As a Collections Supervisor, you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day collections operations. Ensure clients are receiving their bills and are remitting payments in accordance with specified terms.  You will interact with clients as needed and work to continuously improve our collections process. As the Supervisor, you will be required to manage your team’s portfolio, prioritize debt issues as well as escalate issues as needed. You will also be responsible for the daily, weekly and month end reporting tasks as well as providing regular updates to the Management team as well as the business.

Performance Objectives:  
Clients
•    Use a combination of communication tools, primarily telephone and e-mail, to contact clients to discuss outstanding debt issues.
•    Utilising a combination of defined processes, case history and judgement, make decisions on next course of action, on a client-by-client basis.
•    Investigate and resolve occurrences of unallocated cash.
•    Display strong, positive, and impressive attitude when interacting with internal and external clients.
•    Effectively negotiates payment and solutions when addressing client concerns, issues, and complaints.
•    Stakeholder Management – Safeguard the long-standing goodwill relationship with internal and external clients.
Excellence
•    Analyse/monitor client A/R account balances for past due.
•    Making client contacts as per collections strategy (e.g., comfort calls, e-mails, follow-ups).
•    Utilize collections tools and workflow to manage contacts.
•    Effectively negotiates payment and solutions when addressing client concerns, issues, and complaints.
•    Escalate collection issues to field finance managers and business as needed.
•    Successfully handle most non-routine issues and escalate to management issues that cannot be resolved.
•    Ensure all work is performed in accordance with targets.
•    Plan and organize work so that Service Level Agreement objectives are realized.
•    Contribute ideas and actions towards the continuous improvement of processes within area of influence.
•    Understand and apply WTW’s Billing processes, policies, procedures, and internal control standards.

People
•    Actively support the team to ensure that debts are collected on a timely basis.
•    Interface with other GFS teams to ensure compliance with cross-team responsibilities (Project Maintenance, Billing and Cash Application teams).
•    Promote engagement activities to increase team morale.
•    Develop and retain team members through effective management practices.
•    Make strong contributions to the productivity of the team.
•    Work effectively within the team dynamic.
•    Recognize and communicate potential issues to management as appropriate; suggest viable solutions for improvement.
•    Build an inclusive culture and support the learning opportunities of the team.
•    Recruit, interview and hire qualified Collections team resources as needed.