Reyanka Shetty

Financial Service Representative / IFIC

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

• Good at building mutual trust, coaching and mentoring others. • Excellent at knowing what to say to make people feel included welcome and accepted. • Capable of adapting to a wide range of people and being open to different attitudes, values, and personalities. • Excellent at understanding peoples' motivations and feelings, and knowing how to motivate others to change and strong at swaying the thinking and behavior of individuals who initially disagree. • Highly skilled in striking perfect coordination with all stakeholders – client, consultant, company and team to catalyze work performance and ensure project execution within time parameters.

Experience

  • Gatestone (4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Finance Team Lead
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Supervise a team of collection agents, ensuring consistent performance and achieving departmental targets related to outstanding debt recovery.  Designed and implemented training initiatives to enhance team knowledge of debt collection processes, legal compliance, and customer service techniques.  Led the training and development of agents while overseeing the successful launches of new systems and tools, ensuring smooth integration and optimal performance.  Regularly assessed agent performance through metrics such as call handling time, recovery rate, and customer satisfaction, providing feedback and coaching for improvement.  Enforced adherence to internal policies, industry regulations, and legal requirements in all collection practices to mitigate risk and maintain a positive brand reputation.  Prepared regular reports on team performance, trends in collections, and recovery rates to inform upper management and help guide decision-making.

    • Financial Services Representative
      May 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs

      Delivered timely, efficient, and courteous service, addressing customer concerns and providing appropriate solutions or escalating issues to the appropriate department when needed.  Negotiated and reviewed payment resolutions with customers, offering hardship assistance programs and ensuring the best possible outcomes for both customers and the organization.  Acted as a personal financial advisor over the phone, responding to account inquiries and taking ownership of fiduciary responsibility to protect the creditor’s interests, while adhering to FDCPA guidelines.  Managed both inbound and outbound communications related to collections, providing professional service to new and existing customers to resolve outstanding balances.  Collaborated with team members to discuss diverse perspectives, ensuring the best possible solutions were provided for customer accounts.  Achieved an 81% decrease in overdue accounts in October 2022 by effectively utilizing payment programs, improving overall collection efficiency and customer satisfaction.  Honored as Agent of the Year at the Collections & Recovery Partner Summit 2023 for outstanding performance and contributions to the organization’s success.

  • Team Supervisor at Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
    Mar 2021 - Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

     Engage with customers and take orders with enthusiastic greeting and positive personality.  Receive and process telephone orders expeditiously to ensure customer satisfaction and timely delivery.  Support the front customers with cash and non-cash transaction.  Help build a positive and equitable work environment by promoting team effectiveness and participating in personal performance development of branch.  Making weekly report and maintaining financial goal to make sure branch operates in profit.  Ensure prepared product is accurate, reflects customer needs with courteous, and is consistent with relevant procedures of Popeyes.

  • Event Coordinator at 99 Square Events & Services LLP
    Jun 2018 - May 2020 · 2 yrs

    • Supervised preparation and management of event budgets to deliver at or below projected costs. • Hired and cross-trained staff members for various event-specific functions and assessed employees' understanding of associated processes and procedures. • Delivered prompt payment for event services, including vendors, venues, staff, and transportation providers. • Prepared the forecast of works schedule and analyzing the reasons of delay and implement remedial measures for workflow and budget improvements, resulting in 14% savings per event. • Delivered smooth training execution by coordinating seminar functions, including site selection, scheduling, marketing, reservations, materials, event management and follow-up

  • Coordinator at INTICEDE BSD Private Limited
    Apr 2017 - Jul 2017 · 4 mos

    • Conducted research, gathered information from multiple source. • Used Microsoft Word, other software tools to create documents for communications. • Developed team communications, information for meetings. • Collaborated with team members to help expand marketing channels. • Helped with planning, hosting of marketing events. • Conducted event with international client meeting their requirement, demand whereas increased sales by 12% of company. • Carried out routine & periodical inspection of various activities for managing projects & Clients. • Ensured that equipments/ materials received are in accordance with the quantity & quality requirements.