Keith Durham Email & Phone Number

Collections Manager

Acton, Ma

•Oversees a company’s process of retrieving money owed to them or one of their clients.•Manages the employees who collect the money.•Handles complaints or difficult calls.•Makes sure employees comply with company policies when contacting individuals and other companies to collect past due balances that they owe.•Ensures that all written correspondence complies with company policies in terms of verbiage and frequency of contact.•Keeps up with changes in state and federal laws governing debt collections and makes sure employees receive training on any changes in laws.•Makes sure the collectors on staff operate within the confines of the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) when making phone contact with individuals and companies.•Monitors call reports to make sure collectors are making enough phone contacts each day.•Identifies areas of the collection process that need improvement and implements an enhanced process that will help collectors be more effective.•Tracks the rate of success of the entire process and continues to make adjustments when necessary.•Trains new employees and holds training reviews for established employees.•Performs audits of accounts that are in the system.•Establishes quality control standards and maintains and enforces them over time.•Negotiates payment arrangements and follows up to make sure the payments are made.•Researches and locates missing information that is needed for the staff to perform their jobs at optimum levels.•Authorizes financial settlements with people who owe large debts.

Manager of Collections, Recovery, and Business Development