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Chief Credit Officer Employment Opportunity – Bayport Financial Services Uganda Ltd
Job Title: Chief Credit Officer (CCO)
Organisation: Bayport
Financial Services Uganda Ltd
Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Bayport Financial Services Uganda Ltd is part of the Bayport
Group (BML) headquartered in Mauritius and working out of Johannesburg, South
Africa with Financial Services Operations in over 9 Countries in Africa and
South America. In line with our Corporate Objective of continuous improvement
and achieving efficiencies in our Country Operations, we invite applications
from suitably qualified, professional and experienced candidates for the role
of Chief Credit Officer (CCO) within the Bayport Uganda Business at MANCO level.
Job Title: Chief Credit
Officer (CCO)
Working with the Chief Executive Officer and a member of MANCO,
the Chief Credit Officer (CCO) is one of the Senior Management Member responsible
for the entire credit performance from origination, coding, collection and
overall proficiency of the Credit function.
The Chief
Credit Officer is responsible for the overall Credit strategy, policies and management
of the projects implementation framework in credit, Credit administration and
Credit operations of the business of Bayport Uganda. The incumbent is further
responsible for ensuring that Bayport Uganda retains its competitive edge and
advantage within the microfinance space in Uganda by ensuring continuous
re-engineering of the country processes, progressive updates of the country
offerings and cultivating and retaining a robust relationship management platform
within the industry and the wider stakeholder forum, specifically with and Regulator
and the wider Government Apparatus to deliver on this credit objective in
Uganda. He or She will coordinate and partner appropriately with the business growth
and operations leadership to deliver value and competitive advantage for the
business and ensure an efficient and effective management of the resources of
the department. Ultimately, the incumbent is expected to ensure that the efficiencies
in performance exceeds the group and country expectation, with a minimum delivery
of 95% across all measured Key Performance Indicators for the Credit Function.
Summary of Accountability and Responsibility:
- Plan and coordinate management
of all credit functions by providing management oversite on Origination
and Coding, Receipting and Refunds, Disbursement and Cash Management,
Collection Efficiency, OPC Functionality, Alternative Recovery Credit
Operations and EDC Functionality. - Drive all credit
activities including the mobilization of borrowers, review, underwriting and
approval of loans and the timely recovery of all disbursed loans. - Track trends in the financial
services industry and propose adjustments/changes to the company’s credit policies,
strategy, processes and procedures to ensure the company retains its
competitive advantage within the civil service microfinance and retail lending
business space in Uganda. - Apply professional insight
and understanding to the management of the company’s entire loan portfolio
and ensure portfolio growth. - Ensure the company’s
compliance with all regulatory requirements in the areas of credit,
including but not limited to compliance with lending limits, sector caps, loan
portfolio performance and performance classification. Also ensure
compliance with regulatory reporting timelines and compliance with all Regulatory
prescriptions from a credit perspective at all times. - Provide credit risk
management expertise and advice to management through regular feedback
using competent statistical tools and financial projection outputs for the
formulation/annual update of the strategic plan, corporate budget and
division’s plan and budget; - Ensure regularization of
the excesses/installment arrears in line with Credit Policy and in close
collaboration with sales team, branch managers and internal control teams;
- Participate in the
continual review and update of the company’s credit policies, guidelines,
and practices, in line with changes in credit risk and the company’s
business priorities; - Provide necessary guidance
and leadership to subordinate teams and ensure effective execution of all
Management, Group and Board recommendations and directives to the Credit
Function - Review the daily and periodic
Credit functional reports and ensure timely generation/compilation of management
information reports and feedback to the Business and the Group Credit
Teams. - Monitor daily movement of
credit portfolio and ensure a healthy business portfolio throughout the
year ensuring that overall Portfolio at Risk does not exceed 10% of total
portfolio and achieve and eventually keep the Non-Performing Portfolio at
below 5% of Realized Debtor Book value by achieving a minimum consistent
98% first cycle coding measures with corresponding minimal monthly payroll
cash collection of 96% of RDR Portfolio. - Ensure that credit
delivery is effective, responsive and meets customer satisfaction; and ensure
oversight over the recovery of non-performing assets and provide remedial
actions for all overdue recoveries.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
The ideal candidate should be having a minimum of 10 years of
Banking or Microfinance Institution experience with at least 5 years of senior
Management experience in handling and directly supervising the Credit Department
or a very busy Unit or Section of the Credit Department with a minimum of 5
direct or indirect reports and should currently be actively employed; and must possess
a minimum of a good Bachelor’s degree from a reputable organization.
Areas of Deployment: Kampala with multiple movement to Bayport
Uganda upcountry Branch operations in over 52 locations.
How to Apply:
Qualifying candidates can send
their applications with a signed formal application letter,
Detailed Curriculum Vitae and copies of Previous and current employment
documents and certified academic documents and any other relevant supporting
documentations to The Senior Supervisor Human Resources, Bayport Financial
Services, Plot 4, Kyandondo Road, Trust Tower, Kampala, PO Box 1171, Kampala,
Uganda Or email to hrcom@bayport.co.ug;
indicating on the left top corner of the application envelop and if email
application on the subject matter role applied for and name of applicant.
Deadline: Monday 17th February, 2020;
NB: If not
contacted by Tuesday 18th February, 2020, please consider your application
as having been unsuccessful. Electronic
Applications should not exceed 10Mbs.
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