Unite Students
Credit Controller - 12 months FTC
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The Role
We are looking for 2 people to join our Bristol Head Office as a Credit Controller on 12-month fixed term contracts, to play a key role in reducing rent arrears, supporting income performance, and delivering a great experience for our residents and guarantors.
Working across Property, Finance, and Central Operations, you'll help resolve outstanding balances, build strong relationships, and make a real impact from day one.
With a supportive team and clear opportunities to develop your credit control skills, this is a great role for someone looking to grow, make a difference, and challenge the ordinary.
What You'll Be Doing
- Handling a wide range of customer queries, including:
- Managing payments and arrears
- Handling & resolving complaints
- Finding the perfect room for prospective customers & rebookers
- Welfare signposting & escalation
- Cancellation requests
- Interacting with our customers through a variety of channels; including phone, webchat, social media, and email
- Be a positive brand ambassador, representing the business with professionalism and empathy.
- Engage with residents and guarantors through phone, SMS, email, and webchat.
- Have confident, empathetic conversations about arrears, understand individual circumstances, and agree on appropriate next steps.
- Proactively manage overdue balances, follow up on payment commitments, and support residents in getting back on track.
- Identify potential payment issues early and take action to prevent future non-payment.
- Manage and prioritize your workload based on arrears age, value, and risk.
- Keep accurate case notes, records, and systems up to date, ensuring clear visibility of activity and outcomes.
- Escalate complex or higher-risk cases when appropriate, taking ownership through to resolution.
- Work closely with colleagues across the business to achieve shared outcomes and deliver a great customer experience.
- Follow policies and procedures while consistently meeting agreed activity and performance expectations.
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What We're Looking for in You
- Customer-focused with a professional, empathetic approach.
- Strong communication, listening, and relationship-building skills.
- Confident handling inbound and outbound calls, including sensitive payment conversations.
- Accurate and detail-focused when managing data, records, and systems.
- Comfortable working with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Outlook, and Word.
- Able to prioritize workload, take ownership, and know when to escalate.
- Collaborative approach, working effectively with Property and internal teams.
- Customer service experience desirable.
- Experience with Salesforce and SharePoint desirable.
- Credit control, finance, or arrears experience would be an advantage.
What You'll Get in Return
- A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company's success.
- 25 days paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service.
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save.
- Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing, including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform, and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends.
- Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Lots of other great benefits, including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal, and more!
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About Unite Students
Founded in 1991, Unite Students is the UK's largest provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 23 leading university towns and cities, with over 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.
Instinctive inclusion
We know that to create and maintain a happy, healthy organization, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn't just what we do but who we are.
People make Unite Students
Employees, students, and neighbors all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.
Room for Everyone
We're proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we're passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.
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