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About Blackwoods Australia

In Blackwoods, they provide accessible, continuous, and effective services and solutions, leveraging global sourcing capabilities and strategic partnerships with world-class brands and suppliers. Their approach aims to streamline procurement, allowing customers to order everything from a single supplier. The collaboration focuses on reducing the total cost of ownership through product range rationalization, vendor consolidation, spend aggregation, enhanced inventory control, and leveraging a wide-reaching national and global network for reliable delivery.

Your role

This role will see you on the phone with customers to ensure all monies owing are receipted in a timely manner.

You will be responsible for:

• Allocations of funds to debtor accounts
• Assisting customers via phone calls and emails with fast turnarounds
• Debt management with small to large corporate customers
• Upload invoices to portals/systems if needed
• Develop positive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Account Maintenance
• Dispute Resolution
• Other general administrative duties

Benefits

To ensure employees feel valued, supported, and celebrated, Blackwoods provides a range of employee benefits including:

• Flexible and hybrid work arrangements
• Competitive salary and incentives
• A range of diversity and well-being initiatives
• Team events, celebrations, and development opportunities
• Team member discounts on Wesfarmers products
• Discounted offers from over 300 corporate partners

Career progression

Each year, Blackwoods actively recruits graduates for both full-time and part-time internships and can offer permanent positions to its graduates, providing a structured development plan over the initial two years. With dedicated support from managers, sponsors, and graduate advisors, Blackwoods is committed to fostering professional growth. The comprehensive approach includes mentorship from senior leaders, on-the-job training, practical experience, career development plans, and regular professional development sessions, offering new graduates a well-rounded foundation for a successful career within the collaborative and dynamic business environment.

Work-life balance

As part of their commitment to Balance and Inclusion, Blackwoods supports flexible work arrangements, they recognise that team members are happiest and most productive when they are able to effectively balance their home and work lives, and ensure they have the flexibility to work when and where they choose is a key part of Blackwoods’ commitment to a happy workforce. They are also entitled to a series of anonymous free counselling or life coaching sessions with a trained psychiatrist. The services their Employee Assistance Program provides include Wellbeing Coaching, Financial Coaching, Legal Advice, Nutrition/ Diet coaching and I-Care, and emotional and practical support services for Indigenous employees. Leaders and managers are also offered a range of specialist EAP services.

Company culture

At Blackwoods, diversity is an integral part of the organization's history, culture, and identity, creating an inclusive workplace that encourages everyone to be authentic. The active promotion of equal opportunities not only enhances business outcomes, innovation, and productivity but also reflects our commitment to supporting gender equality through initiatives like workplace flexibility and parental leave policies.

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About you

To be successful, you will have:

• Exceptional time management skills and attention to detail
• Great verbal and written communication skills that allow you to achieve business objectives whilst working autonomously and as a part of a team
• Positive attitude and a willingness to learn, a collaborative team player
• Previous experience with credit collections/reconciliations would be advantageous but not essential
• Computer literacy – Experience in MS Suite specifically Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Ability to handle high volumes and work to multiple competing deadlines

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• linkedin.com
• blackwoods.com.au/about-us/working-at-blackwoods