NCBA
Banking + 2 more
Description
Job Specifications
Academic:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Business Management: Accounting Economics, Commerce, and Finance or related fields
Professional:
- Qualifications in Credit Risk Management, Product Development, Project Management, Treasury Management and related fields will be an added advantage.
Desired work experience:
- Work experience of 8 years in Collections across Unsecured and/or Business Loans in a highly digitized environment
- Experience in relevant lending products, collections systems, and collections processes
- Sufficient knowledge and experience of the digital business operations and processes
- Ability to provide balanced perspective between business expediency and risk & control
- Ability to communicate effectively and lead a Unit level team (or teams) to implement the Unit FRM strategy and programmes
- Ability to achieve strategic goals and evolve risk management strategy based on research, data and industry trends in an innovative, digital, data driven and fast-paced environment.
- Excellent problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority
Responsibilities
Financial – 20%
- Generate revenue through consistent delivery of loan repayment targets.
- Minimize portfolio risk exposure by reducing roll forward rates and maximizing repayments.
- Optimize Cost of Risk via contract negotiations with third-party service providers and incentive programs.
- Prepare collections and recoveries budgets and incentive structures.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders
Internal Business Processes – 50%
- Design, develop, implement, and review a Digital Lending Monitoring & Control strategy aligned to agile retail environments and global best practices.
- Develop and implement digital-first, data-driven monitoring frameworks compliant with regulations.
- Establish governance, QA processes, and standards for Retail Digital Solutions
- Embed credit risk controls within contracts with partners and service providers.
- Collaborate with Business, Product, Ecosystem, Data Science, and Engineering teams to:
- Automate end-to-end collections and recoveries processes.
- Integrate tools, systems, and data into a unified ecosystem.
- Develop analytics and MIS for insights across the collections lifecycle.
- Implement self-service and omni-channel debtor solutions.
- Develop third-party portals for negotiations, performance tracking, and compliance.
- Provide early warning insights to improve collections and underwriting.
- Support fraud management practices to reduce delinquency.
- Manage customer grievances related to debt.
- Define and cascade recovery targets to teams.
- Develop multi-channel collection frameworks
- Build strong partnerships across NCBA Group functions.
- Recruit and manage recovery agencies; ensure resolution targets are met.
- Handle litigation cases in liaison with external lawyers.
- Oversee collections across all markets.
- Design reward, recognition, and consequence management programs.
- Implement debtor incentive programs with Business and Risk teams.
- Liaise with external stakeholders ensuring SLA compliance.
- Recommend write-offs and restructuring strategies per policy.
- Drive continuous training and quality assurance.
- Ensure satisfactory audit, regulatory, and compliance outcomes.
Customer – 20%
- Design effective customer communication journeys and quality assurance guidelines.
- Conduct field visits and prepare reports.
- Oversee RM and promoter performance on repayments.
- Define SLA, TAT, and CSI benchmarks to support customer-centric processes.
Learning & Growth – 10%
- Promote risk culture through continuous improvement and training.
- Implement talent recruitment, development, and retention strategies.
- Foster teamwork, leadership, and skill development.
- Provide credit risk leadership across the Group.
- Optimize use of risk resources, enable staff rotation, and implement succession planning.
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