Branch Credit Officer - Kochi

Sundaram Home Finance; Ernakulam; Presencial; INR 400.000 - 650.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Sundaram Home Finance Limited is hiring a Branch Credit Officer (BCO) to underwrite and process loans, conducting appraisal to assess eligibility and creditworthiness. The role involves reviewing documents, ensuring policy compliance, and coordinating with sales and operations to achieve branch targets.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years of underwriting experience in home loan or related products, with strong analytical and communication skills and proficiency in Excel.

Formación

• Sound understanding of home loan products and lending policies.
• Ability to assess financial statements, ratios, and cash flows.
• Strong communication and client interaction skills.

Responsabilidades

• Credit process management from application to sanction.
• Credit appraisal within guidelines and recommend approvals.
• Interacting with sales team and customers to collect documents.
• Monitor delinquencies and ensure timely reports and disclosures.
• Coordinate with legal/technical teams for due diligence.

Conocimientos

Underwriting

Financial analysis

Communication skills

Excel proficiency

Relationship building

Educación

MBA/CA preferred

Herramientas

MS Excel

Descripción del empleo

Group Company: Sundaram Home Finance Limited

Designation: Branch Credit officer (BCO)

Office Location:PAN India

Position description: Responsible for underwriting and completing the loan processing by conducting appraisal to ascertain the eligibility and credit worthiness

Primary Responsibilities:

Credit process management

• Understanding of credit policy and process thoroughly including the products available
• Completing the loan application process from login to disbursement by collecting all the required documents as well as clarifying requirements with the customer and sales team
• Scrutinizing the documents shared by the customer to check the eligibility and for accuracy/genuineness of the documents to consider the application for loan eligibility
• Credit Appraisal of Loan applications within defined guidelines and accordingly take decision or recommend for approval to higher authorities.
• Under writing cases with desired level of quality and enabling achievement of Branch Business target by proper training.
• Conduct personal discussion with customers to establish Credit worthiness.
• Use performance history along with financial analysis, liquidity, debt/asset management and profitability ratios to assess creditworthiness in evaluation.
• Interact with Customers & understand the business and regularly monitor delinquencies.
• Decision making within defined TAT
• Understanding of property/collateral related knowledge (like legal title and market value of the property)
• Credit underwriting on the customer to make sure that customer fits into various lending parameters.
• Identifying strengths and risks for any proposal and prepare a SWOT analysis around it.
• Regularly interacting with the FI agency, Legal, Technical team, RCU team for timely reports.
• Coordinating with Operations team for disbursement
• Ensuring maintenance of TAT for the application for processing and delivering sanction letters
• Preparing, managing and providing information/queries on application status pertaining to WIP / sanction files.
• Handling audit queries and providing clarifications
• Ensuring zero tolerance to non-compliances by adhering to organizational procedures as well as NHB and other regulatory authorities
• Completing the loan application process from login to disbursement by collecting all the required documents as well as clarifying requirements with the customer and sales team
• Developing notes for management reviews and recommendation as deemed necessary

Others

• Any other tasks which will be required to be performed from time to time as per the instructions

Reporting Team

• Reporting Designation:Zonal Credit Manager
• Category:Graduate, MBA/CA preferred
• Field specialization:MBA/CA

Required work experience:

• Years of experience: 2+ years of experience in underwriting home loan/non home loan/construction finance products/related companies

Key Performance Indicators:

Required Skills:

• Sound understanding of home loan products in the industry
• Market understanding including products/policies of competitors
• Proficient in underwriting
• Excellent analytical skills including understanding/interpreting financials
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) with a reasonable proficiency in the local language
• Proven ability to develop and manage networking/relationship internally and externally
• Working experience in using excel/spreadsheets