PPL PRS Ltd
Collections & Recoveries Advisor

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Can you imagine a world without music? Neither can we.
Key Details
To collect outstanding payments on high value overdue Key Accounts whilst providing excellent customer service to licensees
- Liaise with Key Account Managers, National Account Managers and Third Party Licence Consultants in order to gain updates and resolve aged debt.
- To maintain/improve debtor days for maximum cash flow
- Prepare accounts for Enforcement/Infringement
What you will be doing
Recovering Debt
- Actively manage assigned overdue accounts. This will include;
- proactively contacting customers with outstanding invoices for licence fees
- receiving customer calls for payment or disputes
- processing card payments or setting up DD
- objection handling to ensure customers understand the need and benefits of the music licence, ensuring licence fee payment
- being aware of the impact of instalments and/or customer service quality on debtor days
- liaising with third parties regarding customer queries
- raising concerns with respect to doubtful / bad debt
- liaising with Finance Department to ensure payments are correctly and promptly applied to customer accounts
- Monitor and analyse customer accounts for non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities and provide insights to the Finance team
- Use objection handling techniques to proactively resolve any customer queries or objections. Effectively obtain evidence of music usage to support potential infringement cases
- Respond to customer queries regarding payment plan modifications and inform customers of status including rejections where necessary
- In conjunction with the Team Leader, to validate and evaluate customer debt through cost/ benefit analysis in order to decide the most appropriate strategy
- Write off bad debt within authorised threshold, ensuring it is the only option and relevant supporting documentation exists
- Prepare enforcement referrals for potential infringement investigations, assigning collection value to these where possible
- Refer customers to the Enforcement and Infringement teams through completion of the referral checklist
- Reduce the level of unresolved queries by liaising with Key Account Managers, National Account Managers and Third Party Licence Consultants
- Follow system and business processes for processing Administration or Insolvency cases
- Amendments to licence invoices and general updates to customer records
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- Educate and advise customers, positively reinforcing benefits of music to their business, while ensuring that they understand and are adhering to the contractual licensing terms and conditions
- Deliver a positive customer experience and proactively contribute to the department’s service standards and customer satisfaction results, ensuring call quality targets are consistently achieved and exceeded
- Demonstrate a positive image of the company, through developing and maintaining effective professional relationships with customers
- Work co-operatively and supportively with other teams in order to ensure the customer experience is positive
- Respond to customer queries and ensure timely resolution of complaints, pausing / stalling the dunning cycle and escalating where necessary
- Develop and maintain knowledge of core licensing processes and procedures including tariffs and Copyright Law
- Maintain accurate notes in the system
- Follow PPL PRS quality standards and guidelines


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You will have
Essential
- Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience within a phone-based customer contact team or collections / debt recovery team
- Competent numeracy skills
- Good verbal and written communications
- Clear and enthusiastic telephone manner
- Competent using Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, and Outlook
Desirable
- Experience working within a target driven commercial team
- Experience of working in a Credit or Collections team
- Intermediate Excel users
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