Mahmoud Saeed, Collections team lead

Mahmoud Saeed

Collections team lead

Future Group Translation services

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Geophysics
Experience
6 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :6 years, 7 Months

Collections team lead at Future Group Translation services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since May 2023

• Overseeing staff members and ensuring the accurate and timely invoicing of customers.
• Setting payment collection goals and targets for the department.
• Creating and implementing a strategy to improve the collection of outstanding credit.
• Implementing collection policies and procedures to avoid excessive outstanding credit.
• Ensuring that the company policy on recoveries is followed and that it is in line with state and federal regulations.
• Implementing deadlines for invoicing and payment collection.
• Negotiating with customers in cases when non-payment occurs.
• Preparing monthly feedback reports on payment collections.
• Remaining informed of any legislative procedural training regarding debt collection.
• Training and mentoring staff members in the collections department.

collection officer at Future-Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since February 2022

Monitoring accounts to identify overdue payments
Finding and contacting debtors to arrange debt payoffs
Keeping accurate records and reporting on collection activity
Monitor accounts to identify outstanding debts
Investigate historical data for each debt or bill
Coordinate with all parties inside and outside the organization to solve all kinds of customer’s problems
Find and contact clients to ask about their overdue payments
Revisit these calls from time to time to follow up the uncollected amounts
Take actions to encourage timely debt payments
Process payments and refunds
Resolve billing and customer credit issues
Resolve all kinds of obstacles that cause a problem that prevents the customer to pay his / her overdue
Responsible to travel to field locations when needed to conduct collection audits, provide education, follow solving problems on field, conduct and coordinate with teams, and development of field personnel.
Update account status records and collection efforts
Report on collection activity and accounts receivable status

Collections specialists at FlairsTech
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2022 to June 2023

• Responsible for running payments on all overdue accounts.
• Contacting clients with high overdue amounts with calls and emails.
• Contacting clients with lower amounts with only emails.
• Sending reminder emails and faxes to those clients who pass the overdue dates.
• Arrange and schedule payment plans.
• Communicate with other departments for promotions or discounts for old invoices in case of Bad debts.
• Running suspension checks and making sure to suspend accounts that have not paid with no valid reason.
• Running closure on accounts that we did not receive any updates regarding any payment plan option.
• Reporting directly to the AR section head for all the reports and checking the aging reports.
• Responsible for suspending and canceling accounts that are not adhering to payment terms.

Customer service Representative at Teleperformance
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2018 to September 2022

attracts potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information about other products and services. Process orders, prepare correspondences and fulfill customer needs to ensure customer satisfaction.
Typically reports to a supervisor or manager. The target is to ensure excellent service standards and maintain high customer satisfaction.

Open and maintain customer accounts by recording account information

Resolve product or service problems by clarifying the customer's complaint; determining the cause of the problem; selecting and explaining the best solution to solve the problem; expediting correction or adjustment; following up to ensure resolution

Maintain financial accounts by processing customer adjustments

Recommend potential products or services to management by collecting customer information and analyzing customer needs

Prepare product or service reports by collecting and analyzing customer information

Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Manage large amounts of incoming calls

Generate sales leads

Identify and assess customers’ needs to achieve satisfaction

Build sustainable relationships of trust through open and interactive communication

Provide accurate, valid and complete information by using the right methods/tools

Meet personal/team sales targets and call handling quotas

Handle complaints, provide appropriate solutions and alternatives within the time limits and follow up to ensure
resolution

Keep records of customer interactions, process customer accounts and file documents

Follow communication procedures, guidelines and policies

Go the extra mile to engage customers

Resolve customer complaints via phone, email, mail or social media

Use telephones to reach out to customers and verify account information

Greet customers warmly and ascertain problem or reason for calling

Cancel or upgrade accounts

Assist with placement of orders, refunds, or exchanges

Advise on company information

Take payment information and other pertinent information such as addresses and phone numbers

Place or cancel orders

Answer questions about warranties or terms of sale

Act as the company gatekeeper

Suggest solutions when a product malfunctions

Handle product recalls

Attempt to persuade customer to reconsider cancellation

Inform customer of deals and promotions

Sell products and services

Utilize computer technology to handle high call volumes

Work with customer service manager to ensure proper customer service is being delivered

Close out or open call records

Compile reports on overall customer satisfaction

Read from scripts

Handle changes in policies or renewals

Resolve customer complaints via phone, email, mail or social media

Customer Service Advisor at Irish account at Vodafone
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2016 to November 2016

I got the chance to work in such a great company like Vodafone.
I was working as a customer service advisor at the Irish account at the Bill Pay department.
I liked the environmental their, i met amazing people, built wonderful friendships their and i also gained new skills and improved these that i already have.
I was and still proud that one day i was part of this great organization

Education

Bachelor's degree, Geophysics
  • at Geophysics Deparment, Science college, Cairo university
  • June 2016

I got B+ degree at the college At this department we study everything related to the subsurface and how to read it from the surface. we anticipate the presence of Oil, Water, treasures and bombs at any area through some work and investigations. At this department we learn how to be friendly with the environment and not to damage anything at the nature through seismic and other ways

Specialties & Skills

Petroleum
Human Resources
Environmental Science
Geophysics
Structural Geology
ACADEMIC
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
COREL DRAW
MICROSOFT EXCEL
MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
MICROSOFT WORD
Management
students
teaching
team management
teamwork
language teaching
research
writing
planning
team leadership
problem solving
negotiation
payments
accounting
time management
customer service
marketing
outbound
operation
analysis
Corporate Credit
Reconciliation
Risk Management
Administration
Microsoft Office
Collections
Debt Collection

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
French
Beginner
Spanish
Beginner
Tagalog
Beginner
German
Intermediate

Memberships

Resala NGO
  • عضو قوافل خارجيه
  • January 2010
معا
  • عضو في معا 22
  • February 2011
HR member at Infinty student chapter
  • HR&D member
  • January 2014
SEG Cairo uiversity
  • HR&D member
  • January 2012
SEG Cairo uiversity
  • Ex-PR member
  • January 2011
SPE Cairo university
  • Exchange project member
  • January 2014

Training and Certifications

EGPC Training for geophysics fields (Training)
Training Institute:
EGPC
Date Attended:
August 2014
Duration:
112 hours
Geophysical training (Training)
Training Institute:
Shlumberger Petroleum company
Date Attended:
August 2014
Duration:
112 hours
Geophysical training (Training)
Training Institute:
Agiba
Date Attended:
July 2015
Duration:
112 hours
Geophysical training (Training)
Training Institute:
Zeitco Petroleum company
Date Attended:
July 2013
Duration:
112 hours

Hobbies

  • Photographer
    I like to take pictures to save any amazing moment and memory i took pictures for the college trip and many conferences and events for the students chapter i was part of
  • Gym
    I was able to loose weight and raise my muscle percentage
  • online learing
    I took courses online like English and Spanish on Dulingo site I took HR courses on Coursera and Alison site I took a geophysical course on the MIT online site
  • Football
    I am an amateur for playing football
  • biking
    Trying to keep up with my health and enhance my life style
  • Travelling and site seeing
    i like to visit new places and know our heritage and our history to be able to talk with others about how great our history is
  • Serving the internet
  • Reading
    I read many novels and books and that made me gain a great experience in such a way to know how to act with many people