Claude Pather, Relationship Manager / Account Manager / Account Executive

Claude Pather

Relationship Manager / Account Manager / Account Executive

Momentum

Location
South Africa
Education
Diploma, Wealth Management
Experience
25 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 2 Months

Relationship Manager / Account Manager / Account Executive at Momentum
  • South Africa
  • My current job since June 2004

• Maintaining exceptional relationships with clients and corporate entities by providing outstanding customer service.
• Conducting Presentations to Internal and External clients
• Conducting Corporate Client and Broker Training
• Written and verbal communication at both Executive and Member Level.
• Developing and executing of business strategies aligned to meet client’s requirements as well as achieving optimal organizational objectives.
• Delivering excellent customer service by responding swiftly to queries and concerns from clients
• Conducting Broker Accreditation
• External & Internal Consulting of Clients
• Reconcile billing statements
Retention of existing clients and corporate entities.
• Ensuring credibility with clients by maintaining detailed knowledge of Industry Legislation and market conditions.
• Educating the clients/groups in advance of the benefits offered through power point presentations followed by a question answer sessions thereby reducing the volumes of the queries.
• Maintains a courteous and effective relationship with clients, co-workers, and other business contacts.

Internal Service Consultant at Momentum
  • South Africa
  • May 2003 to June 2004

• My Key role was to provide administrative support to the Account Managers ( Account Executives), support to all brokers and Employers such as Human Resource Contact and Payroll Departments
• Managing the team through the distribution of work, coaching, and constant feedback, ensuring that Service Level Agreements are achieved at all times.
• Responsible for overall administration of the back office.
• Responsible for providing clients with new business quotations.
• Liasing extremely closely with brokers and Corporate client, ensuring a pro-active approach and that the customer satisfaction is met at all times.
• Responsible and ensuring claims are paid timeously and accurately.
• Scrutiny of applications received from different sources, to ensure the application is filled up correctly and all relevant documents submitted which are in accordance with the standard agreed scheme requirements.
• Maintain ongoing communication/relationship with existing customers in order to solve queries
and provide an efficient service.

Debtors Control Clerk at Momentum
  • South Africa
  • November 2001 to May 2003

.• My key role was to liase with Companies for Debt Control and recovery of all outstanding debt.
• Responsible for reconciliation of administered fund premiums, surcharges and savings to statement balance.
• Investigate variances & discrepancies
• Liaise directly with companies vai Brokers and Payroll Departments to resolve reconciliation discrepancies
• Process necessary adjustments and allocation of premiums received.
• Assist company to reconcile
• Educate company to work according to premium rates and rules
• Ensure that the rules of the fund are applied consistently
• Allocation of monies received from Companies and groups
• Cheque requisitions
• Monitoring the all major client portfolios, attending to all escalations, resolving issues in a timely and efficient manner.
• Loading on members and Corporate Schemes Banking Details
• Assisting in managing work queues, meeting targets on a daily, monthly and weekly basis.
• Handling customer calls, queries & complaints.Co-ordinationg between the team members and the customers. Stabilising the process and ensuring the smooth flow of the process.

Membership Clerk at Momentum
  • South Africa
  • June 2000 to October 2001

• My key role was to process applications forms from members, Brokers and Corporate Clients and to deal with any membership changes, queries and maintenance of the membership data base.
• Answer client queries telephonically or written responses.
• Maintenance and management of the membership data-base.
• Preparation of new corporate Client take on by ensuring correct premium tables, statement type, broker details and auto pay indicators are pre-loaded on the data base
• Reinstatement of Group membership
• Advise/Educate groups and members on plan options and accumulator funds.
• Liaise with other departments regarding the acceptance of new business, terminations
Assist with the training of junior clerks
• Performed quality assurance checks on new business applications for the membership team, ensuring optimal service levels were reached and maintained at all times.

Call Centre Agent at Momentum
  • South Africa
  • February 1999 to June 2000

• My key role was to handle all customer enquiries timeously and accurately
• To Answer and resolve customer related queries telephonically via an inbound Call Centre
• To proactively develop sound customer relations
• To provide solutions to customer needs by giving a high priority to customer satisfaction.
• To efficiently achieve telephone service targets
• Always maintain a sound knowledge of Scheme Rules, procedures and systems.
• Maintain a good working relationship with other departments.
• Maintain ongoing communication/relationship with existing customers in order to solve queries and provide an efficient service.

Education

Diploma, Wealth Management
  • at Inseta
  • June 2011

Obtained Industry Qualification for Health and Wealth Management via Inseta

Diploma, Presentations Skills
  • at Toast Masters International
  • June 2003

Awarded certificate for Speech and presentation skills for Toastmasters international

Diploma, Accounting
  • at University of Natal
  • June 2001

Completed Diploma in Accounting via University of Natal, South Africa

High school or equivalent, Matric
  • at Arena Park Secondary School
  • November 1997

Completed Matric and High School in 1997

Specialties & Skills

Client Relationship Building
Business Relationship Management
Sales Presentations
Presentation Skills
Relationship Management
Administrative Skills
Written and Oratory Skills
Windows and MS Office

Languages

English
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