Debt Recovery Assistant

About The Role

The main purpose of the role is to manage our domestic customers through the debt recovery journey. This includes dealing with outcomes following a debt collection visit by our third party partners. There could be other elements of the process that you would work on, such as updating our customer data, fixing any issues preventing debt collection, and supporting our customers who are behind with their energy bills.

Alongside this, you will also undertake other tasks that may include handling bereavement cases, checking and recording Power of Attorneys, bankruptcies, and any other related customer enquiries. We are not a contact centre, but you will be expected to be ready for, and answer a small volume of inbound calls each week, and when appropriate, contact customers and other interested parties by phone where it is appropriate to do so.

The work we do will have a significant impact on both the business and customers, so getting it right first time is crucial.

What you will do…

• Escalate accounts to our third-party debt collection agencies and manage any queries received as a result of this
• Investigate and resolve complex customer or account queries, providing resolutions within the agreed timeframes
• Work with other departments to fix accounts so they can go through the debt recovery process
• Liaising with letting agents, landlords, housing associations and other third parties to establish who is responsible for the energy usage at a property
• Handle other energy account administration, such as checking and recording Power of Attorneys, Bankruptcies and to manage accounts where the customer has passed away
• Be ready to answer and handle low volumes of inbound telephone calls (not a contact centre)
• Make outbound calls as required to chase up outstanding information we need
• Any other ad-hoc duties as requested by Manager or Head of Department

About You

Knowledge, skills, experience & behaviours:

• Experience in providing an excellent level of customer service
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good computer literacy, including Microsoft Word and Excel
• Experience in using multiple ‘sector specific’ software packages would be useful, but not essential
• Excellent listening skills, as well as verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to organise workload and multiple priorities
• Ability to prioritise your workload in order to meet challenging deadlines and response times
• Work in a logical and date driven way, subject to requirements
• Effective objection handling
• Numeracy and problem-solving skills
• Team Player
• Ability to build rapport
• Committed to continual improvement

About Us

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2023, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £21,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Referral programme
• Store discount
• Wellness programme

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Stroud: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status?

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 1652