Job Vacancies at Lidya Nigeria

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• Collections Associate at Lidya
• Close The $5 Trillion SME Credit Gap in Fast-Growing Economies!

Company Culture:

Ambitious & Metrics Driven: You want to solve the $5 trillion USD small business credit gap across fast-growing economies. You are committed to relentlessly finding the right customer, building trust and converting those relationships into sustainable, win-win partnerships. You understand that you will be judged on your numbers and building a high growth, profitable loan book.

Has No Complacency and is High Energy. You understand your role is critical to the company. You apply high energy every day to settle debts and decrease NPLs. You want to grow every day, month, quarter, year. You are persistent, clear and driven to get deals done – properly and quickly.

Resourceful, High Integrity, High Impact. You find a way. You do business with trust and transparency and dig into the details with the aim to help customers repay on-time and consistently.

Collaborative. You understand you need a team to succeed. You carry along internal stakeholders to ensure they are aligned to support and drive collections.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Team Management: Manage the collections analyst in the debt collection processes and work with analysts to develop, recommend, and enact payment plans to eliminate client debt in an agreed timeframe aligned with Lidya’s collections policy.  Collaborate with key internal stakeholders and external partner to support the needs of the collections processes.

Debt Settlements: Accurately maintain client records and manage all past due accounts and determine the appropriate collection action to be taken for each individual client.  Collect on delinquent accounts by contacting customers via telephone, email, and visiting the place of business. Compile daily, weekly, and monthly reports on status of delinquent accounts, collection activity, and accounts receivable status. Report progress of collections to Supervisor, make recommendations for next steps and write-offs.

Loan Portfolio Growth. Support the evaluation of loans given to customers by ensuring that credit appraisals are completed properly and uphold monitoring of accounts to identify outstanding debts.  Review terms of contract and service with client and clearly communicate various payment options.  Work cooperatively with other departments to best determine how to balance both the customer's and Lidya’s needs

Desired Qualifications and Skillset:

• 4 to 7+ years of experience working in financial services industry as a collections, credit disputes, credit reporting, or fraud resolution Associate.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, law, accounting, statistics, investments or a related business discipline.
• Ability to manage a team of 2 to 3 colleagues to meet commercial targets consistently and sustainably
• Working knowledge of the entire underwriting process from loan application to funds disbursement and collections.
• Outstanding customer engagement skills and demonstrated experience with managing day to day aspects of client relationships, including considerable experience with client negotiations.
• Superior organization with a demonstration of ownership and taking initiative to accomplish goals.
• Ability to work in a goal oriented environment where you will be evaluated on your KPIs.
• High attention to detail and strong analytical skills including the ability to properly identify the key credit risks, and reach a prompt and well thought out credit decision.

Our offer!

• Competitive salary and workplace benefits.
• Become part of a highly professional and dynamic team.
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for country-changing ventures.

Join the journey!

We are looking for adventurers who want to make a difference in the fastest growing economies in the world.

Lidya is an equal opportunity employer.  We strongly believe that diverse and inclusive teams make better decisions and work more effectively to make a positive impact for all employees.

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Job Description: Collections Analyst at Lidya

The Collections Analyst position is responsible for negotiating payments and settlements on behalf of Lidya to ensure the timely collection of payments from delinquent clients and accurate accounts receivable reporting.

Company Culture:

Ambitious & Metrics Driven: You want to solve the $5 trillion USD small business credit gap across fast-growing economies. You are committed to relentlessly finding the right customer, building trust and converting those relationships into sustainable, win-win partnerships. You understand that you will be judged on your numbers and building a high growth, profitable loan book.

Has No Complacency and is High Energy. You understand your role is critical to the company. You apply high energy every day to settle debts and decrease NPLs. You want to grow every day, month, quarter, year. You are persistent, clear and driven to get deals done – properly and quickly.

Resourceful, High Integrity, High Impact. You find a way. You do business with trust and transparency and dig into the details with the aim to help customers repay on-time and consistently.

Collaborative. You understand you need a team to succeed. You carry along internal stakeholders to ensure they are aligned to support and drive collections.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Debt Settlements: Accurately maintain client records throughout the debt collection process and work with customers to develop, recommend, and enact payment plans to eliminate client debt in an agreed timeframe aligned with Lidya’s collections policy. Manage all past due accounts and determine the appropriate collection action to be taken for each individual client.  Collect on delinquent accounts by contacting customers via telephone, email, and visiting the place of business. Compile daily, weekly, and monthly reports on status of delinquent accounts, collection activity, and accounts receivable status. Report progress of collections to Supervisor, make recommendations for next steps and write-offs.
Loan Portfolio Growth. Support the evaluation of loans given to customers by ensuring that credit appraisals are completed properly and uphold monitoring of accounts to identify outstanding debts.  Review terms of contract and service with client and clearly communicate various payment options.  Work cooperatively with other departments to best determine how to balance both the customer's and Lidya’s needs.

Desired Qualifications and Skillset:

• 2 to 4+ years of experience working in financial services industry as a collections, credit disputes, credit reporting, or fraud resolution analyst.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, law, accounting, statistics, investments or a related business discipline.
• Working knowledge of the entire underwriting process from loan application to funds disbursement and collections.
• Outstanding customer engagement skills and demonstrated experience with managing day to day aspects of client relationships, including considerable experience with client negotiations.
• Superior organization with a demonstration of ownership and taking initiative to accomplish goals.
• Ability to work in a goal oriented environment where you will be evaluated on your KPIs.
• High attention to detail and strong analytical skills including the ability to properly identify the key credit risks, and reach a prompt and well thought out credit decision.

Our offer!

• Competitive salary and workplace benefits.
• Become part of a highly professional and dynamic team.
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for country-changing ventures.

Join the journey!

We are looking for adventurers who want to make a difference in the fastest growing economies in the world.

Lidya is an equal opportunity employer.  We strongly believe that diverse and inclusive teams make better decisions and work more effectively to make a positive impact for all employees.

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JobDescription: Relationship Analyst at Lidya

The  Relationship   Analyst  position  is  responsible  for  acquiring  &  managing  clients  and  the  assessment  of  the creditworthiness of potential customers with the goal of growing Lidya’s loan portfolio.

Company Culture:

Ambitious & Metrics Driven: You want to solve the $5 trillion USD small business credit gap across fast growing  economies.  You  are  committed  to  relentlessly  finding  the  right  customer,  building  trust  and converting those relationships into sustainable, win-win partnerships. You understand that you will be judged on your numbers and building a high growth, profitable loan book.

Has no complacency and is high energy. You understand your role is critical to the company. You apply high energy every day to grow your customer base and revenue. You want to grow every day, month, quarter, year. You are persistent, clear and driven to get deals done – properly and quickly.

Resourceful, High Integrity, High Impact. You find a way. You do business with trust and transparency and dig into the details with the aim to help customers get the credit they need to grow their business.

Collaborative. You understand you need a team to succeed. You carry along internal stakeholders to ensure they are aligned to support and drive sales and conversion.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Customer Acquisition: Present, promote and sell Lidya’s products using solid negotiations to existing and prospective clients across relevant sectors, including but not limited to companies in the e-commerce, consumer goods, healthcare and financial services industries.

Client Engagement: Manage existing client engagements, appraisal of customer loan applications, and approval or rejection of applications within agreed timelines and loan limits.  Reach out to customer leads through cold calling and establish, develop and maintain positive new client relationships.

Loan Portfolio Growth: Achieve agreed upon commercial targets and outcomes on a monthly basis.

Support the evaluation, authorization and approval of loans given to customers by authentication of KYC documentation presented for all credit applications and eligibility assessments as required by the Lidya and regulators.

Desired Qualifications and Skillset:

• 1 to 4 years+ of experience (preferably commercial) working with an Investment Bank, Commercial Bank, Management Consulting Firm or in a Business Development Role (with experience in the financial services sector a plus).
• Excellent selling, communication and negotiation skills with a working knowledge of the entire underwriting process from loan application to funds disbursement and collections.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, mathematics, management or a related business discipline.
• Highly motivated and target driven with a demonstrated experience with managing day to day aspects of client relationships and projects including considerable experience meeting commercial milestones (i.e. achieving revenue or profit targets).
• Outstanding customer engagement skills and a passion for creating an extraordinary customer experience regardless of the final credit decision.
• Prioritizing, time management and organizational skills with the ability to work in a goal oriented environment where you will be evaluated on your KPIs.
• High attention to detail and strong analytical skills including the ability to properly identify the key credit risks, and reach a prompt and well thought out credit decision.

Our offer!

• Competitive salary and workplace benefits.
• Become part of a highly professional and dynamic team.
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for country-changing ventures.

Join the journey!

We are looking for adventurers who want to make a difference in the fastest growing economies in the world.
Lidya is an equal opportunity employer.  We strongly believe that diverse and inclusive teams make better decisions and work more effectively to make a positive impact for all employees.