ABHFL - Area Collections Manager - Front End - Noida

ABC - Aditya Birla Housing Finance Limited; Uttar Pradesh; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

ABC - Aditya Birla Housing Finance Limited is seeking a senior collections leader to drive area targets, monitor delinquency, and minimize losses. You will ensure headcount adequacy by location and segment, and oversee timely recoveries while controlling costs.

The role includes portfolio review, vendor management, compliance, handling escalations with legal and management, and coaching the team through trainings to sustain a healthy collections ecosystem across the region.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and Control delinquency and minimize credit losses for portfolio
• Drive higher resolution rates.
• Ensuring adequate headcount availability location-wise / bucket-wise / segment-wise.
• Ensure Charge offs are minimized and higher recoveries from charge-off accounts.
• Review, maintain control and minimize the cost incurred towards collections of dues.
• Daily monitoring and regular reviews of delinquent portfolio to make account level
• Monitor customer accounts across the region, identifying and flagging likely cases of default or delayed payment
• Work with non-performing defaulting borrowers to create optimum recovery solutions
• Developing various MISs to show different cuts and trends in the portfolio which can lead to necessary corrective action by collections team to enhance their performance and shows area of improvement.
• Provide regular inputs to Management and all the other stakeholders such as Sales, Risk, Policy Team on various aspects of collections resolution and delinquency trends, Negative Areas, Negative Profile, Non-Starters, SKIPs, Fraud Cases, etc.
• Liaise with agencies to drive collections processes efficiently.
• Oversee selection processes for externa agencies
• Continuously monitor agency performance
• Exercise adequate control on agencies to ensure collection of overdue debts in a timely manner
• Ensure that all documentation related to the collections process is maintained in accordance with internal norms and regulatory requirements
• Respond to customer complaints regarding the collections process, taking steps to ensure a satisfactory outcome for both ABFL as well as its customers
• Plan and implement periodic audits of the collections teams, ensuring their compliance with all relevant policies and regulations
• Coordinate with the legal team and senior management in the event of escalated cases to ensure compliance with relevant regulations
• Provide oversight and be a coach and mentor for the team
• Ensure regular functional & behavioral trainings of team members in collaboration with HR
• Participate in relevant talent management and people development activities to ensure a healthy pipeline and an engaged team

Job description

Key Result Areas

Supporting Actions

Achieve collections targets and financial goals for the area

• Monitor and Control delinquency and minimize credit losses for portfolio
• Drive higher resolution rates.
• Ensuring adequate headcount availability location-wise / bucket-wise / segment-wise.
• Ensure Charge offs are minimized and higher recoveries from charge-off accounts.
• Review, maintain control and minimize the cost incurred towards collections of dues.
• Daily monitoring and regular reviews of delinquent portfolio to make account level

Portfolio review and monitoring

• Monitor customer accounts across the region, identifying and flagging likely cases of default or delayed payment
• Work with non-performing defaulting borrowers to create optimum recovery solutions
• Developing various MISs to show different cuts and trends in the portfolio which can lead to necessary corrective action by collections team to enhance their performance and shows area of improvement.
• Provide regular inputs to Management and all the other stakeholders such as Sales, Risk, Policy Team on various aspects of collections resolution and delinquency trends, Negative Areas, Negative Profile, Non-Starters, SKIPs, Fraud Cases, etc.

Vendor Management

• Liaise with agencies to drive collections processes efficiently.
• Oversee selection processes for externa agencies
• Continuously monitor agency performance
• Exercise adequate control on agencies to ensure collection of overdue debts in a timely manner

Compliance and audit

• Ensure that all documentation related to the collections process is maintained in accordance with internal norms and regulatory requirements
• Respond to customer complaints regarding the collections process, taking steps to ensure a satisfactory outcome for both ABFL as well as its customers
• Plan and implement periodic audits of the collections teams, ensuring their compliance with all relevant policies and regulations

Customer escalations and complaints

• Coordinate with the legal team and senior management in the event of escalated cases to ensure compliance with relevant regulations

People Management

• Provide oversight and be a coach and mentor for the team
• Ensure regular functional & behavioral trainings of team members in collaboration with HR
• Participate in relevant talent management and people development activities to ensure a healthy pipeline and an engaged team