Collections Representative

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Collections Representative

Join our team and grow with us! We need account receivable specialists to respectfully recover past due consumer accounts. As a recovery professional you will complete our two-week professional recovery agent training, then work to resolve open accounts with customers. You will be responsible for using negotiation methodologies, maintaining trustful customer relationships, and ensuring timely payments toward recovery goals.

If you believe you have a persuasive personality and enjoy helping people toward their financial goals, this is the career for you. We provide a professional environment, great pay structure, and plenty of new accounts! You provide the work ethic and professional attitude.

This is an experienced-level position that offers on the job paid training. Compensation is commensurate with experience. Prior contact center experience, experience in customer service, tech support, sales, or back-office support is required.
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POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

WHAT DOES SOMEONE IN THIS ROLE ACTUALLY DO?

Do you strive for excellence and enjoy helping others? This position is responsible for reaching out to open accounts using the latest contact center technology and ethical recovery strategy. Improve relations with open accounts and promote brand awareness as you become a highly trained expert on products, technology, and business process. In addition to being the best in the business, you will need to be confident, fully engaged, a team player, and dedicated to bringing a positive and enthusiastic outlook to work each day.

Essential Duties

Utilize various contact technology and recovery strategies to locate right parties.

Understand the customers situation and identify best means of payment plan.

Negotiate payment terms with empathy, tact, and professionalism.

Make outbound and receive inbound calls.

Follow all required scripts, policies, and procedures.

Respond effectively to common challenges to collection calls while discussing means of resolving open accounts.

Meet monthly goals and perform other assigned duties.

Attend meetings and training and review all new training material to stay up-to-date on changes to program knowledge, systems, and processes.

Adhere to all attendance and work schedule requirements.

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS:

WONDER IF YOU ARE A GOOD FIT?

We provide all new employees with world-class training, so all positive, driven, and confident applicants are encouraged to apply. Ideal candidates for this position are highly motivated, energetic, and dedicated.

Qualifications

Must be 18 years of age or older

High school diploma or equivalent

Excellent organizational, written, and oral communication skills

The ability to type swiftly and accurately (20+ words a minute)

Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)

Basic understanding of Windows operating system

Highly reliable with the ability to maintain regular attendance and punctuality

The ability to evaluate, troubleshoot, and follow-up on customer issues

An aptitude for conflict resolution, problem solving and negotiation

Must be customer service oriented (empathetic, responsive, patient, and conscientious)

Ability to multi-task, stay focused and self manage

Strong team orientation and customer focus

The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where change and ambiguity prevalent

Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with your team and customers

COMPENSATION DETAILS:

WANT AN EMPLOYER THAT VALUES YOUR CONTRIBUTION?

We believe that hard work should pay off, so we make sure that our compensation and total rewards are competitive. Standard starting compensation is commensurate with experience. Regular reviews and raises are awarded based on tenure and performance, so our employees make more each year.

Employees earn paid time off as well as paid holidays and paid training opportunities. Regular daily, weekly and monthly incentives are part of the overall compensation our team members enjoy and include monetary incentive and prizes such as computers, tablets, phones, TV's, trips, tickets, and even cars. In addition to our standard group benefits offering for full-time employees following 90-days of employment, all employees are eligible to opt for our MEC medical plan after only 30-days of employment. Benefits options and plans vary slightly by location.

JUST A FEW OF THE BENEFITS

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage Options

Paid Time-Off

Regular Raises

Advancement Opportunity

Fun, Engaging Work Environment

Casual Dress Code

Cash and Prize Contests

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This job operates in a professional office environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be largely sedentary and will be required to sit/stand for long periods while using a computer and telephone headset. The employee will be regularly required to operate a computer and other office equipment, including a phone, copier, and printer. The employee may occasionally be required to move about the office to accomplish tasks; reach in any direction; raise or lower objects, move objects from place to place, hold onto objects, and move or exert force up to forty (40) pounds.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

Must be authorized to work in the country where the job is based.

Must be willing to submit up to a LEVEL II background and/or security investigation with a fingerprint. Job offers are contingent on background/security investigation results.

Must be willing to submit to drug screening. Job offers are contingent on drug screening results.

REGARDING COVID-19:

As an employer supporting critical Federal, State, Provincial, and Commercial clients, we have taken steps to ensure that we remain operational while taking every precaution possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and keep our employees safe.

Measures include social distancing for those working on-site, frequent deep cleaning and disinfecting of workstations and common areas, daily contactless temperature checks for those essential employees working on-site, travel policies limiting travel and mandatory quarantine, reporting and quarantine processes and policies for those exposed, and requesting masks to be worn when on-site employees are not at their workstation.

For more information on MCI's response to COVID-19 please visit .

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

At MCI and its subsidiaries, we embrace differences and believe diversity is a benefit to our employees, our company, our customers, and our community. All aspects of employment at MCI are based solely on a person.