Senior Debt Recovery Specialist Port Elizabeth

7 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa The Recruitment Council Full time

Our client is on the hunt for a Senior Debt Recovery Specialist and you will need to provide support to Credit Risk Advisors, and guidance to the credit risk team, in order to improve customer cashflow and minimise risk by proactively recovering any outstanding debt, using a variety of approaches and keeping the customer informed throughout the process.

The Client's Employee Vision:
We are a dynamic, driven team with a strong culture of teamwork. We thrive in a fast-moving, competitive environment, full of opportunity. Our growth path challenges our team to look beyond the job description and to improve relentlessly and we support our team in doing so.

Key Performance Areas:

- Ensure effectiveness in operations
- Achieve debt collection targets
- Expert Knowledge of operating system
- Ensure customer satisfaction
- Manage legal files
- Support Credit insurance processes
- Employee engagement, incorporating company values

Position Requirements:
Qualifications:

- Trust, Pride, Loyalty, Passion, Integrity and Respect
- NQF qualification / diploma or degree will be an advantage.

**Experience**:

- 10 years’ experience at practicing kindness, compassion, empathy and patience
- Minimum of five years’ experience in debt collection or credit control. Two to Three years’ experience with Credit Insurance.
- Experience in a Legal firm will be an advantage.

Competencies:

- Problem solving
- Dealing with pressure
- Conflict handling
- Resilience
- Communication skills
- Computer skills
- Attention to Detail
- Understand basic accounting principles and annual financial statements

Core Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
Management, motivation and leadership:

- Accountable for own work, own time, own delivery.
- Ensure operational excellence
- Ensure attainment of standards set by higher level management for self and DRS’s
- Volunteers for activities beyond expectations and normal boundaries of the job
- Initiate resolution of operational problems within sphere of control.
- Deliver results as per individual KPI’s.
- Manage expectations and communicates timeously
- Mobilise resources where assistance to the team is required to ensure high level of client satisfaction.
- Manage upwards by passing on information challenging and contributing to the success of the team and the business.

Organising and Planning:

- Plans have a time span of 1 day to 3 months.
- Planning to include routine and non-routine tasks.
- Schedule own tasks and tasks of DRS to get work done.
- Maintain a diary system or schedule
- Make use of other resources when required
- Responsible for planning of own work to ensure effective time management.

Effectiveness and Delivery:

- Make recommendations on quality of own work, be self-aware.
- Resolve operational problems and escalate.
- Exercise judgement within technical area of work,
- Solve technical problems within technical discipline
- Make recommendations that will solve the problem at hand
- Understand the background in order to make recommendations
- Take action or consider more than one solution to operational problems
- Operate on facts, ensure all facts are known and guide Debt Recovery Specialists to do same.
- Pragmatic, logical and disciplined

Commitment and Effort:

- Accountable for best operating practice
- Accountable for the contribution and effectiveness of the operation within area of responsibility
- Exhibit professional pride
- Management and individual contribution
- Mobilise DRS’s to deliver standard of work, including meeting deadlines
- Ensure attainment of the specified standards
- Builds excellence in other DRS’s by setting the example
- Facilitate a quality-controlled culture

Initiative and Innovation:

- Demonstrates creativity and encourages new ideas from others
- Suggests various ways of improving workflows and productivity in area of expertise
- Always seek new ideas and ways to improve and encourage an innovative culture
- Display energy when having to complete tasks
- Mobilise self and others to take action
- Executes tasks timeously

Manage Operations:

- Computer literate - Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Communication Skills - The ability to communicate technical information to nontechnical audiences
- Administrative Duties - Receives, analyses, and documents all written and verbal communication and correspondence on a timely basis in order to keep relevant audience up to date
- Understanding the system and utilizing all functions (creating views, pulling reports, capturing payments and payment schedules, generating documents, etc.) including documentation generation, to maximise efficiency and workflow procedure
- Utilise the system for reminders, updates, correspondence, reports, assigning tasks and tracking workflows
- Keep Credit Risk Advisor abreast of progress
- Must ensure minutes are communicated within 72 hours for debtors’ meetings and 48 hours for any other meetings or notes to file.
- Identi



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