Centrica • United Kingdom

Senior Credit & Debt Agent

Employment type:  Full time

Remote-first

A little flex time

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Salary - £29,938.00 per annum

Shift Pattern - This is a permanent role, working 8.45 to 17:00 Monday to Friday.

This role is based in our Leicester office, you must be able to commit to attending the Leicester office a minimum of twice monthly or as needed to fulfil the requirements of the role.

Debt Operations is an amazing team, we work together as one big family to make sure everyone feels welcome and supported. With all of the determination, drive and ambition to deliver the right outcomes we pride ourselves on the success we achieve as a group. Always making sure everyone has the tools and support they need to feel part of the team.

We know talking about money can be difficult and working with customers who have debt even harder. But working with business customers, they understand the importance of maintaining good cash flow and you will play an important part in reducing the impact of debt to our business.

On a day to day basis, you’ll be speaking to professionals from organisations to negotiate effective outcomes to outstanding debt balances. It’s not always as straightforward as we would like it to be and you will need to have great problem-solving skills, with an eye for detail and the ability to have a clear and factual conversation, whilst being resilient to overcoming barriers to payment.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a portfolio of business customers with debt balances.
  • Own customer relationship through to resolution.
  • Be proactive, think on your feet, being creative to generate bespoke solutions tailored to the individual customer and account, within the collections policy.
  • Manage internal relationships and escalations based on debt and business risk.
  • Exceptional problem solving and analytical stills.

Experience

  • Debt Management experience an advantage, but not essential.
  • Working in a customer service environment, delivering suitable business and customer outcomes.
  • Demonstrate experience in identifying opportunities for process improvement to prevent accumulation of debt.
  • Working from internal systems and tools to retrieve information and problem solve.
  • Have the ability to negotiate and use commercial thinking to balance the right outcomes for both our business and customers.
  • Ability to understand financial balances to validate debt position to ensure payment and articulate both verbally and in writing.
  • Effective time management and prioritisation skills to balance the debt in your ownership.
  • Strong networking skills to co-ordinate internal teams to fix accounts preventing collection.

As part of our selection process to find the best people to join our team, when you apply for this role you will be asked to complete an online mandatory situational judgement exercise. This is to help us assess your suitability in terms of drive and capability for the demands of the role.

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!


PLEASE APPLY ONLINE by hitting the 'Apply' button.

Applications will ONLY be accepted via the ‘Apply’ button.

This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.

Company benefits

Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Enhanced sick days
Flexible working week
Enhanced sick pay
Gym membership
Health insurance
Mental health platform access
Compassionate leave
Dental coverage
Fertility treatment leave
Season ticket loan
Buy or sell annual leave
Optional unpaid leave
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Carer’s leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Cycle to work scheme
Pension match/increase
Equity packages
Life insurance
Annual pay rises
Share options
Financial coaching
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Company car
Location
96%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
92%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
82%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
79%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
83%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
88%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
80%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
82%
Employees feel like the company culture is brilliantly inclusive and equitable
Culture
84%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
85%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
72%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Centrica

Company employees

20,000

Gender diversity (male:female)

68:32

Office locations

Windsor, London, Cardiff, Leicester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Dublin, Stockport, Staines, Hampton, Aberdeen, Barrow, Hull

Hiring Countries

Belgium

Denmark

Ireland

United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

2nd – Large companies

2nd – Large companies

Flexa100 2024
3rd – Consumer Goods

3rd – Consumer Goods

Industry awards 2023

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