Group Credit Risk Director - Financial Services / Payments - North West / Midlands

Company: Asset Finance International
Location: Midland
Posted on: March 16, 2023

Job Description:

Written by Louise Clavey Published: 21 February 2023 Created: 21 February 2023 -150,000 TO -200,000 p.a. plus LTIP, bonus, car, pension and healthcare.Our client is a global leader in financial services with a product range which extends across fuel cards, telematics, insurance, telecoms, leasing and e-mobility.Due to ongoing growth our client is looking for a high profile credit risk professional to lead the Group's credit function nationally and internationally.Responsibilities:

• Leading the Group's centralised credit department encompassing all areas of operational performance, setting the vision and strategy, defining policy and setting risk appetite, building the credit systems roadmap, creating a high performance culture, supporting people development, managing the budgets and delivering financial results.
• Accountable for a significant budget with a large headcount in the UK and across 12 countries in total.
• Defining the target operating model for credit, establishing the roadmap and continually refining this to meet the needs of the business.
• Direct line management of two Credit Directors and a team across Credit Modelling, Analytics and Insight and six further Heads of Credit.
• Leading the people agenda including recruitment and retention, succession, recognition and reward, training and performance management.
• Credit data accountability - credit decisioning is used to provide operational scalability for smaller value customers - for larger more complex customers there is a more bespoke credit management process.
• Arrears management and monitoring.The target candidate:
  • Proven at a senior level within credit risk from within banking, payments, lending or some other similar B2B or financial services environment.
  • Experience in the leadership of large teams and driving excellent results within a credit function.
  • End to end credit risk experience including credit underwriting, collections / recoveries.
  • Forecast management and bad debt provisioning.
  • Experience of working in a regulated environment would be an advantage.

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