Job Description
Job Purpose
- Responsible for monitoring and contacting loan beneficiaries for repayment, especially those within “0-30” Days Past Due Bracket. Create innovative and effective strategies in accordance with legal framework requirements to recover overdue loans.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Contacting loan beneficiaries daily and informing them of their loan repayment obligations via phone calls
- Support Internal Recovery Officers on calls to 31-120 days defaulters
- Responding to loan beneficiaries’ queries and escalating accordingly
- Providing daily report on loan beneficiaries’ feedback
- Engage defaulting members through the telephone and e-mails to recover payments on defaulted accounts.
- Liaising with Internal Recovery Team on beneficiaries that have passed the “0-30” DPD Bracket that require physical visit
- Maintain daily activity logs of number of calls, related party contacts, promises to pay and promises to pay kept
- Recovery of overdue loan (1-30 Days Bracket)
- Verify information of defaulted payments and follow up with a call
- Negotiate effective payment plan arrangements & follow up on the progress of payments
- Write and submit timely reports on performance, targets, and beneficiaries’ queries
Qualifications & Experience
- First Degree or Higher National Diploma certificate (minimum of lower credit) from a recognized higher institution
- Minimum of 2 years’ cognate experience in related function
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the role:
- Strong active-listening and verbal-communication skills (especially with ability to relate in Yoruba or Pidgin English)
- Good interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in problem-solving
- Ability to multitask and manage time effectively
- Experience working in a call center or customer-support role or lending financial institution
- Good negotiation skills
- Expertise in conflict resolution
- Good knowledge of CRM practices and systems
- Be proficient in the use of Microsoft packages