Organization Context:
Aditya Birla Capital Limited. ABCL is registered with RBI as a Systematically Important Non-Deposit accepting Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC). ABCL is one of the top private diversified NBFCs in India. As of 31-Mar’25, ABCL has a pan-India presence with 450 branches and a lending book of Rs. 1.2 Lack Crores.
ABCL 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. ABCL also has a Wealth Management division.
ABCL is rated “AAA” by India Ratings, ICRA and CARE (reaffirmed in 2020). ABCL secured the ABG Business Excellence Award in 2017 (Silver), and 2015 (Bronze), and multiple other Awards on forums like CII.
Business Context:
The Credit Function at ABCL plays a pivotal role in enabling responsible retail lending across a vast and diverse geographical footprint. With over 420 branches covering 12,500+ pincodes, the team supports exponential customer growth driven by both direct channels and lending service partnerships. This expansion demands robust credit evaluation and risk management capabilities. To meet the scale and speed of operations, the department has embraced advanced technology, including new APIs, STPs, Go-No-Go frameworks, and BREs under the Lentra Revamp Project, enabling faster turnaround and data-driven decisions. Analytics and data science are deeply embedded in underwriting, leveraging predictive models based on personal, financial, demographic, and bureau data.
The Credit team also supports digital sourcing, especially in Supply Chain Finance, and is aligned with ABFL’s strategy to penetrate Tier 3 to Tier 5 cities, ensuring financial inclusion. With new growth areas like Education Loans and Two-Wheeler Financing, the function is central to ABFL’s mission of expanding its retail loan bouquet across India’s urban and emerging markets.
As part of a top-tier NBFC with AAA credit ratings and ?1.30 lakh crore AUM, the Credit Function must navigate regulatory changes, manage credit costs, and maintain portfolio quality while supporting the company’s role in India’s journey toward a USD 5 trillion economy. The role demands collaboration across Sales, Risk, and Operations to ensure efficient credit delivery and sound portfolio management
Job Context
Area Technical Manager role is an integral part of the Risk & compliance & is responsible for carrying out due diligence for the underlying security i.e. Real Estate Property and ensure that all information required to take a credit decision w.r.t. real estate property be provided to higher management. He is also responsible for maintaining TAT. The key aspect of due diligence is that underlying security i.e. real estate properties are compliant with local statutory norms & regulations & falls under acceptable norms as per ABCL as well as RBI. He is also responsible for providing and keeping updates about changes happening in statutory rules & regulations related real estate properties, real estate property rate movements, demand-supply analysis, impacts of economic changes on real estate property etc. In all he has to provide inputs related to real estate property to higher management which will help them in decision making to improvise TATs of the overall sanction process.
Challenges
The major challenges to this profile include
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Cross functional coordination to enable timely approval of proposals
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Self updation on economic / sectoral changes in the economy
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Improvising on TAT
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Customer Satisfaction: Internal as well as external customer satisfaction.
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Vendor Management: Seamless co-ordination with external entities.
The critical skill sets are a strong analytical acumen, evaluation skills, detail orientation & decision making skills, initiative & target orientation & market intelligence developed through a strong industry network.
The education & experience required to fulfil this profile are a Civil Engineer with minimum 7 – 10 yrs of experience. Total experience should be of good mix of construction as well as valuation. Valuation experience with Banks or NBFCs is preferably.
