Garnishment Lead
Key Responsibilities
1. End-to-End Operations Management
- Oversee daily processing of legal notices including garnishments, levies, liens, and subpoenas.
- Ensure notices are reviewed for:
- Accuracy
- Completeness
- Legal sufficiency
- Supervise identification of impacted customer accounts within internal systems.
- Ensure correct placement and release of account holds in line with legal requirements.
- Manage levy processing activities, including recurring holds and fund remittances.
2. Case Management & Processing Oversight
- Oversee the full case lifecycle from intake to closure, including:
- Categorisation of incoming notices
- Case creation and tracking
- Documentation and audit readiness
- Ensure timely downloading, uploading, and processing of legal notices in internal platforms.
- Monitor queue volumes, backlog, and workload allocation across the team.
3. Compliance & Risk Management
- Ensure all activities comply with applicable legal, regulatory, and client-specific requirements.
- Maintain strong audit trails, documentation standards, and control frameworks.
- Serve as escalation point for complex or high-risk legal cases.
- Continuously review and enhance SOPs in line with regulatory and process changes.
(A strong compliance mindset and attention to detail are critical for this type of work.) [Fw: BPO Su...iry – CPTO | Outlook]
4. External & Internal Stakeholder Management
- Oversee preparation and submission of responses to third parties (e.g. creditors, tax authorities, legal bodies).
- Manage communication with:
- Customers
- Government agencies
- Legal representatives / attorneys
- Ensure consistent, professional responses aligned with templates, macros, and legal guidelines.
- Act as primary escalation contact for client stakeholders.
5. Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of analysts and senior analysts.
- Conduct hiring, onboarding, and training of new team members.
- Set performance targets aligned to SLAs and quality metrics.
- Drive a culture of accuracy, accountability, and compliance.
6. Process Efficiency & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve:
- Processing efficiency
- Automation and workflow optimisation
- Standardisation across case handling
- Enhance templates, macros, and communication frameworks.
- Support scaling of operations (e.g. onboarding additional team members or expanding scope).
Key Requirements
Experience
- 5–8+ years’ experience in operations, ideally within:
- Legal processing
- Payroll/garnishments
- Banking or financial services operations
- BPO/shared services environments
- Proven experience managing teams in a high-volume, process-driven environment.
Core Skills
- Strong understanding of legal notice processing (garnishments, levies, subpoenas, liens)
- Excellent attention to detail and risk awareness
- Experience managing SLAs, KPIs, and operational performance
- Strong stakeholder and communication skills
- Ability to manage sensitive and confidential information
- Experience with case management or workflow systems
Preferred Attributes
- Exposure to US legal / financial compliance processes
- Experience in offshore delivery models (e.g. Philippines-based teams)
- Ability to build SOPs and operational frameworks from scratch
- Background in compliance-heavy or document-intensive environments