JOB PURPOSE
To oversee the SMB department's collections by monitoring and guiding the collections team and through Vendor Management.
Tasks
- Prepare & execute collections plan, set targets and develop case specific strategies to recover money
- Tracking Pre-NPA cases and reversals from NPA for respective Regions.
- Maintain the delinquency within budgeted numbers as per policy.
- Timely initiation of Legal activities. Ensuring execution of legal tools.
- Timely collections of overdue and irregularities in the Delinquent portfolio.
- SMA / Weak Account cases tracking on regular basis.
- Look out for early warning signals and timely action for resolution.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for reducing delinquency by flow control and improve recovery rates on the assigned Portfolio.
- Initiate legal action on delinquent customers
- Manage a team of Collections Managers & Collections Executives attached to various branches across the state for Unsecured Business Loans.
- Drive performance of collections agencies/ identify areas of weaknesses, recommending solutions, and supporting the collection team to achieve targets.
- Ensure timely allocation of cases to Collections Mangers and Executives based on Geography and Vintage.
- Ensure the collection efficiency through daily reports and regular reviews with the team.
- Strategize, forecast, drive and execute plans including the hiring plans.
- Ensure dissemination of targets, KPI, and incentive structure to the team at the beginning of the month.
- Ensure periodic audits of agencies and the in-house processes through the audit team and compliance with processes within the Region
- Ensure internal and external guidelines are adhered to in the field
- Motivate team through coaching, development, and training interventions
- To support the business on data quality management i.e. improving the quality of customer information available through timely feedback
- Scan the environment and be up to date on emerging trends in the market on collection analytics and build use cases
Functional Skills
- Ability to deliver in high pressure
- Team Management,
- Basic Knowledge of Legalities of SME Collections
- Good Networking with Local Authorities
- Strong follow up and recovery mindset, design and review logics of field follow up for the portfolio managed towards achievement of target set.