Head of Credit at Robert Walters

About

The new Head of Credit Role will have a heavy emphasis on technical, quantitative, automotive, and digital elements. Applicants will need to bring these forward-thinking attitudes and credentials, to the table.

Qualifications & skills:

• Honours or MBA degree, advantageous
• Academic background in Accounting or Economics preferred, but not essential
• Experience gained as a Business Banking Head of Credit, or similar (SME's, not Corporate clients), non-negotiable
• Ability to demonstrate very strong technical, and analytical ability
• Experience of both designing and delivering, strategy, on a massive scale
• Must have deep understanding and experience of: Intuitive lending, scored lending, secured credit and unsecured credit
• Any exposure or experience of bringing technologies such as Advanced Quantitative Data Analytics or Machine Learning - will be the mark of difference in your application.

Management responsibilities:

• 8 senior reports
• Including Head of Quantitative scorecards, Head of lending, Head of Credit, Head of Collections, etc

Key Duties:

• With ample support, you will aggressively grow the presence, size, and reach of the lending function, across the whole of South Africa
• Management of the full credit function, top to bottom
• Complete transformation of lending practices, moving from intuitive and manual, to scored and automated
• Working hand in hand with the CEO to deliver the "new bank"

The successful role holder will bring a revolutionary and fresh perspective to the traditional credit mandate.