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ARUAVIUS SHERMAN

Sandy Springs

Summary

A multifaceted professional committed to generating new business and maintaining good relationships with clients. Meticulous and diligent professional offering years of monitoring account performance, analyzing business performance and assisting clients/stakeholders by providing resolutions to account issues, innovating processes for efficiency and interpreting data to discover patterns, trends and areas of improvement.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Customer Assistance Specialist

TMCC (Toyota Financial Services)
01.2023 - Current
  • Speak to multiple customers daily in order to partner with them and negotiate a plan of action to bring their accounts current and resolve delinquency
  • Analyze account details to educate customers on their account status, ramifications they may be facing and probing in order to discover opportunities that can be used to improve their account
  • Maintaining a high success rate of curing accounts and getting customers out of collections
  • Maintaining a high level of professionalism and communication
  • Utilizing multiple systems to effectively perform job tasks

Customer Assistance SBS and FLDP (Volunteer Experience)

01.2023 - Current
  • Assisted new hires with learning the job role and best practices to ensure success
  • Worked with the credit analysts apart of the FLDP to help give a closer look into the collections process and the accounts we see on a day-to-day basis and provided feedback on how to partner with the customers and showing how the accounts customers have could impact their experience with TFS
  • Assisted within the Training Bay of new hires in Customer Assistance where I observed live calls in a side by side setting and provided live feedback to help agents succeed
  • Participated in various focus groups within the company held to find opportunities for growth and development of better practices for clients and employees alike

OJT Coach

Bank of America
01.2023 - 05.2023
  • Created and presented lesson plans
  • Maintained awareness and implementation of proper business practices
  • Held one on one meetings to breakdown the analysis of agents' call handling abilities
  • Debriefed workday progress and managed employee concerns/suggestions
  • Maintained fluent communication with employees to better assist as well as observe changes that could be made in real time
  • Provided agents with all information at my disposal to help them become self sufficient and confident in their knowledge of their job role/responsibilities

Senior Client Advocate

Bank of America
01.2022 - 05.2023
  • Resolved team support issues with efficient approach to keep call center operating smoothly and improve customer satisfaction
  • Accepted call takeover requests from representatives who needed assistance with de escalating calls and proceeded to rectify the situation therefore increasing customer retention
  • Led banking tasks, business administration and financial decision making to ensure first class services
  • Mentored customer service agents and facilitated a nurturing environment where they excelled through encouragement and empowerment
  • Assisted agents with client facing by being available to answer questions efficiently through chat

Customer Service Representative

Bank of America
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Maintain 93% 1st call resolution and customer satisfaction rate by leveraging excellent communication and phone etiquette skills to respond to inquiries on billing and product issues from 100+ clients daily
  • Amplify brand image by maintaining professional working relationships with A-list clients and exhibiting high professionalism and etiquette when handling customer complaints and negative feedback
  • Facilitate the effortless retrieval of customer files and documents by utilizing the company's filing system to maintain and update customer files
  • Increase customer loyalty and retention by leading client education on available products/services and benefits, supporting organizational marketing efforts
  • Identify consumer behavior during interactions with bank customers to inform decision-making for management marketing strategies and enhance service delivery, achieving the highest-ranking highest customer satisfaction rates month after month

Education

BACHELOR'S DEGREE - Business Administration, Business Management, Marketing

Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA
05-2020

Skills

  • Data Analysis
  • Process Improvement
  • Complaint handling
  • Records and Information Management
  • Complaint resolution
  • Customer Service
  • Scheduling
  • Budgeting and Planning
  • Account updating
  • Client Support
  • Problem Solving
  • Time Management
  • Innovation
  • Interpersonal Skills/Negotiation

Timeline

Customer Assistance Specialist

TMCC (Toyota Financial Services)
01.2023 - Current

Customer Assistance SBS and FLDP (Volunteer Experience)

01.2023 - Current

OJT Coach

Bank of America
01.2023 - 05.2023

Senior Client Advocate

Bank of America
01.2022 - 05.2023

Customer Service Representative

Bank of America
01.2021 - 01.2022

BACHELOR'S DEGREE - Business Administration, Business Management, Marketing

Georgia Southern University
ARUAVIUS SHERMAN