Debt Recovery Assistant

2 months ago

Stroud, United Kingdom Ecotricity Group Limited Full time

**About The Role**

The main purpose of the role is to manage our domestic customers through the debt recovery journey. This includes dealing with outcomes following a debt collection visit by our third-party partners. There could be other elements of the process that you would work on, such as updating our customer data, fixing any issues preventing debt collection, answering queries from our third parties, and supporting our customers who may be experiencing permanent or temporary financial challenges.

Alongside this, you will also undertake other tasks that may include handling bereavement cases, checking and recording Power of Attorneys, Bankruptcies, and any other related customer enquiries.

We are not a contact centre, but you will be expected to be ready for, and answer a small volume of inbound calls each week and be proactive in making outbound calls to customers and other interested parties where appropriate to do so.

The work we do will have a significant impact on both the business and customers, so getting it right first time is crucial.

**What you will do **
- Escalate accounts to our third-party debt collection agencies and manage any queries received as a result of this.
- Investigate and resolve complex customer or account queries, providing resolutions within the agreed timeframes.
- Work with other departments to resolve accounts so they can go through the debt recovery process.
- Liaising with letting agents, landlords, housing associations and other third parties to establish who is responsible for the energy usage at a property.
- Handling other energy account administration, such as checking and recording Power of Attorneys, processing individual insolvencies, and managing accounts where the customer has passed away.
- Be ready to answer and handle low volumes of inbound telephone calls.
- Make outbound calls as required to chase up outstanding information we need to help progress accounts and answer customer or third-party queries.
- Any other ad-hoc duties as requested by Manager or Head of Department.

**About You**

Working within the Debt Recovery Team, you will be multi-skilled, flexible, and be reactive within a fast-paced office environment with fluctuating workloads. You will be positive and keen to learn with a can-do attitude.

You should be passionate about helping our customers and can think outside the box. You have experience in customer service and have excellent verbal and written communication skills, investigative skills, and a great eye for detail.

In addition to the core responsibilities, you may undertake other project-based work as the need arises within the team/ department. All aimed at delivering a high and consistent quality of service to our customers.

**Knowledge, skills & experience**
- Experience in providing an excellent level of customer service.
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good computer literacy, including Microsoft Word and Excel
- Experience in using multiple “sector specific” software packages would be useful, but not essential.
- Excellent listening skills, as well as verbal and written communication skills.
- Exceptional time management.
- Ability to organise workload and multiple priorities.
- Effective objection handling
- Numeracy and problem-solving skills
- Team Player, with experience working independently where required but also positively contribute to team performance, meetings, and projects.
- Ability to build rapport with colleagues, customers and third parties.
- Committed to continual improvement.

**About Us**

**What's in it for you...**

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including gym, shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

**Flexibility statement**

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity
- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain
- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too
- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks,

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