Contact Center Agents (Fixed Term Contract)

Summary

Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the planet.
We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.
We’re giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting and instant access to credit through digital devices.
We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world's most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.

Job Overview:
Engage current and potential customers to provide support, ensure customer satisfaction and retention towards the fulfilment of the strategic goal of the business at large.

Responsibilities:

• Staying informed on social media trends, innovations, and changes.
• Act as the first point of contact to customers.
• Resolve customer issues within the scope of existing service level agreements.
• Maintaining a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude toward customers at all times.
• Follow communication procedures, guidelines, and policies while resolving customers’ complaints through multiple channels.
• Handle complaints, provide appropriate solutions and alternatives within the time limits and follow up to ensure resolution.
• Acknowledging and resolving customer complaints.
• Knowing our products inside and out so that you can answer questions and resolve them.
• Keeping records of customer interactions, transactions, comments, and complaints.
• Ensure that all escalated disputes are properly reviewed and resolved within the agreed SLA according to CBN guidelines.
• Respond promptly and effectively to escalated disputes and communicate findings to customers
• Provide feedback on the efficiency of the customer impacting processes for improvement purposes.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and provide professional customer support.
• Identify and assess customers' needs to achieve satisfaction.
• Build sustainable relationships of trust through open and interactive communication
• Ensure the highest level of service standards are maintained.

Requirements:
• HND/B.Sc(MBA added advantage)
• Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in similar role.
• Excellent knowledge of social media best practices.
• Ability to effectively use a variety of social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Google+.
• ·Working knowledge of social media tools, such as HootSuite, Buffer, and Google Analytics
• Conversant with major Telephony and CRM applications used across the industry.
• Ability to deal with diverse problems using facts, judgement and discretion to resolve them.
• Have an instinct around anticipating and handling problems, crafting solutions, communicate them to clients
• Ability to probe effectively for understanding.
• Listening attentively to customers on every complaint.
• Offer customer a solution or an alternative that best meets their needs.
• Knowledge of customer service practices and principles
• An understanding of banking procedures and policies and Computer literacy
• High degree of intelligence, communication and analytical skills
• Knowledge of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act.

Benefits:
Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

• 💜A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
• 👴Pension
• 📈Career development & growth
• 😁Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• 🎁Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
• 💯Group life insurance
• 💖Medical insurance
• 🎁Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)
• ✅Perkbox
• 🏃‍♀️Goalr - employee wellness app
• 🥇Award winning L&D training
• 💒 We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule