Job Title: Assistant Relationship Manager
Job Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Our Client, a microfinance bank is looking to hire an Assistant Relationship Manager (Assistant RM) with experience in SME Loans. The Assistant RM will advise borrowers on financial status and methods of payments. Includes SME, ASSET Finance and Microloans, as officers and agents, collection analysts, loan servicing officers, and loan underwriters.
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Sourcing of SME clients for both deposits & loans in line with set targets.
- Sourcing of individual clients for both savings, Current and fixed deposit accounts in line with set target.
- Packaging of customers’ credit requests
- Conduct qualitative credit appraisals of clients’ businesses e.g. cash flow, profitability, P&L & Balance Sheet Analysis.
- Ensure credits are packaged in line with credit policies & procedures of the bank.
- Ensure credits are within the bank’s obligor limit
- Rendering financial advice to clients
- Rendering weekly & monthly reports to the management
- Ensure proper KYC are conducted on customers
- Monitoring the loan portfolio and follow up on repayment.
- Carry the entire operation and execution from loan approval to legal to disbursement.
- Monitor the client relations and payment schedule.
- Partner with possible institutions to help better serve our client requirement and get business.
- Understand the client need & design communication for them.
- Design Products suitable to market and client’s requirement in coordination and supervision of Head – SME.
- Study competitor and do product benchmarking.
- Maintain and manage the cordial relationship with stakeholders through client servicing.
- Recommending Cases to put up for appraisal
- Recommending New Product Design
- Recommending Institutional Tie-ups
- Evaluation of Financials of prospecting firms/customers
- Market research activities
- Provide feedback to senior management, marketing and product management on customer’s needs and the efficiency of marketing strategies and tactics.
- Responsible for delivering a service to customers that matches the Bank’s brand promise of being “the Right Partner”.
ESSENTIAL JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree from a reputable institution with at least 3 years related experience.
- Advance knowledge of the Microfinance and/or Banking industry and related state or banking compliance regulations, banking law, etc. is a must
- High level of numeracy to evaluate complex statistical financial information is required
- Strong managerial, business development, analytical and research skills
- Strong leadership qualities with a proactive, results- oriented and a positive “can do” disposition
- Excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills
- Must possess good knowledge in results-based management systems (RBMS)
- Excellent computer skills in the use of Microsoft office suite and working knowledge of banking software.
- Willingness to work on flexible scheduling.
- Personal Attributes
- critical thinking and problem solving skills
- planning and organizing
- decision-making
- communication skills
- persuasiveness
- influencing and leading
- delegation
- team work
- negotiation