Tele Collection Agent , (Douala, Cameroon)
Sun King
The Tele-Collections Executive will work in the Corporate Risk department of Sun King, Cameroon and will work closely with the Contact Center, Operations and Sales team by following on customers to make repayment for our Pay-As-You-Go products.
We are looking for an experienced Tele-Collections Executive who would leverage on their expertise to grow our repayment and collections rate.
- Department
- Corporate Risk
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Cameroon
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Tele Collections Lead - West Africa.
What you would be expected to do
- Utilize various skip tracing techniques and collection strategies (often designed by employee) to locate right parties to negotiate payment arrangements on high collectability or value accounts.
- Negotiate payment terms and methods when right party is reached. The process often requires reviewing the account information in database, and/or asking probing questions to better know potential objections to payment.
- Overcome stalls and objections suggest money sources for debt payment. That is minimizing resistance for payments and suggest available customer-friendly payment options.
- Utilize payment options (credits cards, direct checks) and secure this information so that administrative services can process.
- Offer customers several payment options and arrange for the prompt repayment of balances.
- Negotiate settlements outside of normal guidelines, authorize credit bureaus deletions, negotiate payment arrangements over a longer span of time than normal.
- Updating the account details of customers and resolving pending customer issues.
- Escalate and file all fraud cases and follow up with efficient timelines and solutions benefiting both the company and clients
- Updating correct customer data and information during collections calls check off.
- Ensure security and data protection on all clients’ data capture during collections interactions.
- Capture customers complaints and escalate to relevant information using the available tools.
You might be a strong candidate if you
- Have a Bachelor’s Degree in Customer Service Management, or Business-related courses - Sales, Marketing
- Bilingual French & English.
- Have good communication skills with fluency in both written and spoken English
- Reside in Douala, Cameroon
- Have Fluency in both English and French (mandatory).
- Are fluent in at least one local dialect (Pidgin, Duala, Bassa, Bamileke… )
- Have good social skills.
- Have Maximum of 2 years experience in a similar role. Experience working in a call center is an added advantage.
- Have Basic Microsoft- Excel skill
What Sun King Offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.
Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.
Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.

