Collections Manager

About the role

As a Collections Team Manager, you'll take the helm in our in-house collection process, steering a diverse receivables book toward success. Your mission: to maintain impeccable standards of accuracy and timeliness, driving up collection rates while ensuring every customer enjoys a top-notch experience. In addition to supporting customers, you'll play a key role in overseeing the collections process and leading a talented team, providing guidance, support, and strategic direction to the team, ensuring that all activities align with our commitment to treating customers fairly and effectively managing our receivables portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Performance Management
• Lead, motivate, and develop the Collections team to achieve operational objectives, customer outcomes, and individual performance targets.
• Set clear goals and expectations, monitor performance against KPIs, and conduct regular one-to-one meetings to provide coaching, feedback, and development support.
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on accountability, continuous improvement, customer fairness, and operational excellence.
• Identify training and development needs within the team and implement coaching plans to improve performance and capability.
• Quality Assurance & Compliance Oversight
• Conduct regular quality control reviews of customer calls, account actions, correspondence, and case management activities to ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and company standards.
• Monitor call quality, customer interactions, account notes, payment arrangements, forbearance decisions, and escalation handling to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Provide structured feedback and coaching based on quality assurance findings, identifying trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure all customer communications and account actions are documented accurately and completed in accordance with Treating Customers Fairly principles and business procedures.
• Maintain oversight of complaint handling, vulnerable customer processes, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Portfolio Management & Collections Strategy
• Conduct daily monitoring of the receivables portfolio to identify underperforming, inactive, and high-risk customers.
• Analyse customer behaviour, payment trends, and portfolio performance to identify opportunities to improve collections outcomes and reduce default risk.
• Develop and implement proactive and reactive customer engagement strategies to maximise collections performance while maintaining positive customer relationships.
• Ensure default account volumes remain within agreed budget tolerances through effective collections strategies and risk management practices.
• Data Analysis & Reporting
• Perform detailed statistical and root cause analysis to understand customer inactivity, payment performance, and collection effectiveness.
• Generate, review, and present reports on collection rates, delinquency trends, default volumes, recoveries, team performance, quality assurance outcomes, and operational KPIs.
• Use data-driven insights to identify process improvements, increase efficiencies, and support business decision-making.
• Customer & Stakeholder Management
• Engage directly with customers through telephone, email, and other communication channels to resolve complex cases and drive successful outcomes.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex customer situations, supporting team members and ensuring timely and effective resolution.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to support collections objectives.
• Debt Recovery & Agency Management
• Manage relationships with Debt Collection Agencies (DCAs), ensuring service levels, compliance requirements, and recovery KPIs are achieved.
• Monitor post write-off recovery performance and take appropriate action to maximise recoveries and improve vendor performance.
• Review agency reporting and performance metrics to identify opportunities for improved recoveries and customer outcomes.
• Process Improvement & Operational Excellence
• Continuously review collections processes, controls, and customer journeys to identify and implement improvements.
• Drive initiatives that improve operational efficiency, custome

Additional Information

At Liberis, our mission is to empower small and medium-sized businesses by removing finance as a friction to growth, delivering contextual, embedded financial solutions to support merchants at every stage of their business lifecycle. The team We are the Collections Team! A dedicated group with a clear mission: to assist customers facing financial challenges and guide them back to good standing wherever possible. With team members based across the UK, Sweden and the US, this role will join our Atlanta based team covering the entire US market. Now, we're looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Collections Team Manager to join us and take our team to the next level.

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