Job Information
Matanuska Telecom Association Customer and Collection Associate (Relief) in Palmer, Alaska
[We are searching for an experienced Customer and Collections Associate (Relief) at our Palmer HQ facility.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
[Protects MTA revenues and maintains cash flows by providing excellence customer experience in taking payments and working with members on payment arrangements. Ensures timely action on delinquent accounts in order to reduce risk while treating members fairly and equitably. Ensures excellent customer experience with Billing by providing Service Order Quality Assurance. Works with customers on non-sales activities such as records only service orders, billing audits service orders, and customer documentation for discounting.]{segoe="" ui",="" arial,="" sans-serif"=""}]{segoe="" ui",="" arial,="" sans-serif"=""}
Illustrative Tasks:
Responds to and researches customer payment or credit inquiries and complaints. Corrects Misapplied payments. Processes and create Care orders for customer credits.
Stays current and knowledgeable of all MTA products and services, bankruptcy procedures, payment and collection guidelines, and other procedures/regulations/ processes as necessary.
Performs Service Order quality assurance to ensure service order accuracy prior to final posting to billing. Processes residential service orders for posting. Assists with correction of non-posted internet usage and pre-billing control reports. Assists with correction of RDM equipment service order issues. Assists with revenue assurance clean- up projects.
Processes AutoDialer to make outgoing calls to prompt collections on delinquent accounts. Takes payments over the phone and in person at designated retail location(s). Negotiates payment arrangements if needed under policy guidelines. Processes reports associated with AutoDialer.
Processes accounts for Temp Disconnect. Takes payments and reconnects accounts with payment of past due in full or payment plan. Negotiates payment arrangements if needed under policy guidelines. Runs reports associated with Suspends. Processes fees for reconnects. Provides Business Temp exempt list to Business QA to collect.
Processes accounts for Broken Payment Plan suspends. Takes payments and reconnects accounts under policy guidelines. Runs reports associated with BPPs.
Processes Permanent Disconnect service orders for those accounts that meet Perm Disconnect for non-pay criteria. Provides Business perm data to the Business QA Specialist.
Answers Collections ACD phone system and interfaces with customers directly to take payments, discuss billing issues, help with Ebill, account reconciliations, NSF checks, payment plans, bad debt and bankruptcies.
Processes Credit Refunds for those disconnected accounts with a credit balance that meets criteria. Transfers credits to associated statements and processes small balance write offs.
Processes Collections Letters on accounts that have been written off to Bad Debt, reviewing the accounts for term of disconnect, transfers to active statements, small balance write off, or any unbilled NRCs.
Processing Accounts to send to Cornerstone Collection Agency. Updating the Cornerstone database with payment information for accounts with Bad Debt payments taken at MTA. Researching and submitting information to Cornerstone on disputed accounts.
Updates customer records such as but not limited to spelling errors, address changes, update cvc, add adult with access, completing field technician/billable labor charges, return device equipment, and contact information at the customer request.
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