Warranty Administrator 1 Feb 2015 - Current COMPANY: Imperial Ford & Mazda Kempton Park - Automotive Industry RESPONSIBILITIES Main priorities: • Warranty claims • Preparation and submission of warranty claims including credit control • Credit control (warranty claims payments) • Able to assess, troubleshoot and adjudicate (report) all claim related issues • Balance warranty claims • Invoice Ford for claims invoices • Control claim status on Warranty system • Return faulty parts to Factory weekly • Communicating problem causes with factory • liaison with all warranty related issues • Build excellent relationships with factory staff. • Strong in admin and very accurate • The ability to work co-operatively with others, to be a member of a team and work towards the purpose of a common goal • The ability to complete repetitive tasks with patience, perseverance, and tolerance and within required standards. • The ability to take responsibility for the achievements of standards of service that comply with the highest expectations of the clients by making client and their needs a primary focus of one's actions and developing and sustaining productive client relationships • The ability to work co-operatively with others, to be a member of a team and work towards the purpose of a common goal. OTHER: Relieving Service Manager while on leave – managing frontline staff, assisting with customer queries and complaints, attending manager’s meetings. • Assisting Financial Manager with retrieving moneys from Debtors • Requesting documentation from Document Warehouse • Sending invoices to be archived by Document Warehouse • Checking WORK IN PROGRESS report on daily/weekly basis Service Advisor - May 2014 - Feb 2015 COMPANY: Imperial Ford & Mazda Kempton Park Automotive Industry Initiates automotive services and repairs by ascertaining performance problems and services requested; verifying warranty and service contract coverage; developing estimates; writing repair orders; maintaining customer rapport and records. • Ascertains automotive problems and services by listening to customer's description of symptoms; clarifying description of problems; checking vehicle maintenance records; examining service schedules. • Verifies warranty and service contract coverage by examining records and papers; explaining provisions and exclusions. • Develops estimates by costing materials, supplies, and labour; calculating customer's payment, including deductibles. • Prepares repair orders (RO) by describing symptoms, problems, and causes discovered, as well as repairs and services required; obtaining approval signatures; entering RO into service database system. • Maintains customer rapport by explaining estimates and expected return of vehicle; obtaining customer's approval of estimates; obtaining and providing contact telephone numbers; answering questions and concerns; arranging towing and temporary transportation. • Maintains automotive records by recording problems • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities • Enhances organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. • Extras: o Creating job cards for walk-in customers / towed in vehicles o Updated customers of vehicle statuses o Updating customer details on Automate and Servis2 database o Releasing completed vehicles to customers o Accepting payment from customer's before releasing vehicles o Assisting with warranty claims where necessary o Assisting with vehicle bookings on CMS booking system o Costing of job cards when work completed Programmes: Automate, Servis2, PTS, Dealer communication Warranty Administrator 17 April 2012 - May 2014 COMPANY: Imperial Ford & Mazda Kempton Park - Automotive Industry RESPONSIBILITIES Main priorities: • Warranty claims • Preparation and submission of warranty claims including credit control • Credit control (warranty claims payments) • Able to assess, troubleshoot and adjudicate (report) all claim related issues • Balance warranty claims • Invoice Ford for claims invoices • Control claim status on Warranty system • Return faulty parts to Factory weekly • Communicating problem causes with factory • liaison with all warranty related issues • Build excellent relationships with factory staff. • Strong in admin and very accurate • The ability to work co-operatively with others, to be a member of a team and work towards the purpose of a common goal • The ability to complete repetitive tasks with patience, perseverance, and tolerance and within required standards. • The ability to take responsibility for the achievements of standards of service that comply with the highest expectations of the clients by making client and their needs a primary focus of one's actions and developing and sustaining productive client relationships • The ability to work co-operatively with others, to be a member of a team and work towards the purpose of a common goal. Costing Clerk / Service Reception 16 February 2010 -17 April 2012 (Promoted to Warranty Admin) COMPANY: Imperial Ford & Mazda Kempton Park - Automotive Industry Main priorities: • Taking down bookings telephonically & attending to customers @ service reception • Creating job cards for all vehicles booked for the following day • Assisting Service advisors with receiving vehicles in mornings • Assisting Service advisors with quotations to customers for repairs • Phoning lease companies for authority on fleet vehicle repairs • Preparing quotations to fleet companies for repairs on fleet vehicles • Obtaining authority for services from Servis2 system • Communicating repairs authorised through to technicians • Invoicing of job cards when all work has been completed • Assisting debtors with account queries from fleet companies • Assisting with invoice/payment reconciliations