Credit Manager

Job Location: Douala, Cameroon

About the role

The Credit Manager - Cameroon position is a field-based role under the Global Risk and Credit team in Cameroon. The role holder will oversee and manage credit risk & other risks within the Easybuy business. This role requires designing, implementing, and maintaining robust credit risk controls and operational processes to strengthen/improve the portfolio health and compliance.

Department

Corporate Risk

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

Cameroon

Workplace type

Onsite

Reporting To

Credit Lead - West & Central Africa

What you would be expected to do

• Assess portfolio performance:
• Identifying and classifying customers at risk of default through data and direct client interaction.
• Identification of portfolio Reflags and timely reporting of the same
• Ensuring timely and accurate reporting of risk indicators and portfolio performance metrics.
• Comprehend regional/Area trends, specific Product trends, and proposing remedies to avert any negative trends.

2. Audit & Compliance:

• Conduct internal audits to identify process gaps and ensure compliance with existing policies (Underwriting, Collection process, Welcome, Repossession process, Change of details, etc )
• Provide detailed findings with actionable risk mitigation recommendations.

3. Collections Interventions:

• Engage in proactive collection strategies, i.e., ensuring KYC and Underwriting strategies aimed at enhancing the quality of clients onboarded.
• Generate, define, and implement field collection strategies through the field teams to improve collections.

4. Review existing policies and their impact on portfolio management and recommend adjustments or updates based on the market trends or field findings.

5. Ensure Optimization of Portfolio segmentation is achieved by assigning accounts from different buckets to specific users and propose segmentation changes where necessary.

6. Pilot Management: Ensure pilots in the field are well managed and tracked to meet the set success metrics by engaging the relevant stakeholders.

7. Fraud management: Ensure investigations into reported fraud cases are done on time, and cases are closed within SLA.

8. Reporting & Documentation: Prepare comprehensive field reports including data collation, process documentation, and operational insights. Ensure timely and accurate reporting of risk indicators and portfolio performance metrics.

9. Perform industry research, assess information collected, and propose changes that will improve the market advantage of Sun King Cameroun from both sales and collections.

10.Any other task allocated by the Credit /Risk Management team in relation to the role scope from time to time.

You might be a strong candidate if you have

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, Risk Management or a related business field, over 7 years of related experience preferably in the Audit/Risk/Credit/Data department with at least 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Other relevant certification in Credit Management or Business Data/Statistics/ Data/Computer Science is an added advantage.
• Significant knowledge of data collection and field surveys.
• Excellent planning, organisational and data skills with strong attention to detail.

Attributes

• Flexible, can quickly adapt to change, and able to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear thinking/problem solving ability. Ability to spearhead/supervise projects/process improvement within operations and drive positive change, being able to break down complex issues into simpler steps and resolve them.
• Strong managerial skills to direct and motivate a team of professionals.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written expression.
• Team spirit skills and stakeholder management: Ability to engage effectively with key stakeholders, working altogether to ensure sound business outcomes.
• Outstanding planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to work alone with minimum supervision.
• High level of integrity and privacy.

What Sun King Offers

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.

Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more - all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King's workforce.