The Concept Group is a holding company for companies established in 1992. Subsidiaries under the Group include: Rosabon Financial Services – Nigeria’s Leading Equipment Leasing and Financial Intermediary Company, Concept Nova – Bespoke Enterprise Software Development Company, Percy Aitkins – Bureau De Change.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Corporate Finance Analyst
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities & Duties
- Analyse intelligence about performance of existing treasury products and strategically aid product development to optimize liquidity
- Research on information relevant to the company’s markets and on debt to equity funding options available for the company
- Minimal research and creating structure behind possible mergers and acquisition
- Perform financial modelling and analysis related to interest expense and financial metric forecasting for internal controls and debt covenant compliance
- Support production of presentations for board, investor relations and other key constituents
- Understand, maintain, and support the execution of interest rate risk management strategy
- Participate in cross-functional projects with investments, development, accounting and other internal groups
- Ensure all communicated deadlines are met
- Manage and complete daily assigned tasks
- Maintain good interpersonal relations at work and show selflessness to colleagues
- Actively ensure positive feedback from team mates at all times
- Comply with all implemented company policies.
Qualifications, Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in any numerate course
- Professional certification such as ICAN/ACA/ACCA would be an added advantage.
- Relevant experience in Banking Operations, Treasury Management and/or Corporate and Investment Banking also an added advantage.
Skills & Competencies:
- Strong financial analytical skills (modelling), problem solving capabilities, as well as sound knowledge of accounting and financial reporting
- Solid understanding of, and keen interest in, financial markets, banking and corporate finance
- Knowledge of interest rates, debt products, and fixed income concepts and capital structure optimization are a plus
- Must have a strong understanding of finance concepts
- Proven strong work ethic, ability to make decisions, and work under tight deadlines without sacrificing quality of work product
- Detail oriented and well-organized, with ability to multi-task and effectively prioritize various responsibilities
- Strong communication and presentation skills – able to speak and write in a clear and articulate manner
- Team player that demonstrates flexibility and the ability to integrate and work well with others
- Motivated to succeed with capacity to assume increasing responsibility
- Business related computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite.
Job Title: Lead, Underwriter, Collections and Recovery
Location: Lagos
Job Purpose
- Supervises all activities in Underwriting, Collections and Recovery units while providing and implementing recommendations. Generating and ensuring that all reports as regards Underwriting, Collections and Recovery are efficiently and effectively carried out. Implementing policies to guide the activities in Underwriting, Collections and Recovery.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensures turn-around time for each transaction is minimised to the barest minimum
- Ensures the credit worthiness of each transaction especially those above the level of junior underwriter by preparing, reviewing and analyzing risk criteria of potential customers
- Develops and implements strategies for effective credit assessment
- Reviews application of credit facilities and pointing deviations from the company’s credit policy
- Highlights quality assurance issues in credit proposals received from business areas
- Ensuring client details, loan amounts, interest rate, guarantor’s details are appropriately booked
- Ensures full recovery on all default accounts
- Ensures that every defaulting customer is contacted
- Ensures repossession of assets from defaulting customers
- Working Internal operations to ensure that asset disposal follow the appropriate procedures
- Ensures recovery of Bad or Doubtful Facilities
- Ensures appropriate procedures are followed when a lease expires and appropriate documents such as transfer of ownership and letter of non-indebtedness are give to clients
- Manages interbank relationships to ensure seamless processing for collections
- Follows up on Direct Debits and ensures timely posting and reversals
- Jointly maintains DD and PDC trackers with the Collections team
- Efficient management of cheque lodgement and ensures posting of cleared cheques
- Follows up on returned cheques for resolution
- Ensures that account statements are properly generated
- Ensures proper escalation of issues and its resolution
- Ensures that complaints from customers is at its barest minimum
- Ensures that team member comply with all policies associated with credit and risk management
- Ensures that all reports as regards underwriting, collections and recover are available periodically to the users of the report.
Role Competency:
- Ability to make prompt and appropriate decisions as at when needed or choose rightly among different alternatives of solutions to a problem.
- Ability to handle and work efficiently with Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite and other softwares for the management of operations such as Remita, NIBSS, Standing Orders, IBS, etc
- Ability to form good relationships and keeping constant communication with clients
- Knowledge of all practices and procedures involved in credit and risk management and how they can be implemented in a way that minimises financial loss.
- Ability to identify gaps within the credit policies.
- Ability to understand and operate systems that allow exchange of fund between clients and the company, and the softwares or applications needed to do this.
- Knowledge of world class business practices needed to create the highest level of efficiency possible
- Ability to understand and oversee all procedures and operations involved in debt management and recovery of default accounts
- Ability to understand business trends, situations, practices, procedures and models
- Ability to guide and manage people, oversee processes, guide initiatives and steer employees towards the achievement of goals. Ability to make financial judgements
- Ability to pose solutions to everyday issues
- Ability to review, analyse and report activities and data in a way that is easily understood to make better decisions.
- Ability to cause a team to work together effectively to achieve the goals of the unit
Educational Qualification & Functional/Technical Skill or Certification
- HND/B.Sc Accounting, Finance,Business Administration or other relevant discipline.
- Minimum of 3 years relevant experience in Underwriting, Collections and Recovery
Job Title: Portfolio Risk Analyst
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- Conducts detailed portfolio analysis and reports. The analysis a report on loan and lease portfolio to anticipate, identify and mitigate credit risk exposure related to portfolio management activities.
Key Accountabilities
- Analyses transactional risk measures including default, correlations and stress losses to enhance concentration risk views
- Estimates the probability of defaults, loss given default in order to validate risk parameters (PD, LGD, EAD/CCF) calculated for internal credit risk management
- Identifies adjustments required to risk parameters (PD, LGD, EAD/CCF) calculated for internal credit risk management
- Analyses and monitors the company’s lease portfolio
- Assessing all other credit risks and making recommendation
- Periodically analyses quantitatively and qualitatively the loan portfolio of the company based on sector concentration, volume concentration,product concentration, etc.
- Periodically performs default/principal at risk assessment, measuring the impact of guarantors/collaterals and impact of group loan on risk exposure
- Monitors compliance to credit and risk policies of the company
- Prepares report on loan and lease portfolio
- Prepares report on analytics of portfolio performance, emerging trends and areas of opportunity
- Prepares comprehensive report on all repossessed lease assets identifying principal outstanding, loan-asset value, number of rentals outstanding, date asset is expected to be disposed and estimation of depreciation in asset value
- Mitigates credit risk exposure related to portfolio management activities
- Prepares report on probability of default using information from direct debit, cheque lodgement report and returned cheque report
- Suggests initiative to ensure consistency and compliance with credit policies and improve credit qualities
- Proposes evolutions in the policy, process, procedure, methodology, collaterals related to the risk identified
- Makes recommendations for process improvement, addressing gaps and areas for additional or improved reporting and data
- Responsible for training the department on identified trends and recommendations
Skills & Knowledge
- Ability to review, analyse and report credit and risk activities and data in a way that is easily understood to make better decisions.
- Ability to handle and work efficiently with Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite and other statistical and analytical softwares or application especially Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint.
- Ability to present and communicate analysis and recommendations to business leaders by supported facts.
- Knowledge of all practices and procedures involved in credit and risk management and how they can be implemented in a way that minimizes financial loss.
- Ability to identify gaps within the credit policies.
- Ability to anticipate and identify financial and economic trends as regards loan and lease portfolio.
- Ability to understand business trends, situations, practices, procedures and models
- Ability to function within defined guidelines and procedures to resolve routine issues
- Ability to measure financial data to evaluate financial performance and position
Educational Qualification & Experience
- B.Sc/M.Sc in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics or any other relevant discipline.
- At least 1-2 years of relevant experience
Deadline: 31st December, 2018.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@conceptgroup-ng.com with job role as the email subject
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