
Customer Service Agent
- Cardiff
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You will speak to customers who have queries on their loan. Typically, you will have conversations regarding settlement quotations, payments, amending personal details and managing correspondence. In addition, you will:
- Have great conversations with our customers over the phone and through email
- Gather and collate necessary information and documentation from various systems to fulfil customer requests and action document updates to customers and 3rd parties
- Communicate effectively with customers and clients to acknowledge receipt of their requests, provide updates, and deliver responses within SLA timeframes.
- Maintain accurate records of all requests and actions taken to process them
- Treat our customers fairly ensuring they have a fair and compliant outcome
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for improvement
- Work within our standard practices & procedures
- Achieve the performance measures set. These will include quality, avoidable complaints, avoidable events & behaviours
- Understand our customers queries and dealing with it in line with HE’s policies and procedures.
- Customer service experience
- Contact centre experience
- Able to demonstrate what is needed to provide fantastic customer service experience
- Excellent organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills
- An understanding of the regulators involved in financial services
- Knowledge of GDPR.
- Experience in a similar role is desirable
- Experience in communicating effectively
- Confident in outbound calling to customers
- Confident, flexible, and self-motivated
- Articulate with the ability to interact with people at all levels
- A fast learner with the ability to acquire knowledge swiftly, work with the knowledge and pass it on as necessary
- Able to overcome objections and conflicts, proposing suitable methods of rectification
- Detail orientated with the ability to work methodically
- Able to prioritise tasks and workload to meet tight deadlines in a frequently changing environment
- Able to work proactively under your own initiative
- Adept at solving problems and possess strong analytical skills
- 28 days + 8 bank holidays. Option to buy more days through salary sacrifice.
- A cash payment annually towards flexible benefits, e.g., dental insurance, gym membership, the above extra holiday etc.
- x4 Life Assurance.
- Company sick pay (2 months full pay, 2 months half, following probation).
- Matched pension scheme (e.g., you pay in 6%, EQ pay in 6%), up to 10% each side (20% in total).
- Discounts with major retailers (EQ Wins).
- Maternity or adoption leave of 3 months full pay, with return-to-work bonus / 2 weeks paid paternity leave.