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NRG Energy

Generates and sells power to homes and businesses

EOP & 3rd Party Collections Specialist

Internal Audit & Controls +1Updated on Nov 14
Full-timeNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A high school diploma or equivalent is required.
  • Two to five years of experience in collections, vendor management, recovery operations, audit, or compliance is required.
  • A strong understanding of collection strategies, recovery metrics, vendor performance management, and operational controls is required.
  • Strong analytical, reporting, and operational problem-solving skills are required.
  • The role requires attention to detail and the ability to maintain accurate reporting, documentation, and issue tracking.
  • Experience supporting performance or quality assurance reviews, audits, compliance monitoring, or recovery analysis is required.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee execution of approved collection strategies across Early-Out Program and third-party agency portfolios.
  • Validate that vendor activity aligns with placement logic, allocation strategy, workflows, and business priorities.
  • Assess portfolio performance and identify opportunities to improve early-stage recovery and post-placement liquidation.
  • Support recommendations related to placement strategy, campaign effectiveness, and vendor optimization.
  • Partner with internal teams to ensure collection strategies are operationally sound and effectively executed.
  • Coordinate vendor onboarding and offboarding, including readiness checklists, training, system access, security requirements, documentation, and internal approvals.
  • Support vendor invoice validation by confirming charges align with approved rates, services, staffing, and contractual terms, and coordinate resolution of discrepancies.
  • Monitor daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly vendor performance across assigned collection portfolios.
  • Analyze key performance indicators, including contact rates, recovery rates, liquidation curves, productivity, and portfolio trends.
  • Provide performance reporting, variance analysis, insights, and recommendations to support business reviews.
  • Identify performance gaps, recovery trends, and root causes impacting vendor or portfolio results.
  • Support recovery forecasting and recommend corrective actions to improve performance.
  • Support operational and recovery audits of Early-Out Program and third-party collection agency activity.
  • Review vendor adherence to policies, procedures, regulatory requirements, and contractual obligations.
  • Validate vendor reporting, recovery results, process adherence, and operational control effectiveness.
  • Monitor quality findings, customer complaints, compliance trends, and operational risks.
  • Escalate compliance, legal, customer experience, or operational risks to appropriate internal partners.
  • Maintain oversight of operational controls related to account placements, allocations, reporting, campaign execution, and recovery processes.
  • Partner with the Vendor Relationship Specialist, Vendor Manager, Legal, Risk, Analytics, and Operations to resolve control issues and strengthen governance.
  • Support weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews with performance insights and risk-based commentary.
  • Identify governance gaps and recommend improvements to reduce risk and strengthen vendor accountability.
  • Support documentation and evidence requirements related to audits, controls, and performance reviews.
  • Recommend process, allocation, and strategy improvements to improve collection and recovery performance.
  • Support champion/challenger vendor strategies and performance optimization initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities to improve agency effectiveness, operational controls, recovery outcomes, and customer experience.
  • Support implementation of process changes, reporting enhancements, and operational improvements.
  • Partner with the Vendor Relationship Specialist to ensure identified actions are tracked, communicated, and followed through.

Desired Qualifications

  • Utility or energy industry experience is preferred.
  • Experience working with early-out and/or third-party collection agencies is preferred.
  • Omnichannel collections or digital engagement experience is preferred.
  • Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements related to collections is preferred.
  • Experience with SAP, Salesforce, Debt Next or other middleware, performance dashboards, reporting tools, or similar systems is preferred.

About the Company

NRG Energy

Generates and sells power to homes and businesses

NRG Energy generates and sells electricity to homes and businesses across North America, pairing a large retail business with its own fleet of power plants. Its retail brands, including Reliant, Direct Energy and Green Mountain Energy, sell fixed-rate and variable-rate power plans, while its Vivint unit installs and monitors smart home security systems. NRG's natural gas, coal and nuclear plants sell power into wholesale markets and supply much of the electricity its retail customers use, which cushions it against swings in wholesale prices. It earns money from monthly power bills, smart home subscriptions and wholesale power and capacity sales. NRG was founded in 1989 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1989

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