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Daanish Hoosain

Customer Service Representative
Cape Town

Summary

Experienced customer service professional with a strong background in handling customer queries, complaint resolution, and financial exception management. Demonstrates expertise in live chat support, call center operations, and customer relations, with a proven ability to manage escalations and liaise across departments to ensure seamless service delivery. Skilled in administrative support, data capturing, and record management, complemented by advanced proficiency in MS Office applications. Notable achievements include creating BI reports for driver complaints and conducting CASAT data analysis to enhance operational efficiency. Adept at problem-solving and relationship-building, with a client-focused approach that drives customer satisfaction. Career goals include leveraging extensive experience to contribute to organizational success while continuously enhancing professional competencies.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Customer Service Representative

Mr D Food
03.2020 - Current
  • Handling customer queries.
  • Tracking orders.
  • Processing refund and compensation requests where necessary, and within SOP guidelines.
  • Liaising between other departments to track orders and keep customers updated on their order status.
  • Escalating to other departments to recoup.
  • Escalating urgent customer issues to the Social Media Department.
  • Escalating payment queries and checks to Mr. D Food Finance departments or CS Management to track funds for customers.

Additional task:

  • Performing POPI data extraction every week for CS, OS, and RS.
  • Conducting financial exceptions by holding the relevant party liable.
  • Conducting CASAT data analysis.

Driver complaint specialist:

August 2022 – July 2024.

  • Re-logging/logging of driver complaints escalated by CS, RS, and OS departments.
  • Creating Driver Complaint BI reports (logging complaints before the 5-day turnaround time, to recoup money from the branch).

WhatsApp Campaign Customer Service Assistant, Groceries, Takealot Now:

Sep 2024 - Current.

  • Resolving customers' queries via WhatsApp chat forum with professionalism and accuracy.
  • Refunding, blacklisting the customer profile, and tracking the customer order.
  • Resolving Pick and Pay Groceries, order queries.
  • Handling financial exceptions for Pick and Pay, and resolving Takealot Now customer queries for different order types.

Training courses I undertook during my job at Mr. D. Food:

  • Order Success and Restaurant Support Training.
  • Customer Service Introduction Training to the Workforce.
  • My-Academy courses related to customer service.
  • WhatsApp chat forum training.

Administrative Assistant

WALEED RAS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
06.2019 - 09.2019
  • Maintained the office filing system.
  • Assisted with new tenants' applications by checking that applications are completed and signed, conducting credit checks, and ensuring proper documentation is received from tenants.
  • Uploaded new properties and tenants to the Pay Prop system, and updating existing properties and tenants is required (including monthly statements, invoices, and reports).
  • Maintained expense records for all properties managed by WRPM.
  • Minute-taking.
  • Taking telephonic enquiries from tenants regarding maintenance issues, and enquiring about new properties available for rent.
  • Updated Tenants Profile Network (WPM) records every month, ensuring new tenants are loaded and redundant records are removed.

Training courses I completed during the internship at Waleed Ras Property Service:

  • PayProp Baseline Training.

Pay Internship

Western Cape Government
07.2016 - 03.2017
  • Registry duties (receipt and dispatching of post, receipt and filing of documents, scanning of paper-based documents into electronic form, and general maintenance of the registry).
  • Messenger services (recording and delivery of documents). General administration (record keeping, preparing meetings, taking minutes at meetings, data capturing).
  • Handling security forms and conducting access card checks for interns within the department.

Training courses I did during the paid internship programme:

  • Introduction readiness training.
  • Microsoft Office® training.
  • Introduction to Office Management.
  • Introduction to Project Management and Writing Skills.
  • Enterprise Content Management® Training.

Education

Diploma - Management Assistant

College of Cape Town

High School Diploma -

Harold Cressy High School

Skills

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Additional Information

REFERENCE:

Bongiwe Mgunculu - Team Leader

Mr. D Food (Social Media/ WhatsApp Team )

Tel: +27 (0) 78 367 7689

Sharfaa Daniel - Seller Support Specialist

Takealot

Tel: + 27 (0) 71 243 1711

Ma-eesha Innocent - Ex- Team leader

Mr. D Food (Customer Service)

Tel: +27 (0) 84 645 4967

Angus Visser - Customer Service Manager

Mr D Food

Tel: +27 (0) 60 528 8077

Peter Martin - Assistant Director: Record Management

DEDAT

+27 (0) 84 69 8619

PROOF OF QUALIFICATIONS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

Languages

3,B1,4,B2,6,C2

Timeline

Customer Service Representative

Mr D Food
03.2020 - Current

Administrative Assistant

WALEED RAS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
06.2019 - 09.2019

Pay Internship

Western Cape Government
07.2016 - 03.2017

Diploma - Management Assistant

College of Cape Town

High School Diploma -

Harold Cressy High School
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