17 Mar 2023
Credit Risk Analyst at Mighty Fin
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- Company: Mighty Fin
- Location: Zambia
- State: Lusaka
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job category: Administrative/Secretarial Jobs in Zambia
Job Description
The Credit Risk Analyst will be responsible for credit and risk management which includes making all lending decisions on behalf of Mighty Fin.
Responsibilities:
- Optimize risk, return and customer outcome tradeoffs through developing credit strategies across the various marketing channels, products and segments.
- Identify and implement opportunities to expand lending profitably.
- Oversee acquisitions underwriting policy including approve/decline, credit line assignment, pricing and term length.
- Differentiate credit policy for repeat customers.
- Develop pre-qualification process to determine which customers need banking validation.
- Drive growth through higher approval rates, higher loan sizes and expanded target population while still maintaining cash collection targets.
- Build acquisitions underwriting policy including approve/decline, credit line assignment and pricing.
- Provide information to regulators
- Build customer management programs to expand and deepen relationships with target customers, including credit line increases, product graduation and more
- Develop programs to mitigate high risk customers and actions, such as credit line decreases, payment float, authorizations, etc.
- Guide launch strategy to appropriately balance growth and risk management.
- Establish processes in terms of how changes to credit strategy, policies and other decisions that impact credit quality should be made.
- Define and implement appropriate documentation and scenarios to be evaluated.
- Serve as the customer for predictive models, partnering with data scientists to ensure new and refit models are in place as needed to enable the business strategy.
- Lead regular strategy changes to respond to changes in the external environment, new initiatives, variances from expectations and other drivers.
- Define appropriate risk boundaries and risk appetite that will enable the business to assume a heavily growth-oriented approach that enables future learnings while still protecting against large negative outcomes under various scenarios.
- Identify emerging trends in portfolio performance and the competitive environment.
- Lead regular strategy changes to respond to changes in the external environment, new initiatives, variances from expectations and other driver
Requirements:
The Credit Risk Analyst should have the following skills, education and experience:
- Proven work experience as a Credit Manager, Credit Analyst or similar role
- Hands-on experience with accounting software
- Solid understanding of lending procedures
- Be technology savvy; understand and use AI and Machine learning in credit and risk analysis
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to create and process financial spreadsheets (e.g. in Excel)
- Negotiation skills
- BSc in Accounting, Economics, Banking and Finance or relevant field
Method of Application
To apply for this job email your details to [email protected]March 31, 2023
