Debt Recovery Agent
Fintelligent Search
If you’re looking for a role where your communication skills, resilience and ability to negotiate are genuinely recognised and rewarded, this Debt Recovery Agent opportunity offers the chance to build a long-term career within an established legal services business.
You’ll manage your own portfolio of customer accounts, speaking with customers about their financial circumstances and working with them to establish realistic repayment solutions. This is a role where empathy and commercial awareness go hand in hand, with a strong focus on treating customers fairly while achieving positive outcomes.
You’ll join a supportive team where you’ll have the autonomy to manage your own caseload, alongside structured salary progression, hybrid working and ongoing opportunities for development.
Package & Benefits for the Debt Recovery Agent:
- £25,000 – £28,000 salary
- Structured salary progression based on performance and length of service
- Competitive bonus scheme
- Hybrid working following initial training, with a mix of home and office working
- 25 days’ annual leave
- No Bank Holiday working
- Medicash healthcare plan
- Free parking
- Birthday lunches and regular company social events
- Supportive working environment with opportunities for long-term career progression
The company is committed to treating customers fairly and achieving positive outcomes while maintaining high professional and regulatory standards. Employees are supported through training and development, with a clear focus on helping people build long-term careers within the business.
As a Debt Recovery Agent, you’ll take responsibility for managing a portfolio of customer accounts and working directly with customers to understand their circumstances and agree appropriate repayment solutions. You’ll need to balance excellent customer service with the ability to confidently negotiate and progress accounts, ensuring all activity is carried out in line with company policies and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities for the Debt Recovery Agent:
- Manage your own portfolio of customer accounts from initial contact through to resolution
- Contact customers by telephone to understand their financial circumstances and discuss their accounts
- Negotiate affordable repayment arrangements and settlement options in line with customer circumstances and regulatory requirements
- Handle sensitive and sometimes challenging conversations with professionalism, empathy and confidence
- Identify appropriate solutions while ensuring customers are treated fairly throughout the recovery process
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive records of all customer interactions and account activity
- Manage your caseload effectively to ensure accounts progress within required timescales
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve individual and team performance targets
- Maintain high standards of customer service, compliance and quality across all customer interactions
- Previous experience in contact centre customer service, collections, debt recovery or a similar customer-facing environment
- Excellent communication and active listening skills, with the ability to build rapport quickly
- Confidence negotiating solutions and handling challenging or sensitive conversations
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage your own caseload effectively
- A positive and resilient approach when dealing with difficult conversations
- A genuine desire to help customers while achieving commercial and performance objectives
- The ability to work towards individual and team KPIs
- A professional and customer-focused approach with strong attention to detail
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