Customer Relations Specialist

Trust is the first of a new breed of banks in Singapore – digitally native and focused on delivering a delightful customer experience. You will work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment to solve new and interesting challenges each day. Together with our Trust team, you will help shape the future of our bank. As a Customer Relations Specialist, you will be able to work on and help service our customer base, learn new ways of working, and build delightful high-quality experiences for our customers. Be responsible for providing an effective and timely resolution of customer complaints across the bank. The role oversees high-volume complaint handling operations, ensuring fair customer outcomes, regulatory compliance, and adherence to service standards. In addition, the incumbent will identify systemic issues through root cause analysis, drive corrective and preventive actions, and collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to improve processes, controls, and customer experience while preventing complaint recurrence. Reporting to the Customer Relations lead, the role holder will be responsible for the following: The Role Responsibility: • Manage the end-to-end handling of customer complaints, ensuring timely, fair, and consistent resolution in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal policies. • Manage daily complaint management operations, including timely case creation, acknowledgement, investigation, escalation, and closure of high-volume complaint cases in a seamless and frictionless manner according to the relevant policies and procedures. • Ensure complaints are handled fairly, consistently, and within established service level agreements (SLAs). • Review complex or escalated complaints and recommend appropriate resolutions. • Maintain accurate and comprehensive complaint records, investigation notes, and correspondence. • Identify the root cause and route cases to relevant parties (e.g. risk, fraud, onboarding, ops) to resolve the issue feedback/complaint. • Ensure complaint handling practices comply with applicable banking regulations, consumer protection requirements, governance policy, portfolio management standards, system delivery framework and internal governance standards. • Act as the bank’s defence, and promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to require standards and processes. Role Specific Technical Competencies: Skill Target proficiency level Written and communication skills Advanced Complaints handling in a high-volume environment Core Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) • Complaint resolution within agreed turnaround times. • Quality and accuracy of complaint investigations. • Regulatory and policy compliance. • Reduction in recurring complaints. • Timely completion of corrective action plans. • Customer satisfaction and fair outcome measures. • Quality of root cause analysis and reporting. Our Ideal Candidate: • Graduate with extensive years of experience in Customer Complaints Handling, ideally in financial institutions or high growth start-ups. • Experience in root cause analysis, process improvement, and stakeholder management. • Experience in complaints handling in a high-volume environment • Good understanding of Banking and Financial products, Bank’s control framework, Governance structure, conduct risk, and consumer protection requirements preferred. If you apply for a job with Trust or submit any personal information in connection with a possible job opportunity, you agree to our privacy notice for job applicants. Come as you are! Trust is an inclusive and open-minded workplace. If you are good at what you do and care about doing a good job, that’s what we focus and want from you. So come as you are. 😊 Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Trust are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to age, gender, physical ability, race, religion or belief, family or parental status, sexuality, or any other status protected by laws or regulations. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. We encourage applicants of all ages.