAP competence
• Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods company
• Proficient organisational, prioritisation and time management skills
• Strong numerical, analytical and logical reasoning skills
• Experience of working within a customer facing role
• Experience in an Order to Cash environment
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office Applications, particularly Excel
• Able to identify and remove barriers to enable team success
• Ability to coach and lead others
• Effective Business Partnering
• Conflict and Relationship Management