Collections Manager - Front End - Hyderabad

Aditya Birla Group -
Telangana

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Job details

Freelance

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree
Fraud prevention and detection
Communication skills
Negotiation

Full job description

Designation:

Location: India Telangana Quena Square - Secunderabad

Organization: Financial Services

Job Description:

Business

Financial Services

Unit

Aditya Birla Housing Finance Limited

Location

Poornata Position Number of the job

Reports to: Poornata Position Number

Poornata Position Title of the job (30 characters max)

Collections Manager

Reports to: Poornata Position Title

Area Collections Manager

Function

Risk

Reports to: Function

Risk

Department

Housing Finance-Risk

Reports to: Department

Housing Finance-Risk

Designation of the Employee

Collections Manager

Designation of the Manager

Area Collections Manager

Date of writing/updation of JD

07-Jun-23

1) Job Purpose: Write the purpose for which the job exists (in 2-3 lines) (Max 1325 Characters)

To manage the collections process at a location level (usually a Metro or State Capital) or few Tier 2-3 cities, working with non-performing defaulting borrowers to create optimum recovery solutions.

To liaise with in-house and external collections teams and to oversee their activities, ensuring compliance with all internal policies and relevant regulations.

2) Dimensions: Mention quantitative or qualitative parameters that are relevant for the job and provide a better understanding of the scope and scale of the job.

Business Workforce Number
(Max 254 Characters)

Unit Workforce Number
(Max 254 Characters)

Function Workforce Number
(Max 254 Characters)

Department Workforce Number
(Max 254 Characters)

Other Quantitative and Important Parameters for the job: Budgets/ Volumes/No. of Products/Geography/ Markets/ Customers or any other parameter

3) Job Context & Major Challenges: Write the specific aspects of the job that provide a challenge (internal and external) to the jobholder in the context of the Business/Unit/Function/Department/Section ((Max 3975 Characters)

Organizational Context

Key Aspects:

Part of the Aditya Birla Capital Limited, Aditya Birla Housing Finance Limited (ABHFL) is registered with the National Housing Bank as a housing finance company under the National Housing Bank Act, 1987. The company offers a complete range of housing finance solutions such as home loans, home improvement and home construction loans, balance transfer and top-up loans, loans against property and construction finance. The company acquired its license on 9th July 2014 and has aggressive growth plans.
ABHFL has grown at a steady rate while reporting good asset quality despite challenges in the operating environment. While the industry is dominated by five large groups, there has been an emergence of segments like Affordable and self-employed borrowers, given the high potential in these segments. Despite increased focus by banks, HFCs have been able to maintain their share in the mortgage market. and is poised for rapid growth and plans to grow 5X (40,000 Cr) in the next 5 years. This shall take ABHFL within the top 5 percentile of HFCs in the country.
The ABHFL Sales organization works broadly with 3 customer segments – retail (individual) customers, institutional customers (for retail and institutional loan consumers) and builders (for both retail tie-ups and construction finance), with a major share of the business coming from retail customers. Client segments can also be divided into Salaried and Self-employed, with both of these having very different preferences and needs.

Job Context

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.

Key Challenges

To enable enhanced business profitability through the effective management of the delinquent portfolio for Housing Finance for the delinquent portfolio in the City / Cities managed

To achieve the desired collections efficiencies across products managed

Ensure that adequate Collections Intensity of follow up is executed for all Delinquent accounts

Continuously review the location portfolio and report Early Stress Accounts / Potential Delinquent customers to RCM / Head – Collections & RISK team.

Ensure that all Collections Activities are properly documented in the form of Collections Trails

Ensure that all Collections Processes & Risk Governance Mandates rolled out are completely adhered to at each location.

Negotiate on critical delinquent accounts and obtain repayments to minimize losses.

Liaison with Legal / law enforcement agencies for speedy recovery of delinquent/write off cases.

Provide feedback on the effectiveness of Collections Strategies formulated and implemented.

Coordination with legal team for all collections legal cases.

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

Graduate / Post-Graduate

Minimum 6-8 Yrs of experience in related field as Collections Manager / location head. Exposure to Credit and other line function is desirable.

Experience in agencies /vendors management.

An initiator with very high level of energy.

Ability to meticulously plan, initiate and implement collections strategies designed by Central/Regional teams.

Strong interpersonal skills and good team player.

Excellent leadership, Analytical, Negotiation, influencing and communication skills.

Market understanding and collections/Fraud techniques.

4) Key Result Areas: Write the key results expected from the job and the supporting actions for each of these key result areas (For a majority of jobs typically there could be 4- 7 key result areas)- Maximum 10 KRAs can be updated

Key Result Areas (Max 1325 Characters)

Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

Manage the collections process at a Location / City level, streamlining operations and working to minimize the costs of default and bad debt

Monitor customer accounts delinquent in the city / cities managed, identifying and flagging likely cases of default or delayed payment
Work with non-performing\delinquent borrowers to create optimum recovery solutions.
Ensure that all documentation related to the collections process is maintained in accordance with internal norms and regulatory requirements.
Respond to customer complaints regarding the collections process, taking steps to ensure a satisfactory outcome for both ABFL as well as its customers.
Plan and implement periodic audits of the collections teams, ensuring their compliance with all relevant policies and regulations.

Coordinate with the legal team and Middle / Senior management in the event of escalated cases to ensure compliance with relevant regulations.

Liaise with internal and external agencies to drive the collections process in an efficient manner

Review the status of outstanding collections on a periodic basis with vendor collections agencies; plan and implement corrective action to ensure timely collections
Oversee the selection process for external agencies, ensuring adequate training of the collections staff
Liaise with external collections agencies to ensure collection of overdue debts in a timely manner

Liaise with legal / law enforcement authorities on escalated cases to ensure a speedy recovery process

5) Job Purpose of Direct Reports: Describe the job purpose of the direct report/s to the job (in 2-3 lines for each report)

6) Relationships: Describe the nature and purpose of most important contacts or relationship (except superior/team members) with individuals, departments, organizations inside and outside of the organization, that job is required to interact with in order to deliver the job objectives

Relationship Type (Max 80 Characters)

Frequency

Nature (Max 1325 Characters)

Internal

Regional Manager – Collections / Head Collections

Team members in other Risk functions

Operations Team / Underwriting

Legal

Fortnightly & Monthly

Monthly

Weekly

Need Based

Portfolio & Mkt update / Review

New policy formulation, discussions, credit proposals, Market information etc.

Discussion on system updating of Collections Cases, MIS, Bounce details etc.

Discussion on Legal triggers/ status updates on Delinquent accounts

External

Clients, Channel partners

Corporate CRC teams

Legal experts, consultants

Peers in Industry

Daily / Weekly

Need Based

Need Based

Need based

Visits / discussions on portfolio.

Reviews, case updates, exception reporting, etc
Discussion on legal matters, recovery mechanism and updates, etc.

Market intelligence, networking, etc

7) Organizational Relationships: Provide the structure for a level above and below the position for which this job description is written. Use position titles in the structured and indicate all the reports of the position.

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