Job Description
Responsibilities
- Prospect for new SME clients and assist with their loan applications.
- Analyze and interpret financial statements of the business in order to access the repayment capacity and financial capacity of the borrower.
- Recommendation of Loans: Recommend loans to the Credit Unit for approval.
- Monitoring and Follow up with Repayment: ensure 100% repayment of disbursed loans.
- Market intelligence: develop market intelligence, detailed research, competition analysis and database with the view to capture the assigned market space.
- Develop sales initiative/Conduct Product Campaign: acquire an impeccable knowledge of all products/services, develop a strategy in communicating product essentials to get buy-in through all available platforms (one–on–one, social media, target group engagement and other sales channels)
- Maintain contact and good relationships with clients.
- Growth and development: study market/industry trends/initiatives per time to boost personal and target delivery per timeline.
- Execute all other jobs as assigned by team lead and management
Relevant Skills, Qualifications, Attributes & Experience
- Candidates should possess a B.Sc / HND in Social Sciences or any other relevant course of study.
- Minimum of 2 years' cognate experience in SME Lending in any Financial Institution (preferably a Microfinance Bank/ Finance house)
- Ability to evaluate needs of customers and determine what products or services would best serve those needs
- Good interpersonal relationship skills.
- Must be computer literate.
- Excellent communication, reporting skills.