Customer Advisor Advanced (Income)

United Utilities

The Role

Overview

Handle customer cash collections, negotiate payment plans, and resolve queries.

Key Responsibilities

  • query resolution
  • cash collection
  • customer contact
  • service excellence
  • workload management
  • billing update

Tasks

-Investigate a customer query to resolution and collect the cash -Own a customer contact from receipt through to resolution, ensuring promised actions are completed and the customer is kept up to date at all times. Striving for “one and done” -Provide the highest levels of customer satisfaction and service at each customer contact, regardless of source -Manage own workload and work under own initiative and to strict deadlines -Accurately update the billing system with all relevant info and within agreed SLA

Requirements

  • microsoft office
  • customer service
  • communication
  • teamwork
  • negotiation
  • regulatory

What You Bring

-Ability to deal professionally with internal and external colleagues across all levels -Adapt approach to cash collection depending on customers point in collection cycle -This role may not be eligible for the visa sponsorship -Great customer service skills -Understand and work within regulatory rules for handling written and telephone contacts -Excellent communication skills – written and verbal -Ability to work as a team to deliver high performance -Working experience of Microsoft office applications -Confident, assertive and proactive when dealing with customers and colleagues -Tenacious, resilience and negotiation skills

Benefits

-Mental health first aiders -Enhanced parental leave schemes -A generous annual leave package of 26 days, which increases to 30 days after four years of service (increases one day per year), in addition to 8 bank holidays -Salary Finance -Employee Assistance Plan -EVolve Car Scheme -A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover -MyGymDiscounts - gym and wellness benefit that offers up to 25% off on gym memberships and digital fitness subscriptions -A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme -Wealth at Work courses -MORE Choices flexible benefits -Deals and discounts -Up to 7.5% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements

The Company

About United Utilities

-It operates across North West England, supplying drinking water and treating sewage. -The company manages vast infrastructure, including thousands of kilometers of pipelines and nearly 600 treatment works. -Typical projects include reservoir management, leak detection, and wastewater upgrades. -Specializing in water and wastewater services, infrastructure upkeep, and renewable energy generation.

Sector Specialisms

Water

Energy

Infrastructure

Utilities

Industrial

Residential

Commercial

Buildings

Heavy Civil

Marine

Transport

Solar

Wind

Nuclear

Government

Visa Sponsorship

-this role may not be eligible for the visa sponsorship