Key Responsibilities
- Resolve past due and disputed items timely, maintaining customer relationships, meeting the team’s metrics consistently.
- Collaborate with customers, sales teams, and management to address various issues.
- Drive relationship excellence with customers, sales teams, and various stakeholders.
- Analyze information to determine the appropriate course of action.
- Ability to review and make decisions within ambiguous tasks.
- Mitigate customer risk through effective questioning, credit review, and setting appropriate credit limits.
- Ensure compliance with both internal and external controls.
- Adhere to and enforce policies and procedures to support organizational and Credit & Receivables requirements.
- Exercise judgment and initiative in resolving minor to moderately complex customer issues.
- Handling large quantity of customer portfolio account management, 400+ accounts / $7-$15M.
- Support supervisor administrative tasks
- Engage in other related duties as required or requested.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience in a similar role
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- High level of organizational and prioritization skills, with proven ability to implement as applicable towards job duties. A specialist III should be able to set prioritized agendas for their accounts on a regular basis. They should also be able to keep their account information organized and transparent amongst the team, which entails a high level of attention to detail.
- Ability to self-lead, lead by example, and motivate others.
- Proficiency in collections activities, including phone and email communication with customers, reconciling accounts, applying credits, and issuing refunds.
- Ability to reconcile data and research billing issues.
- Experience in working closely with sales teams, and comfortable participating in monthly meetings with sales and leadership.
- Knowledge in credit risk assessment, running credit reports, and establishing payment terms for new clients.
- Ability to conduct credit reviews for existing customers and consider credit increases.
- Research and apply new technologies and automation in work processes.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and think outside the box, especially in resolving invoicing issues.
- Collaborative skills to work effectively with the customer service team.
Proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Office Suite