JOB TITLE: Underwriting Policy Strategist
JOB LOCATION: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
JOB DETAILS:
- Underwriting Policy Strategist will carefully monitor the underwriting unit’s policies and constantly define necessary policies, optimizing same for effective performance, as well as translating and communicating high-level directions for ‘front line’ underwriters, i.e., underwriters assessing risks on individual accounts, to follow.
- This opportunity is also responsible for effectively guiding every single intermediary step and decision in the underwriting activities, resulting ultimately, to a perfectly executed underwriting strategy.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop strategies that can enable risk control.
- Collaborate with strategic business leaders in designing and implementing strategic credit analysis policies, as well as driving same to ensure optimal performance.
- Develop strategies to determine loan risk and customer behavioral trend.
- Partner with business units and other stakeholders to develop credit strategies to meet business goals
- Monitor the existing policies and develop new ones to ensure that the portfolio quality is within expectations while enabling business growth.
- Keep abreast of latest analytical tools and techniques and use them to develop strategies
- Act as gatekeepers to ensure adequately priced and fairly selected exposures are entering the company’s books.
- Monitor competition’s contracts and strategies and with it, ensure adequate benchmarks in line with the company’s risk appetite.
- Liaise with the product department to analyze all products and product features, and consequently, design an effective strategy around first level analyses before disbursement.
Requirements
- Candidates should possess a B.Sc. in Finance, Accounting or any relevant field.
- Have 2+ years of experience managing credit for unsecured lending portfolios
- Highly analytical and love to analyze data to generate information
- Excellent communicator to present and explain your proposes and reviewed policies to multiple internal stakeholders
- In-depth knowledge of IFRS principles and changes.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Deadline: January 20, 2023
Job Features
Job Category | Consulting / Business Strategy/ Planning |