Recovery Officer at La Fayette Microfinance Bank Limited, Advans Nigeria

Job location :    Oyo State
Planned Start Date :    01/02/2022
Mission :    
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Recovery Management 

• Assess the situation of late payment to facilitate speedy customer in the payment. 
• 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. 2. Asset seizure/sales 
• Ability to successfully conduct assets seizure independently. 
• Ensure proper documentation of the seized item and immediate storage of the same. 
• 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. 
• Ability to coordinate seizures systematically with sales to ensure that the sales of the items can cover for the total outstanding debt. 3. Arrears Portfolio Management 
• Conduct Portfolio segment analysis to identify risky segments and potential methods of recovery of the debt. 
• Ability to Follow up on pending payment agreements with default clients and reach negotiated agreements with them. 
• Identify challenges in own portfolio and discuss same with the Head of Recovery with the objective of overcoming the challenges to recover the debt. 
• Identify and analyse portfolio to determine root causes of default and propose the best method of recovery of the loan. 
• 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. 4. 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. 
• Conduct prompt follow up on all parties leading to a jointly negotiated settlement and reduction of losses. 
• Look for innovative ways to get loan repayment other than restructuring, refinancing and write-offs. 
• Reduce write-off projections for own portfolio by 30% monthly. GENERIC RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Quality control and production arrears management: 
• Ensure the recovery of written off loans. 
• Monitor customer file and late payment in arrears. 
• Perform reminders by telephone, mail or in the field of late payment by customers. 
• Apply debt collection procedures to unpaid instalments. 
• Maintain close contact with customers when necessary and feasible. 
• Achieve given recovery targets. 
• Negotiate a new schedule in case of actual difficulty of the customer found. 
• Ensure recovering unpaid instalments is in accordance to the banks’ policy. 2. Controls 
• Checking past due notices/other client correspondence/letters. 
• Monitoring customers’ compliance to timeline.

Profile :    
Experience Required: Minimum of one (1) year experience as a collection recovery officer preferably in a financial institution. Education level : HND/ B.A. /B.Sc in any related discipline, and must have completed NYSC or possess an exclusion certificate. Special Training: Debt Recovery Training will be an added advantage.