Collections Executive

Cabot Financial; Dublin; On-site; EUR 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Cabot Financial in Ireland is seeking a target-driven collections professional to contact existing and new customers by telephone to negotiate outstanding payments for leading financial institutions. You will join an experienced team focused on maximizing cash collections from serviced and purchased debt and monitoring customer accounts.

The role requires self-motivation, a commitment to improving negotiation skills, and the ability to handle a high volume of accounts while meeting weekly and

Qualifications

• Previous telephone experience.
• Professional in approach and able to deal with a variety of individuals.
• Excellent communication and numeracy skills.

Responsibilities

• Contact customer by telephone to negotiate payment strategy.
• Keep broken arrangements to a minimum.
• Ability to work a large volume of accounts.
• Achieve and surpass weekly and monthly collection targets.
• Ensure compliant and customer-focused collections.
• Manually update accounts from calls and edit information.
• Assist with ad hoc administrative tasks as designated by Team Leader.

Skills

Telephone experience

Negotiation

Communication

Numerate

Tools

Word/Excel/Outlook

Job description

Utilising the Revenue Management System which assigns a list of accounts to call, the jobholder will make telephone contact with existing and new customers with a view to negotiating outstanding payments for Ireland’s leading financial institutions. The candidate will be joining an experienced collections team whose job it is to maximise the cash collected on our serviced and purchased debt. They will ensure that customer accounts are monitored on a continuous basis and will deal with customer account queries. In this demanding environment, the jobholder will need to be target driven, self-motivated, and demonstrate a commitment to constantly improving negotiation skills by being receptive to feedback and focusing on win-win solution. Under the MCC F&P regime please note that this role is a CF3 & CF4.Key Accountabilities & ResponsibilitiesContact customer by telephone to negotiate payment strategy.Keep broken arrangements to a minimum.Ability to work a large volume of accounts.Achieve and surpass weekly and monthly collection targets.Ensure compliant and customer focused collections.Manually update accounts and edit information gained from calls.Use new technology such as text and voice over text to maximize collections.Assisting with ad hoc administrative tasks as designated by Team LeaderKnowledge & ExperiencePrevious telephone experience.Ability to negotiate the optimum collection commitment for the company.Professional in approach and able to deal with a variety of individuals.Working knowledge of Word/Excel/OutlookSkills & attributesGood communication skills.Determined and focused.Numerate and Literate.Enthusiastic and positive.Flexible, adaptable and keen to try new methods and systems.