San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines
Collections Specialist /AR Associate
Job Description:
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Role: Collections Specialist /AR Associate
Compensation: Competitive Basic Salary
Bonus: 5,000 Perfect Attendance
Benefits: HMO plus 2 Free Dependents, Php 1,500 Rice Allowance, Night Differential (If applicable).
Work Schedule: 5-day work week, Monday to Friday, 9pm to 6am Philippine time
Work Setup: WFO (San Fernando, Pampanga)
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively contacting customers via phone, email, or other communication methods to follow up on outstanding invoices and ensure timely payments.
- Investigating and resolving customer account discrepancies, billing errors, or payment issues.
- Monitoring and managing aging reports to identify overdue accounts and prioritize collection efforts.
- Documenting all collection activities, communications, and agreements in the appropriate systems.
- Collaborating with internal departments, such as sales, billing, and customer support, to resolve disputes or concerns that may impact payments.
- Escalating unresolved or high-risk accounts to management for further action.
- Providing regular updates on collection progress, issues, and trends to the Manager of A/R.
- Building positive relationships with customers to maintain goodwill while ensuring accountability for outstanding balances.
- Making phone calls and corresponding with customers in a fast-paced, goal-oriented Accounts Receivable department
- Research, resolve and respond to issues and inquiries from customers
- Responsible for reducing delinquency on their assigned accounts
- Identify and assist with implementation of process improvement opportunities in the collection process
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with customers and internal stakeholders
- Provide excellent and considerate customer service to customers and business partners
- Dive into the details. Truly understand a customer concern from end to end and then work internally to project manage that issue to resolution, leading to a payable invoice
- Deliver high service levels daily, maintaining customer satisfaction levels and supporting customer retention efforts.
Qualifications:
- 1-3 years experience in an A/R or B2B Collections role
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience required
- Ability to problem-solve, multitask and reprioritize tasks
- Proactive problem solving: Ability to identify potential issues before they arise and effectively address them to mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities
- Ability to independently research, resolve and respond to inquiries or issues from customers
- Disciplined execution: Detail-oriented and organized, this leader prioritizes effectively, excels at time management, and anticipates well in decision-making
- Excellent customer service and conflict resolution skills
- Excellent written, oral and verbal communication abilities
- Ability to identify and resolve complex issues requiring changes in priorities and workflows or partnering with other business units