Customer Service & Support Representative

Liberty Tax Service Inc

Virginia Beach, VA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Calendar Management, Communication Skills, Computer Skills, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Customer Service Management, Customer Support/Service, Data Entry, Diversity, Establish Priorities, High School Diploma, Interpersonal Skills, Loans, Mail Processing, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Operating System, Organizational Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Retail, Small Business, Tax Accounting, Tax Returns, Telephone Skills, Time Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Virginia Beach, VA
POSTED
3 days ago

Position Title: Customer Service & Support Representative

Department: WeFile Administration - Corporate

Status: Full-Time

Reports to: Customer Service Support Supervisor

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Why Liberty Tax?

We are the third-leading tax preparation service for individuals and small businesses, founded in 1997. Operating through a franchise model with 2,500+ retail branches and 12,000+ tax professionals across the United States and Canada, our services include various tax preparation options, such as online tax filing, tax prep, loans, assistance with audits, and various other services.

Founded in 1997, we are the third-leading tax preparation service for individuals and small businesses, operating through a franchise model with locations across the United States and Canada. Our comprehensive range of services includes various tax preparation options like online tax filing, tax prep, loans, assistance with audits, and various other offerings.

Believe in our mission! The Liberty Tax mission is to be trusted locally and respected nationally as the best choice for professional tax services. In keeping with that mission,

Our Culture:

  • Fun, awesome, business-casual environment, with volunteer opportunities, and employee recognition
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Opportunities for career advancement within the company.

Position Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks

  • Take customer calls - provide accurate, satisfactory answers to their queries and concerns
  • De-escalate issues involving dissatisfied customers, offer patient assistance and support
  • Call clients and potential customers and aid in scheduling appointments
  • Review client accounts - provide updates and information about their tax return
  • Responding to all client inquiries in a polite, professional, and timely manner
  • Place outbound calls
  • Document customer comments and feedback in the appropriate systems
  • Expresses initial greeting at the front desk, as needed
  • Answers and transfers phone calls
  • Data entry
  • Internal mail and package distribution
  • Other duties as assigned

Position Qualifications

  • Strong verbal and written communication, interpersonal and organization skills
  • Interpersonal skills to create a pleasant experience for all customers, such as being personable and attentive
  • Comfortable working in fast paced environment
  • Verbal written communication skills to interact clearly with clients, vendors, and other employees
  • Time management skills to prioritize and complete task daily
  • A patient and empathetic attitude
  • Adaptability and Flexibility in a change of pace work environment
  • Computer literacy - Working knowledge of Windows Professional and Microsoft Office Suites
  • Phone experience, including the ability to handle multi-dimensional phone systems
  • Previous experience in a fast-paced, highly structured environment
  • Ability to work both independently and within a team
  • Bilingual in Spanish is preferred, not required
  • Flexible to work nights and weekends as necessary
  • Minimum of a high school diploma or a GED

Physical Demands and Work Environment

  • Position requires working at a desk at the corporate office for periods of time up to eight hours daily.
  • Will require working weekends and some Holidays

Employee Acknowledgement

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions. While this list is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, Liberty Tax Service reserves the right to revise the functions and duties of the job or to require that additional or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (i.e. emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, or technological developments).

Liberty Tax Service is an equal opportunity employer.

About the Company

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Liberty Tax Service Inc

Liberty Tax Service® is the fastest growing international income tax service ever! Why? Liberty's growing brand name awareness in the tax industry is escalating due to an experienced management team and headquarters staff with over 600 combined years of tax, franchise, technical, marketing, and management experience. Many have worked previously for other competing tax franchisors. In addition, the company's proven operating system has the flexibility to adapt to constant changes in the tax industry.

Liberty's founder and CEO, John Hewitt, has a nationally recognized name in the tax and accounting world. He is a veteran of over 42 tax seasons, the founder of two top tax preparation firms, and a former H&R Block regional director. Accounting Today magazine has yearly named him one of the accounting profession's top 100 most influential people ten times.

Our motto at Liberty is: happy, successful franchisees.

We know that in order to achieve that, we must have happy, successful employees. We are passionate about our employees and we're constantly striving to build and maintain an engaging, productive, fun corporate culture with new incentives, fresh ideas and innovative ways to deliver superlative service to our franchisees. Employee satisfaction is evident through Liberty's low turnover rate, and even more so, through the number of employees who refer friends and family to work at Liberty Tax.

We offer our employees a rewarding job experience with benefits such as 401(k) company match, flex plan health benefits and free tax preparation. Principles

• Create raving fans!
• Be honest, show respect and have integrity
• Monitor results not activities
• Mistakes are a wise persons' education
• Challenge ourselves, challenge each other, break boundaries
• Give loyalty - Get loyalty
• Communication, Communication, Communication
• Attitude is a matter of choice - you make the right choice.
• Enjoy the journey - do it with pride!
• Contribute to the Team
COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Accounting and Auditing Services
FOUNDED
1997
WEBSITE
https://www.libertytax.com/