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Carla-Marie Ruakere

Point Cook,Australia

Summary

10 years of technical/administration support experience within the Merchant Servicing centre. Focus in providing merchants, commercial and institutional customers, internal staff and external stakeholders with high level service and great results.

I have strong communication skills and experience in communication with the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.

I possess strong negotiation and problem-solving skills, solid analytical thinking power, and have thorough knowledge of technical systems, products and software.

Strong technical knowledge of company products/services.

Proven multi-tasking skills within a software environment, including:

- Troubleshooting and resolution of technical errors.

- Providing merchants with updates

- Providing internal stakeholders with updates

- Escalation point for both internal and external stakeholder.

- Contributor for implementation of new processes.

I have high level business and commercial acumen with 21 years in customer service in the banking & financial services industry.

Looking to pursue a career as a Retention Specialist or similar role that offers accelerated growth and the opportunity to enhance my career.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Retention Specialist

ANZ-Worldline
Melbourne, VIC
06.2022 - Current
  • responsible for effectively handling any merchant retention enquiries and to provide holistic advice to internal and external customers to convert the opportunities.
  • responsible for providing accurate needs-based solutions, product recommendations, appropriate incentives for customers to remain with the JV, restructure of existing products if required, whilst maintaining profitable pricing structures.
  • working closely with the other team members to uncover and refer any new sales opportunities.
  • responsible for fulfilling these offers and ensuring product recommendation fulfillment is managed where required.

Merchant Solutions Specialist

ANZ Bank
Docklands, VIC
10.2021 - 06.2022

Escalation point for ALL business, commercial and institutional merchants. Directors, senior relationship managers, business banking managers and all internal stakeholders. TOLL tech services, PC Eftpos, Healthpoint, Medicare and Afterpay services.

Allocator of administration tasks:

TOLL fast track requests, Change of Ownerships, PEGA Closures

Healthpay/Medicare, Afterpay errors.

Logistics Management Telstra Conversions.

Telstra and Optus GPRS fault result logs.

Product Change - quality checker (QC)

Merchant Choice Routing activations and inquiries.

Merchant Choice Routing - Reports and quality checker (QC)

Supervisor of 7-10 weekend staff.

Merchant Service Consultant

ANZ Bank
Docklands, VIC
10.2014 - 10.2021
  • 8 years’ experience troubleshooting, installing, configuring and maintaining all ANZ-WL Merchant Services products and software.
  • Products include: Turbo 2,Turbo 2 3G, Mobile 2 (IWL25C/IWL250),Mobile Plus, Mobile Plus 3G,POS Turbo Plus, POS Turbo Plus 3G,Medi Turbo 2,Medi Mobile 2. All integrated technology devices and software. Online platforms – EPOS, Afterpay, Medicare, Healthpoint, EGATE and Cyber Source.
  • Solid experience troubleshooting terminal communications – GPRS 3G/4G (Telstra and Optus), Dial-up, IP both WIFI and Ethernet, POS Gate, Simple interface and Dual SIM communications. Integrated PC Eftpos systems.
  • Experience in all terminal and POS software releases since 2014.
  • Efficient problem solving skills - to ensure merchants experience little impact with payment facilities (eg;terminals and online)
  • Communication skills imperative to deliver complex information to a wide range of customers, internal and external stakeholders.
  • Highly customer service orientated assisting merchants with software and hardware troubleshooting.
  • Fraud prevention in advising merchant on in house processes to reduce potential fraud compromises with both card present and card not present transactions.

Education

High School Diploma -

New Plymouth Girls High School
New Plymouth, New Zealand
12.1997

Skills

  • Time management
  • Active Directory knowledge
  • Customer-oriented
  • Advanced knowledge of embedded systems
  • Project management
  • Self-starter
  • Application development
  • Cross-functional teamwork
  • Stakeholder management
  • Embedded systems development software
  • Data synchronization
  • Testing and deployment
  • Efficient data management
  • Configuration management

Referees

Raul Rodriguez
Relationship & Concierge Sales Manager

Mbl:0402664972
Email: raul.3.rodriguez@worldline.com

Cameron Bec
Transformation Manager

Mbl:0466217148
Email:camero.bec@worldline.com

Timeline

Retention Specialist

ANZ-Worldline
06.2022 - Current

Merchant Solutions Specialist

ANZ Bank
10.2021 - 06.2022

Merchant Service Consultant

ANZ Bank
10.2014 - 10.2021

High School Diploma -

New Plymouth Girls High School
Carla-Marie Ruakere