Job Description
Customer Service Associate
Contact Centre – Bilingual English and French – Work from home
Locations
Virtual, QC, CAN
Virtual, ON, CAN
Virtual, AB, CAN
Time Type: Full time
Job Requisition Id: R220031904
Address: VIRTUAL61 – HomeRes – QC – BMO
Job Family Group: Retail Banking Sales & Service
Language requirements for the role: French and English
Schedule: The Customer Contact Center is a 24/7 operation. This position operates between the hours of 6:30AM and 12:00AM, 7 days a week, including days, evenings, weekends and statutory holidays. Associates are scheduled for 37.5 hours per week and should be available to work one day on weekends, either Saturday or Sunday. Schedule is determined weeks in advance.
Understands customer needs and provides credit and lending-related sales and service to BMO customers or prospects. Advises customers on lending/credit strategies and products that meet their objectives. Fulfills sales and service activities for the customer in accordance with approved procedures. Identifies and makes referrals to other business groups as needed.
- Integrates marketing promotions and programs into customer conversations when appropriate.
- Probes to understand customer needs and provides advice related to personal banking and lending strategies in the best interests of the customer.
- Escalates complex or unresolved customer situations to managers as required.
- Performs any required activities to ensure customer’s requests are accurately processed.
- Maintains current knowledge of personal banking products, practices, and trends and integrates into customer conversations in a professional manner.
- Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders in order to deliver on business objectives.
- Manages all transactional outcomes of customer calls or refers to appropriate internal business groups.
- Maintains the confidentiality of customer and Bank information.
- Identifies and reports suspicious patterns of activity that are suspected to be related to money laundering.
- Adheres to regulatory and compliance requirements, including Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing reporting requirements, Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) consumer provision requirements and Privacy Act provisions.
- Completes standardized tasks under supervision.
- Performs initial problem solving within given rules/limits & escalates when required.
- Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent work experience.
- Knowledge of personal banking products.
- Knowledge of competitive marketplace and trends in product offerings.
- Knowledge of contact centre operational processes and policies.
- Knowledge of call centre technology, processes and metrics.
- Basic knowledge learned on the job.
- Verbal & written communication skills – Basic (in business environment).
Organization skills – Basic (in business environment).Collaboration & team skills – Basic (in business environment).
This position requires proficiency in a language other than French to interact, support and/or provide services to non-French speaking customers, employees and/or partners inside and/or outside the province of Quebec.