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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Languages
References
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Christine Prasad

Beaverton,OR

Summary

Dedicated and motivated professional with 18 years of experience in customer service. Experience includes interfacing with clients, business retention, sales, managing client accounts, and supervising high volume calls. Team Leader experienced in directing activities of workgroups. Develops strategies, provides training, sets goals, and obtains team feedback. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Big picture focus with excellence in communicating goals and vision to succeed. Problem solver, networker, and consensus builder.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Experience Associate Team Leader

H&R Block
Beaverton, Oregon
03.2021 - Current

Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.

  • Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response.
  • Partnered with managers to identify and capitalize on sales trends and brand initiatives.
  • Established open and professional relationships with team members to achieve quick resolutions for various issues.
  • Coached team members in customer service techniques, providing feedback and encouragement toward reaching goals.
  • Helped write employee schedules.
  • Resolved customer complaints and answered questions.
  • Ensured staff complied with Company Name quality customer service standards.
  • Participated in interviews of potential employees along with management and team leader.
  • Prepared variety of different written communications, reports and documents
  • Handled over 40 calls per day to address customer inquiries and concerns

Sr. Billing Specialist

Fiserv
Beaverton, OR
06.2019 - Current
  • Assuming ownership of billing processing assigned book of business, including contract setup, data preparation, billing, and analysis.
  • Accumulate source data from multiple sources, maintain contract rates, invoice and credit memo issuance within ERP system
  • Review and analyze client contract for proper billing; work with account management and product teams to ensure client is billed as expected
  • Researching and resolving client inquiries and issues
  • Performing invoice analysis and variance research
  • Accepting responsibility in resolving problems escalated by clients.
  • Using strong analytic skills to solve problems and make decisions based on limited precedents or guidelines
  • Generating and submitting invoices based upon established accounts receivable schedules and terms.
  • Training
  • Identified, researched and resolved billing variances to maintain system accuracy and currency
  • Acting as liaison with Clients and other departments, divisions, and organizations to research and resolve client inquires and issues.


Adjustment Specialist

Fiserv
Beaverton, OR
09.2014 - 06.2019
  • Investigate, evaluate, and process disputes/chargebacks
  • Be continuous learner due to updated network regulatory requirements and client guidelines
  • Monitor systems to detect possible fraudulent behavior related to card usage
  • Contact cardholders to investigate possible fraud
  • Deliver great customer experience with proper phone etiquette on inbound and outbound calls with clients and cardholders
  • Track and action case within timeframes based on regulatory guidelines and client requirements
  • Make recommendations to implement changes in continuous efforts to improve processes
  • Understand compliance and verification procedures to effectively process cardholder information
  • Respond to inquiries from internal and external stakeholders regarding chargeback requirements, system processing and functionality, dispute lifecycle, claim status, and data input
  • Enter data into client-specific systems to accurately record and keep track of cardholder, card, transaction, and case information
  • Training and writing procedures
  • Escalated files with significant indemnity exposure to supervisor for further investigation
  • Addressed average of 10 customer inquiries and complaints each week

Customer Service Representative

Fiserv
Beaverton, OR
10.2011 - 09.2014
  • Providing service support to both internal and external clients for a specific product or group of products, and is considered the primary liaison between the clients.
  • Defining and resolving moderately complex customer problems within the designated product lines.
  • Has full product service issue accountability, including incident reports, communication center notification, Service Point work item records, adhering to client service level agreements,
  • Monitoring liability issues and escalation to management when appropriate.
  • Providing consultative servicing in order to meet client and company objectives, and fosters positive relationships with the client and internal departments.
  • Controlling liability exposure, interprets and communicates industry standards, updating internal systems, communicates enhancements with expertise in product with specific transactions, screens and reports, in addition to possessing knowledge of product/system functionality gained through experience, research and testing.
  • Adheres to established policy and procedures
  • Primary function is to answer support tickets and assist with whatever technical issues the client are facing. To ensure success as a technical support analyst, in-depth knowledge of hardware and software systems, high-level interpersonal skills, and the ability to solve complex IT issues. Ultimately, a top-notch technical support analyst can easily identify and solve technical issues .

Member Service Representative II

Rivermark Community Credit Union
Beaverton, OR
01.2005 - 05.2009
  • Assisted members by phone with variety of transactions in efficient, accurate, confidential and professional manner. Provides service for On-Line Banking access across multiple devices.
  • Meeting and exceeding personal sales goals. Shows competency in sales, product knowledge, member solutions and work ethic .
  • Maintained accurate and current customer account data with manual forms processing and digital information updates.
  • Helped large volume of customers every day with positive attitude and focus on customer satisfaction.
  • Assist new associates with internal systems and tools.
  • Maintained updated knowledge of internal processes and industry best practices to optimize service delivery.
  • Researched and rapidly resolved client conflicts to maintain key accounts.
  • Reduced average call time 5% with optimal call control and proper use of internal knowledge bases

Supervisor

First American Credco
Portland, OR
08.1997 - 07.2004
  • Supervised team of 10 including mentoring and training on company best practices.
  • Managed client inquires including verifying credit with credit bureaus and creditors, Interviewed lenders and borrowers and recommend appropriate institution services , monitored incoming and outgoing calls ensuring customer satisfaction
  • Managing workflow of employees, creating team schedules and delegating tasks
  • Assessing work performance of their employees and identifying areas that need improvement
  • Ensuring that business goals, deadlines and performance standards are met
  • Setting goals for workers and making sure their comply with company’s plans and vision.
  • Applied strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organize workflows
  • Set overall vision and provided team leadership

Education

Associate Degree - Business

Keiser University
Fort Lauderdale, FL
10.2019

None - Dispatch

Portland Community College
Portland , OR
11.1995

Skills

  • Account management
  • Cash Handling
  • Client Service
  • Employee Evaluation
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Excellent Communication
  • Active Listening
  • Self-Motivated

Accomplishments

  • Supervised team of 15 staff members.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Documented and resolved issues .
  • Expert in Multiple Versions of SAP applications, including S/4 Hana and Fiori.
  • Expert in using Epoc Systems for Billing

Languages

Fiji
Native or Bilingual

References

  • Sammy Rana, (503) 381-6589, Previous Co-worker.
  • Cheryl Henderson, (708) 248-4406 Previous Co-Worker
  • Barbara Sullivan, (503) 409-2254, Previous Co-Worker
  • Cindy Ekstrom ,(503) 775-1821, Previous Supervisor.
  • Nikia Allen (734) 489-4399 , Co-Worker

Timeline

Experience Associate Team Leader

H&R Block
03.2021 - Current

Sr. Billing Specialist

Fiserv
06.2019 - Current

Adjustment Specialist

Fiserv
09.2014 - 06.2019

Customer Service Representative

Fiserv
10.2011 - 09.2014

Member Service Representative II

Rivermark Community Credit Union
01.2005 - 05.2009

Supervisor

First American Credco
08.1997 - 07.2004

Associate Degree - Business

Keiser University

None - Dispatch

Portland Community College
Christine Prasad