SENIOR INVESTMENT OFFICER
SENIOR INVESTMENT OFFICER
Category: Finance
Company: INKOMOKO(LODWAR)
Posted on: Mar 28, 2025
3 weeks ago
Description
THE OPPORTUNITY & RESPONSIBILITIES
-Inkomoko Kenya Senior Investment Officer is responsible for the items below:
Due diligence and Contracts preparation (40%)
- -Respond to inquiries from prospective borrowers, support them to apply for our loan products.
- -Introduce the loan products to entrepreneurs, explaining the requirements for repayment and the
- seriousness of taking on debt financing.
- -Introduce the loan products to SMEs, Refugees and host community entrepreneurs,
- -Conduct due diligence on prospective borrowers, including site visits, document preparation,
- coordination with the Business Development Associate, etc.
- -Communicate all materials to the Loan manager and Portfolio Director and assist in preparing credit
- reports for Investment Committee meetings.
- -Take photos of entrepreneurs, have them sign photo waivers, and post their stories on Kiva platform.
Portfolio management (20%)
- -I'd appreciate it if you could offer outstanding customer service through daily conversations, correspondence, and site visits as needed to maintain strong positive relationships with borrowers.
- -Work with African Entrepreneur Collective to ensure borrower success and Visit clients for monitoring.
- -Track information about borrowers and communicate effectively with key stakeholders about client
- Status. Actively participate as a key staff in the weekly Portfolio Review Meeting.
- -Maintain a tracking system of borrower payments and contact information.
- -Interact with government leaders, cot. Jrt system, refugee's and host communities' stakeholders and others for follow up on lack of payments.
- Work with the Finance & Admin Director/Accountant to reconcile the lending transactions.
- Ensure that we are adhering to the requirements of our Kiva, BNR, CRB and other regulatory entities.
- Detailed knowledge of lending products
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor
Loan Management System (20% time)
- Maintain and demonstrate proficiency with loan software applications
- Work with system providers to utilize applications to fullest capacity, streamlining processes and procedures, ensuring accuracy and compliance
- Assist with system parameters and design to meet the needs of multiple departments.
- Manage user security access.
- Direct loan input (system boarding) and verification procedures for all loans.
- Ensure proper segregation of duties, develop and maintain workflows for all stages of loan input.
- Advise the Management team how to automate key lending processes.
- Supervise all aspects of the loan operations. This supervision includes posting of payment, payoffs, and balancing, disbursing loan funds.
- Ensure lending staff is provided with updates and procedural changes.
- Participates in the review and recommendations of operational systems and procedures.
- Successfully interact with lending staff to improve accuracy and efficiencies of Loan management system
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor
- Ensure all staff under your supervision are compliant with organizational HR policies, credit policy and implement disciplinary actions when they are not.
- Be a good ambassador in ensuring the organizational culture is understood and followed through by all staff under your supervision.
- Represent the company in a highly professional manner in stakeholders' and government meetings and events in the absence of a Loan manager.
- Acting the loan manager in his absence.
- Elevate important trends, risks, and other notable activities to management.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR;
Investment officer will be a trusted partner of Inkomoko Kenya clients, and basic qualifications Include:
- University degree in Finance or other related field
- Must speak fluent English and Swahili. Knowledge of other local languages is a plus
- Experience in group savings and group lending investments is preferred
- Experience in Islamic lending and practice is STRONGLY PREFERRED
- Strong financial and accounting skills; familiarity with business financial policies in Kenya
- Experience in investment management, microfinance, capital leases, and access to finance for
- Micro businesses and SMEs is STRONGLY preferred
- Prior experience dealing with customers/debt
- Prior experience in a lending environment
- Experience providing business advice to entrepreneurs
- Prior experience in Investment management system software
- Decisive individuals with ability to deliver unpleasant messages to the debtors and assertive enough to get the debtors pay off the entire debt
- Experience in managing difficult clients and reaching positive outcomes
- Very strong attention to details and good follow through
- Comfort with the civil court system, and previous experience in litigation preferred
- -Unrelenting perseverance, personal integrity, and critical thinking skills
- - 4+ years of work experience in relevant or applicable field
- Must be able to legally work in Kenya.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Inkomoko on inkomoko.bamboohr.com to apply