Job title: Early Customer Engagement Specialist
Company: Bankwest
Job description:
This is a Casual position, approx. 24 hours per week.
Operating hours are between 6am – 6pm AWST Monday to Friday; availability is required during that period subject to business requirements.
Start date is August 26, 2024.
Training will be set hours (8 hours, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) for 2.5 weeks in our office in Murray Street, Perth.
Hybrid working will be available once competent in the role; you would then be required to be in the office once a fortnight.
Your business: Bankwest Collections and Hardship are rolled into a centralized Collections function across the group managing collections, recoveries, and financial difficulty in Perth. Collections and Hardship are responsible for recoveries of funds from customers who have fallen behind on their payments on their credit facilities like Credit Cards, Personal Loans, and Home Loans. We also help customers with a range of repayment options when they are experiencing significant hardship events to assist them during the period of hardship. The overall aim of the department is to return accounts to fully productive status and improve the financial wellbeing of our customers.
Your team: Collections and Hardship have 5 distinct teams within the department, all of which are fully focused on helping customers rehabilitate their credit facility. The Early Customer Engagement team supports our customers in their early arrears and offers short-term solutions that do not require more complex assistance, where a customer is experiencing financial difficulties that require either short or more medium-term support.
Your impact & contribution: You will effectively manage the handling of client early stage arrears and work with the customer to negotiate suitable payment arrangements. You will be responsible for achieving RPC and dollars recovered targets, with an overall focus on minimizing credit losses for Credit Cards, Personal Loans, and Housing Loans. You will do this via making outbound collections calls or inbound calls. In this role, you need to be able to recognize the risks and issues that may impinge on the recovery process.
Your responsibilities:
Successfully answer calls presented via an automated dialler system with the objective of achieving set RPCs and successful payment outcomes.
Negotiation and approval of repayment arrangements suitable to mitigate continued or further delinquency.
Identification of customers experiencing financial difficulty that require a different payment treatment and providing them with relevant information.
Utilise all key techniques in gaining commitment to make payment through following the Early Customer Engagement call Model.
Competence in the collections process on all arrears products.
Perform manual searches of customers in arrears when required.
Display the Group's core vision and values.
Identifying and updating details to ensure accuracy of all Customer information.
About You: You are highly motivated, empathetic, and resilient; with strong negotiation skills to achieve mutually agreeable outcomes. You demonstrate effective listening skills, with clear and concise communication skills. You have a drive to reach and exceed expectations and enjoy working within a fast-paced, high-energy environment.
Your development: If you live the values and demonstrate the people capabilities we can offer great opportunities. Whether you want to move across the organisation or up into higher leadership roles, the way you live the values and demonstrate the people capabilities are key. Use the capabilities required for this role as a guide to the critical skills and behaviours you need for your next move.
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Advertising End Date: 24/07/2024
Expected salary:
Location: Perth, WA
Job posting date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 07:12:43 GMT
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