Capita

Customer Financial Assistant - work from home potential!


PayCompetitive
LocationPreston/England
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: 10088904
      How does it sound to earn £25,714.00 from day one with a rapid rise to £27,032.00 once you hit the required competencies?

      Do you want to work in a bustling & vibrant office environment, with FREE PARKING, access to local transport links, on-site canteen, restaurants & shops, plus a whole host more?

      What's more, we also have the opportunity to work from home if you prefer after your qualifying period! (usually around 4-6 months)

      If so, we want to hear from you!

      We're looking for empathetic and supportive colleagues to join our existing team servicing a well-known high street banking client based at Tulketh Mill in Preston.

      Job title:

      Customer Financial Assistant - work from home potential!

      Job Description:

      What's in it for you?

      • Be part of our rewarding pay progression scheme with a salary between £25,714.00, rising to £27,032.00
      • You will work 40 hours per week between 8am - 8pm, Monday - Friday on an 8-week shift rota with some Saturdays between 8am - 5pm. No Sunday shifts currently
      • Option to work from home after completing your qualifying period – full equipment provided.
      • Modern & vibrant office, with free parking , great transport links, on site canteen, plus several retail & food stores on your door step if you wish to venture!
      • Internal career progression platform called INSPIRE, which helps many colleagues to develop into a multitude of roles available with a clear development plan from the outset
      • Access to exclusive discounts, benefits and cash back, for all Capita Employees and their families! Retail, cinema, shopping, something for everyone!
      • 23 days' holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave.
      • We do work Bank Holidays but Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day are all non working days so, put your feet up! (If you are scheduled to work on a bank holiday, you will receive time and a half and a day in lieu to use at a later date).
      • Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks...and plenty more!
      • Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel, and technology
      • Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

      What you'll be doing:

      • Understanding the customers financial situation, providing options and solutions to help our customers get back to financial health. Always ensuring fair outcomes, including for our vulnerable customers
      • Building rapport, empathising, and having meaningful conversations with our customers to deliver excellent customer service
      • Embracing learning, coaching and development to continuously improve your skills and capability
      • Sharing ideas to improve the customer service experience
      • Making a real difference to people’s lives
      • Dealing with some of our more vulnerable customers and their complex needs

      What we're looking for:

      • Comfortable speaking with customers over the phone and asking questions on to gain a full understanding of our customers circumstances.
      • Have an excellent standard of both spoken and written English as you will be helping customers with complex financial needs
      • Making decisions considering the risk to the client and impact to the customer using guidance or advice where required
      • Navigating around our systems and ensuring all details entered are accurate – previous experience of using multiple CPU systems is essential
      • Ensuring all regulatory requirements are adhered to through training and compliance
      • This role would suit individuals who have experience of dealing with customers who have complex needs, who may have worked previously in a call centre environment, have first class communication skills and are able to complete work to a high standard. This is not an entry level role and some previous experience is essential – detailed below.
      • Do you tick any of the boxes of the below? If so, we want to hear from you!

      Essential experience – we require a minimum of one of the below.

      • Strong experience in a call centre customer service role…OR
      • Proven experience in a clerical environment…OR
      • Robust experience in a health care environment dealing with vulnerable clients…
      • In addition we also need experience of using multiple computer systems. Although full system training will be provided, you need to be competent using a mouse and keyboard

      Desirable experience…

      • Experience of working in a collections environment
      • Experience of working in Financial Services

      What will happen next:

      Choose ‘apply’ to submit a short application and complete our immersive online assessment.

      This assessment will introduce you to Capita and the Customer Advisor role, while measuring your suitability through a series of short tasks. If you’re successful, we’ll arrange a short video interview for you to learn more about the role and the client you’ll be working with. If you are again successful at this stage, you will meet a member of the Lloyds Banking Group team for a short video chat where we look to confirm we are the perfect match!

      You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita.

      You’ll be joining a network of 55,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

      Equal Opportunities

      We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.

      #CEOFFICEHIGH

      Location:

      Preston

      ,

      United Kingdom

      Time Type:

      Full time

      Contract Type:

      Permanent
  • About the company

      Capita is a consulting, digital services and software business, delivering innovative solutions and simplifying the links between businesses and customers, governments and citizens. We partner with clients to transform their businesses and services, taking on the complex and difficult things – so they don’t have to. As part of the fabric of UK society, we’re helping millions of people every day. Find out about what it's like to work for Capita: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL621945481482AF24&feature=plcp