Collections Associate, Checkatrade
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
Open for applications
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be a modern online marketplace working towards becoming the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a skilled negotiator, a proactive self-starter with a friendly disposition, and possess the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently, we encourage you to apply for the position of Collections Associate at Checkatrade
- If you are a true service professional and love the idea of troubleshooting issues, removing barriers, and providing top-class service, we’d love to hear from you!
- You should be an excellent negotiator with a confident telephone manner, capable of explaining and influencing clearly and concisely. You will also be comfortable making inbound and outbound calls
- Be positive, proactive, and eager to learn and progress. Exhibit a "can-do" attitude and maintain a friendly attitude while striving to achieve targets and timelines
- Strong IT and administrative skills are essential for keeping accurate and up-to-date records
- Thrive in a team environment and possess strong interpersonal skills. Empathy, positivity and integrity go a long way. We are non-scripted, personable and authentic
- Maintain composure under pressure, manage multiple tasks, and ensure that operational needs and departmental goals are met consistently
- Excellent communication skills, including patience to listen and learn about problems before offering solutions
- Be quick to adapt and proactive in response to changes in processes or departmental initiatives
What the job involves
- As a Collections Associate at Checkatrade, your role is crucial to ensuring the financial health of our organisation
- You will report to the Credit Control Associate Manager and play a pivotal part in the recovery of outstanding client debt
- Your primary responsibilities include contacting tradespeople, negotiating repayment plans, and maintaining accurate records while upholding our high standards of professionalism and accuracy
- You will play a pivotal role in supporting our trade members, ensuring their accounts are paid on time and within agreed terms. 49,000 trade members and growing, our collections team is sizable and well-trained in providing first-class customer service, whilst managing member expectations on contractual agreements and payment deadlines
- Your day-to-day will involve undertaking high volume of calls to existing trades (inbound and outbound), processing payments, setting up new direct debit schedules, agreeing on payment terms and removing any barriers to payment
- You’ll also have an opportunity to work on a wide range of systems and tools including Sage, Zuora billing engine, Salesforce CRM and Web Office
- Full training will be provided to ensure you are best set to accurately record information
Our take
Checkatrade created the online market for searching, engaging, and reviewing tradespeople back when the digital age was just beginning. Now a household name, it's on a huge growth journey to once again lead the market in every home improvement project seamlessly for both consumers and tradespeople, through its end-to-end digital marketplace. Put simply, Checkatrade connects people with highly skilled, quality tradespeople - and the trades with the tools they need to do their jobs.
Checkatrade has ambitious plans for expansion and innovation. It offers the agility of a start-up with the reassurance of an established organisation and has a team of more than 500 working flexibility from both Portsmouth and its R&D Hub in the heart of Kings Cross.
Recent initiatives such as launching a new quoting and invoicing tool, demonstrate its ongoing efforts to continuously improve user experience and streamline and automate operations for both consumers and trades. The company has made sure it stands out against its competitors with its commitment to trust and quality, raising standards and its dedication to customer satisfaction.
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Checkatrade is changing how our business works, moving from a directory to a marketplace, and this comes with it a huge amount of opportunities to..."
Company benefits
- 💰 Annual company wide bonus plan - when company wins, we all win
- 💷 Wellness cashplan- Claim back money on opticians, dentists and hospital stays so you can keep your health in check.
- 👩⚕️ 24/7 Online GP Service - Health App
- 💪 Gym membership - Pure gym membership
- 🛍️ Discounts and cashback for 100s of retailers across the UK
- 🚗 Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- 💻 Smart Tech Scheme - get the gadgets you want whilst spreading the payments interest free for up to 24 months
- 😋 Free food & Drinks
- 🎉 Company events
- 🗎 Life assurance
- 🏥 Private Medical - depending on the role you may qualify for a PMI
- 👵🏽 Pension - 4%
- 👶🏿 26 Weeks full maternity pay
- 👶🏼 4 Weeks paternity pay
- 🏖️ Buy and sell holiday
- 🎗️ Charity leave - How does one week every year to support a cause close to you in addition to your annual leave sound?
- 👥 Recommend a friend scheme
- 📱 Mobile Phone Allowance
- 🧒 Workplace Nursery scheme- committed to helping ease that financial pressure for our valued employees
Company values
- Be All In: We are moving at pace – enjoy the journey, embrace the opportunity and own the outcome
- Always Customer Obsessed: We are testing and learning together – listen to our customer insights continuously and evolve our approach
- Do The Right Thing: We work with integrity in everything we do – do the right thing for our team and customers
- Be Bold: We are ambitious and think big – speak up and go direct to deliver our mission together
- Get It Done: We are here for exceptional outcomes – have a bias for action to deliver them
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkatrade
Jo Agar (Internal Communications Manager )
- We are all about positive action and promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Whether it’s creating awareness of the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce, to having the right policies, processes, and training in place, we are committed to making sure that at Checkatrade each individual feels valued and accepted. We have task forces to drive our D&I agenda, we have initiatives in play to support employee wellbeing and we run regular engagement surveys to track employee satisfaction too and take action on responses.
- We’re proud to say that women make up 26% of our total tech workforce and 35% of our senior leadership team. We have an established “Women In Tech” network, who are supported to explore their tech careers and grow their influence and networks. We’re for everyone and we build together for our customers.
- We partner with She Can Code to actively drive diversity hiring.
- We run an in-house mentoring scheme aimed to support your growth with us.
- We value diverse ideas, innovation, and are focussed on inclusivity. We take a tech-first approach to removing barriers to success for our people, our consumers, and our trade members.
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