Manager, Cash Management

About defi SOLUTIONS:

defi SOLUTIONS is a loan origination technology, servicing and analytics solutions company for the auto industry. defi SOLUTIONS partners with captives, banks, credit unions, and finance companies of all types and sizes to allow lenders to focus and transform their operations. The company’s comprehensive suite of originations, servicing, and analytics solutions together with technology-enabled processing services creates a flexible, configurable, and scalable platform that addresses lenders and borrowers ever-evolving needs. defi SOLUTIONS combines the expertise of defi SOLUTIONS and the former Sagent Auto Lending with the backing of Warburg Pincus, Bain Capital Ventures and Fiserv.

The most successful managers at defi build their team to have a core quality foundation to deliver quality that WOW’s our client and their customer. They use the tools available to deliver strong performance management to exceed client service levels 95% of the time. They have a strong quality focus and can effectively manage their department using all of ISO9001:2015 standards. This role has multiple career paths and is for people who are looking to build a career in Operations management or Account management. We are looking for people who want to be promoted into something more in the next 12-24 mos.

Position Purpose:

This position is responsible for a call center team of lease consultants that processes the lease end associated with the auto lease business.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Enhance productivity and streamline processing to achieve at least 10% improvement year over year.
• Take ownership of new and existing client scope of services and deliver a level of service quality that exceeds our clients expectations as measured by achieving an 85% on client survey.
• Hire and retain top talent to achieve less than 15% voluntary attrition rate. Develop and manage talent and have a production ready successor. Ensure your team is engaged and doing their best for the business
• Demonstrate leadership and self-sufficiency by leading client or internal projects from inception to completion with little or no supervision.
• Perform staff coaching a minimum of 30% of time as a priority of job function.
• Manage team call quality to exceed 90% based upon internal and external call reviews.
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certified or is willing to achieve certification within 15 months of hire.
• Ability to create and follow policy and procedures 100% of the time.
• Respond to client inquiries within 24 hours.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required. Business Administration or similar focus preferred.

Job Related Experience:

• Five years of demonstrated increase in responsibility with prior supervisory/ management experience required
• Previous management experience in a call center environment required
• Previous experience in a financial services/banking environment preferred
• Experience with assisting with new client launches preferred

Additional Skills/Knowledge:

• Intermediate proficiency in PC/Windows related software (e.g. MSWord Excel) required.
• Demonstrated ability/experience in team building.
• Ability to create and analyze reports.
• Strong financial/metrics based background.
• Experience in managing and implementing process redesign.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail required.
• Ability to work effectively with minor supervision.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with daily work processing deadlines.
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks/projects simultaneously.
• Excellent coaching mentoring team building skills.
• Ability to manage and participate effectively in a team atmosphere.
• Must have strong problem solving/analytical skills.
• Sales orientated self-starter with strong interpersonal and negotiating skills
• Excellent listening skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Travel Required:

• 5-10% potentially during client launches