Customer Support Consultant - Arrears (12m FTC)

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As a Customer Support Consultant working in the arrears department of Principality Building Society, you will be part of a friendly team delivering outstanding service to our customers.

Our Customer Support Consultants work closely with customers who are in early arrears to help bring their accounts back into good health, agreeing repayments that are affordable and sustainable.They do this by taking the time to understand the customer’s individual situation, showing empathy and respect, and providing fair outcomes and positive experiences all times.

The successful candidate will need to be able to manage challenging conversations with vulnerable customers and those in financial difficulty, taking care to identify the most effective solution to help them through that journey.

Responsibilities will include:

• Be responsible for ensuring interactions with customers, mainly by telephone but also written and deliver consistent fair outcomes. This will be achieved by fully understanding customer’s individual circumstances through fact finding, completing a budget planner, providing an appropriate level of support and implementing forbearance where suitable
• To identify indications of potential or actual vulnerability and financial difficulty by using soft skills to encourage and reassure good customer interaction.
• Provide a stand out service to customers, ensuring the fair treatment in all aspects of the role.
• Be able to hold challenging conversations regarding the legal recovery of outstanding mortgage arrears, as well as explaining the mortgage enforcement process (repossession) to customers experiencing this, as a last resort.

What we are looking for:

• Someone who is enthusiastic, ambitious and customer focussed, ideally with experience in a collections-based role.
• A Customer service background dealing with customers over the phone
• Ability to display empathy and treat our customers with respect
• Numeracy and literacy
• A working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (Word, Outlook and Excel)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications.

If you have any questions in relation to this role, please contact the recruitment team – recruitment@principality.co.uk.

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