Bill to Cash Operations Associate

**Bill to Cash Operations Associate**:

- Job Req ID: 40778
- Posting Date: 5 Nov 2024
- Function: Business Operations
- Unit: Finance & Business Services
- Location: DLF IT Park,Phase II, IIF/1, Kolkata, India
- Salary: competitive

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**Why BT?**
We’ve always been an organization with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

**Why this job matters**:
The Service Delivery Advisor 2 assists in service delivery activities across multiple customer accounts, supporting customer needs to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction and that expectations are met and surpassed with some supervision.

**What you’ll be doing**:
1. Discussing payment of invoices with business customers to secure payment or remove barriers to making payment.
2. Improving cash flow at every opportunity by telephone, encouraging preferred payment methods, educating customers to improve payment patterns, and minimise overdue debt without compromise to customer satisfaction.
3. Resolve simple enquiries and aim to resolve in a professional, quality manner, within agreed targets.
4. Meeting set targets for cash collection/overdue debt, enquiry resolution, productivity, quality, and customer experience
5. Protecting and developing customer loyalty through the provision of an excellent Billing service to our customers.
6. Ensuring all communication with our customers is clear and concise and always portrays BT in a positive and professional image.
7. Capturing dispute details and ensure they route to the correct enquiries team for resolution.
8. Adhering to strict validation of customer contacts to protect customer data in accordance with GDPR guidelines.
9. Ability to work at speed and maintain high levels of accuracy/quality
10. Strong/fluent business English communication skills (oral and writing)
11. The ability to escalate effectively where delays are being experienced in resolving customer issues which could result in late payment of invoices/impact customer experience
12. Maintaining accurate records of conversations/actions taken and ensure all reporting is completed within the agreed timescales
13. The ability to use process guidelines effectively but also to think laterally when needed to help customers
14. A willingness to continually challenge, help to evolve and improve enquiry/dispute scenarios
15. Attending conference calls/meetings/1:1’s/forums when/where required
16. Supporting your colleagues, Line Manager, and the wider BT functions.

**The skills you need**:
1. Background and experience in Customer experience/service, most preferably credit management and resolution of customer enquiries/complaints.
2. Experience in managing key stakeholder relationships across operational teams and multiple Customer Facing Units including (but not limited to) Sales, Invoicing, Payment Services
3. Excellent Customer relationship skills including strong communication, rapport building, with strong written and verbal competency.
4. Effective negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills and the ability to manage conflict well.
5. Confident & effective communicator, able to deliver key messages and potential service impacting consequences in the event of non-payment, whilst consistently display tact and diplomacy with the ability to reasonably defend decisions where required.
6. Compliance and adherence to policy and process to ensure SARBOX controls are met, and any financial transactions are carried out under the appropriate delegation of authority.
7. Excellent organisational skills, highly motivated with the ability to prioritise, manage and collaborate with the wider virtual team to ensure that customer issues are successfully executed and b