Senior Risk Manager - Cape Town, South Africa - Recruitment Matters Africa

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Our client is looking for a Senior Risk manager to work within the Risk and Analytics department to enhance the company's performance by providing information, analyses, reports, and technical support for the development and implementation of strategic solutions.


Responsibilities:


  • Assist team to achieve a balanced credit portfolio by accurately forecasting expected results
  • Develop and implement champion/challenger customer strategies that deliver performance in line with Board expectations
  • Monitor portfolio performance and ensure book performance meets predefined KPIs by proactively proposing changes
  • Investigating data integrity issues, testing assumptions and validating analytical results, ensuring the accuracy of findings
  • Create new account management strategies to optimize the business objectives within specific constraints
  • Presenting ideas via reports and presentations, outlining findings, and making recommendations for improvements to senior stakeholders
  • Forecasting and monitoring implemented strategies using statistical techniques
  • Project manage the implementation of strategy changes into live systems
  • Coding (Retailer experience)
  • Credit professional and have experience in IFRS9, credit strategy rules, and risk registers)

Key Skills:


  • Ability to work efficiently under pressure and within structured and unstructured parameters,
  • Advantageous to have predictive Analytics experience with a highly numerate background,
  • Must be able to monitor models and report back to the board.

Qualifications:


  • Business Science Degree or B.Com Degree
  • 8+ or more years of experience in consumer credit (within a Credit Risk analytics environment) with demonstrated ability to implement solutions based on findings from analytical projects
  • Understanding of the credit life cycle
  • Revolving store card or credit card experience advantageous

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Cape Town,

Western Cape:
Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

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