Debt Recovery Manager at Talentpool Nigeria

TalentPool is Nigeria's emerging human capital solutions company providing a wide range of human capital and business support solutions to businesses. We work with our clients to provide bespoke solutions and hiring that addresses core human capital challenges through talent search, training, background checks, payroll management and outsourcing.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Debt Recovery Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are looking for a Collection Manager to oversee our organization’s financial collection department.
• The major duty is to supervise staff to ensure all money owed to the company is billed and received correctly and in a timely fashion.

Job Description

• Oversee the business’ collections department
• Supervise collections team to ensure all loan repayments are made in a timely fashion
• Be involved in interviews for new members of the collections team
• Train and retrain new collections team members
• Performance management and evaluation of the collections team
• Ensure that all company policies regarding loans collections are adhered to by the collections team
• Negotiate loan repayment plans where necessary
• Minimize company’s financial losses from bad loans
• Report the collection department’s progress and statistics
• Present collections performance information to management or their department to highlight trends or achievements.
• Handle escalated delinquent accounts
• Motivate staff accordingly.

Job Specification

• A Degree in a related field with minimum second class lower grade; A Master's Degree is a plus
• Minimum of four years progressive work experience in a similar role, with at least one (1 year) on a managerial or supervisory level in a closely related fin-tech loan company.
• Strong leadership skills
• Knowledge of high volume collections, credit authorization and billing procedures and practice
• Highly proficient in computer software programs such as, word processors, spreadsheet programs and database systems
• Strong data analysis and arithmetic skills.

Application Closing Date
30th April, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@talentpool.com.ng using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.