Portfolio Risk Analyst at The Concept Group

The genesis of The Concept Group was initially borne from a functional and structural approach, simply delivering better effectiveness through shared services of back office functions for its more market facing organizations. As the organization grew, the Group along with its member subsidiaries have evolved to embody much more. As a tested guiding light, our core values which we passionately uphold give us a sense of purpose and direction not only in our professional but in our private lives also. These values summarized are based on three pillars; (Great) People, (Continuous) Innovation and the (Ideal) Culture.
Job Description

The Portfolio Risk Analyst examines and analyzes the mix of company loan product activities, with the purpose of making decisions that are expected to improve overall return.
He/she is primarily tasked with conducting detailed portfolio analysis and reports on loan and lease portfolio to anticipate, identify and mitigate credit risk exposure related to portfolio management activities in the organization.
He/she will be grossly responsible for offering risk management analysis on business portfolio and research into business expertise area.
The Portfolio Risk Analyst will determine risks and opportunities within credit portfolio processes and strategy, conduct risk analysis, track trends, understand risks associated with all product portfolios and create corresponding reports on projects, documenting same accordingly to present to senior management.
He/she is also responsible for overseeing the credit collection unit, ensuring that appropriate steps are taken to collects payments on debts, all payments data are well recorded and subsequently, using the generated data to the perform the necessary analysis and provide corresponding reports.

Responsibilities

Analyses transactional risk measures including defaults, 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 analytics of portfolio performance, emerging trends and areas of opportunity.
Prepares comprehensive report on all repossessed lease assets identifying principal outstanding, loan-assetvalue, 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.
Responsible for compiling and evaluating information needed to collect delinquent accounts, supervise field collections and perform other collection duties as required.

Requirements

A Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
Advanced degrees, certifications and/or professional membership will be an added advantage
Minimum of 2 years working in similar field, with cognitive experience as a Portfolio risk Analyst.
Good understanding of industry laws and regulations
Excellent organizational and leadership skills
Ability to present and communicate analysis and recommendations
Ability to measure financial data to evaluate financial performance and position.