Commercial Manager
Commercial Manager
Role is withing and international footprint in the Automotive Sector within: Finance Space: Credit/Collection
- Responsible for the review and approval of commercial credit proposals and to maintain a good balance between returns and risks exposure, defining limit of credit exposure based on financial assessments.
- Leads a team of credit approvers to ensure high standard credit quality of the portfolio by using various credit assessment tools
- Engage in the development, implementation, review and monitoring of various credit programs and providing training and coaching to continuously upgrade the competency of the team members
- Review and develop credit approval policies and guidelines as well as participate in ad hoc projects of investigative or trouble-shooting nature on specific customer portfolio
- Ensure debt recovery procedures are fully effective and all available recovery options are utilized to maximize recovery outcomes. Manage any ‘extreme’ credit control situations
- Monitor credit granting process, including the consistent application of a credit policy, periodic credit reviews of existing customers, and the assessment of the creditworthiness of potential customers, with the goal of optimizing the mix of company sales and bad debt losses.
- Ensure compliance to company policy and submitting of various monthly financial and management reports and data
- Maintain a department organizational structure sufficient to meet all goals and objective, Measure department performance with appropriate metrics
- Must have excellent communication and inter-personal skills
- High level understanding of retail finance is crucial
- Must have experience in credit risk and collection management.
Commerce or Finance Graduate.
Preferable MBABetween 8-10 yrs of experience (overall)Relationship building
Communication &Interpersonal skills
Presentation skills.
Credit & Risk management