- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 3 – 4 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
Recovery Officer (Written Off) at Advans
Recovery Officer (Written Off)
Main Responsibilities
Recovery Management:
- Assess the situation of late payment to facilitate speedy customer in the payment.Â
- Ensure that 50% of clients in Par 1-90 portfolio are contacted.
- Ability to conduct proper portfolio handover.
- Ensure that all correspondence / information are requested and received from responsible Client Officers and kept in the clients file.
Asset seizure / sales:
- Ability to successfully conduct assets seizure independently.Â
- Ensure proper documentation of the seized item and immediate storage of the same.Â
- Maintain good communication with the Head of Recovery if challenges occur during seizures and also work with him to fix prices of the items in line with the banks policy.Â
- Ability to coordinate seizures systematically with sales to ensure that the sales of the items can cover for the total outstanding debt.
Arrears Portfolio Management:
- Conduct Portfolio segment analysis to identify risky segments and potential methods of recovery of the debt.Â
- Ability to Follow up on pending payment agreements with default clients and reach negotiated agreements with them.Â
- Identify challenges in own portfolio and discuss same with the Head of Recovery with the objective of overcoming the challenges to recover the debt.Â
- Identify and analyse portfolio to determine root causes of default and propose the best method of recovery of the loan.Â
- Ensure that very difficult cases at least 5 per week are brought to the attention of the weekly arrears committee meeting for a concerted effort towards debt recovery.
Reduction of Loan restructuring, Loan refinancing and Loan write-offs:
- Ability to react proactively to unhealthy and risky portfolio thereby saving the institution of losses.Â
- Conduct prompt follow up on all parties leading to a jointly negotiated settlement and reduction of losses.Â
- Look for innovative ways to get loan repayment other than restructuring, refinancing and write-offs.Â
- Reduce write-off projections for own portfolio by 30% monthly.Â
Generic Responsibilities
Quality control and production arrears management:Â
- Ensure the recovery of written off loans.Â
- Monitor customer file and late payment in arrears.Â
- Perform reminders by telephone, mail or in the field of late payment by customers.Â
- Apply debt collection procedures to unpaid instalments.Â
- Maintain close contact with customers when necessary and feasible.Â
- Achieve given recovery targets.Â
- Negotiate a new schedule in case of actual difficulty of the customer found.Â
- Ensure recovering unpaid instalments is in accordance to the banks’ policy.
 Controls:
- Checking past due notices / other client correspondence / letters.Â
- Monitoring customers’ compliance to timeline.
Requirements
- Candidates should possess relevant qualifications with 3 – 4 years experience.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified applicants should send their CV to: recruitment@advansnigeria.com using “Recovery Officer” as the subject of the email.
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