Collections Specialist - with Great Benefits

You'll be interested in this Collections Specialist position if you're a natural leader driven a strong sense of accomplishment, and a focused, detail-oriented thinker with a background in accounting, finance or business administration. This short-term contract / temporary to hire Collections Specialist position is available in the Anderson, Indiana area. An experienced Collections Specialist will be able to nourish their career at a growing company in this position. If you're interested, contact Robert Half today!

Your responsibilities in this role

- Process bankruptcy filings in the correct manner when received

- Catalog all customer payments to the correct reports

- Attend to inbound and outbound collections calls and correspondence

- Comply with all rules and regulations established by the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act

- Direct all billing and reporting activities in accordance to deadlines

- Act as a company representative in upholding quality customer service and a positive company image by resolving customer account inquiries

- Locate delinquent customer accounts through various means, e.g. skip-tracing, written correspondence, phone contact, and making arrangements for payment

- Guarantee payments are processed

- Oversee and update customer files to ensure data accuracy- Prior experience working with accounting software

- Be able to effectively analyze and make decisions on customer accounts

- 2+ years of prior high volume collections experience

- AA or BS/BA in Accounting preferred

- Comprehensive knowledge of commercial collections

- Strong familiarity with Microsoft Excel

- Commercial collections experience

- Strong communication and social skills and able to receive criticism well