Organization Context
Aditya Birla Finance Limited ("ABFL") is a lending subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Limited. ABFL is registered with RBI as a Systematically Important Non-Deposit accepting Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC). ABFL is one of the top private diversified NBFCs in India. ABFL is one of the top private diversified NBFCs in India operating with several hundred of branches across India.
ABFL offers end-to-end lending solutions to a diverse set of customers - Retail, HNI, MSMEs, and Mid & Large Corporates through secured as well as unsecured loan products. The diverse range of lending products includes Retail Small Ticket Secured and Unsecured Loans, Unsecured Personal Loans, Unsecured Business Loans, Health & Education Loans, Digital B2B2C and B2B2B Small Ticket Loans, Small Business Secured Loans, Loans Against Property (LAP), Lease Rental Discounting (LRD), Construction Finance (to Real Estate Developers), SME Loans, Capital Markets Loans (Loan Against Shares), Supply Chain Finance, Mid and Large Corporate Loans, and Infrastructure Finance loans. ABFL also has a Wealth Management division.
ABFL is rated “AAA” by India Ratings, ICRA and CARE (reaffirmed in 2020). ABFL secured the ABG Business Excellence Award in 2017 (Silver), and 2015 (Bronze), and multiple other Awards on forums like CII
Business Context:
The Risk and Compliance function is engaged in evaluating the creditworthiness of the loan applications for CMG, CFG, SME and Mortgage lending divisions considering the quantitative & qualitative factors like ownership, size & market presence of the client business, capital adequacy, collateral quality, earnings quality, liquidity, management quality & client credibility & adherence to statutory requirements.
The Risk & Compliance is engaged in formulating credit risk policies for all ABFL businesses, carries out risk assessment of credit proposals, obtains credit decisions from Credit Committees, monitors credit exposure and carries out recovery of over dues. It formulates risk policies in association with Central Risk, ABFSG for overall risk management in ABFL.
Credit / Loan proposals prepared by Business Credit team are critically analyzed from credit risk perspective and the proposals along with Risk Assessment Sheet are put up to Credit Committee for approval. While carrying out critical evaluation of the credit proposal the function also carries out evaluation of the risk mitigants in the credit proposal like the nature and the quality of the collateral, adequacy of the collateral, acceptability of the collateral given the regulatory and the compliance needs.
The Risk & Compliance function carries out monitoring of client wise exposure and portfolio exposure to identify ‘early warning signals’ of stress and to minimize NPAs. Currently monitoring is done in association with Business Teams as RMG does not have presence at Branch level. It carries out over due loan recovery from defaulting clients in coordination with Business Teams.
Job Context:
The Legal department would validate the regulatory & compliance requirements for the new business initiatives and product launches, conclude the litigations raised by or against the company, establish a sound corporate governance framework, execute legal agreements and provide transactional support in the investment processes.
Within Legal department, Litigation team would need to support collections team in initiating appropriate legal actions in the delinquent account in order to create avenues of early resolution and to do the things incidental to utilization of such nuances.
Challenges:
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Keeping abreast of the latest legal/statutory amendments, knowledge about various legal documents & liaising with multiple regulators
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Strong negotiation and arbitration skills, knowledge of agreement formulation & statutory regulations
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Detailed & process orientation & strong network.
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Management of collections litigation for taking it to logical conclusion.