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Senior Collections Advisor - Milton Keynes
Volkswagen Financial Services
📍 Cowley
HybridFull-timeContract
Job description
<h2>Senior Collections Advisor - Milton Keynes </h2><p > <ul id="ctl00_ctl00_ContentContainer_mainContent_fcVacancyDetailsDescription_ITSFields"><li ><p> <p ><h2>About The Role </h2> </p> </p> </li><li ><p> <p ><p > <!-- 2023.1.117.45 --><p><strong>SALARY: Starting from27,422 pa dependent on experience </strong> </p><p><strong>LOCATION: Brunswick Court, Milton Keynes </strong> </p><p><strong>HYBRID WORKING: </strong>Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role. </p><p><strong>HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full time Fixed term, 35 hours p/w </strong> </p><p><strong>CLOSING DATE: 10/05/2026 </strong>We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications. </p><p >We’re looking for a Senior Collections and Recoveries Advisor to act as a Subject Matter Expert within the department. Supporting colleagues in becoming experts within their role, whilst spending around 50% of time directly supporting customers themselves. </p><p >This <strong>specialist </strong> role will be instrumental in assessing our customer’s individual circumstances in order to resolve overall VWFS arrears levels while ensuring our regulatory and customer commitments are achieved. </p><p ><strong>What you’ll be doing: </strong> </p><p >• Take full ownership and use initiative to resolve customer arrears within first contact resolution and deliver a personal service “making VWFS easy to do business with" </p><p >• Provide technical coaching and training for Collections Advisors to enable them to effectively manage and resolve customer arrears </p><p >• Act as Collections role model demonstrating core skills around negotiation, difficult conversations, vulnerable customer management and active listening </p><p >• Coach and develop C&R Advisors on escalated calls, emails and letter checking to increase competence </p><p >• Provide clear and concise process expertise on a defined range of arrears and vulnerable customer processes and be recognised by others as a point of contact for advice, guidance and process improvement </p><p >• Provide first line support and guidance for Advisors and deputise for Team Manager where appropriate </p><p >• Support, coach and guide new C&R Advisors during the training and induction phase to embed knowledge and skill set for the role </p><p >• Work to agreed service levels, quality targets and operational metrics as determined by the department relating to all aspects of Collections and Recoveries and Customer experience </p><p >• Supporting recruitment up to Band 2 to ensure key departmental KPI’s are achieved </p><p >• Demonstrate subject matter expert knowledge and behaviour when identifying and managing vulnerable customers and complaints </p><p >Complete administrative tasks as per team requirements <br> </p> <p ><strong>What you’ll bring: </strong> </p><p >We are looking for a candidate that already has a sound understanding of Collections and Recoveries. </p><p ><strong>Essential experience & skills </strong> </p><p >• Demonstrable understanding of all relevant aspects legislation/requirements including but not limited to TCF, FCA, FOS </p><p >• Experience of working in a complaints environment, either within financial services or another industry type </p><p >• Proven experience in credit collections </p><p >• Previous customer service centre, call centre or finance company experience is desirable </p><p >• An understanding of the Data Protection Act and Consumer Credit Act is desirable </p><p >• Good knowledge of a wide range of processes and business systems i.e. SAP, CMS, CRM is desirable </p><p >• Strong communication skills at all levels including Senior Management and external stakeholders </p> <p><strong>What’s in it for you? </strong> </p><p><strong>Bonus: </strong>Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance) </p><p><strong>Pension: </strong>Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution. </p><p><strong>Car schemes*: </strong>Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance </p><p><strong>OR </strong>Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member. </p><p><strong>Other benefits: </strong>From day 1 we provide <strong>income protection, life assurance </strong>(4x salary), <strong>retail discount vouchers </strong>, access to <strong>Care Concierge </strong> (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a <strong>will writing service </strong> and <strong>cycle to work </strong> (subject to scheme restrictions). </p><p>Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to <strong>private medical insurance </strong> for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), <strong>access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars </strong> for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase <strong>critical illness cover </strong> and <strong>dental cover </strong>, so you can select the benefits that matter to you. </p><p>We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to <strong>LinkedIn Learning </strong> via our Degreed platform as well as a host of <strong>professional development programmes and opportunities </strong> to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer <strong>mentoring schemes </strong> and <strong>reciprocal partnerships </strong> recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work. </p> </p> </p> </p> </li><li ><p> <p ><h2>About You </h2> </p> </p> </li><li ><p> <p ><h2>About Us </h2> </p> </p> </li><li ><p> <p ><p > <p><strong>Why join VWFS UK? </strong> </p><p>You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission. </p><p>Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers. </p><p>No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you! </p><p>VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team. </p><p >This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role. </p> </p> </p> </p> </li> </ul> </p>
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