The Senior Manager – Co-Lending Operations will own the end-to-end operational execution of the co-lending business, ensuring that loans originated under the RBI's Co-Lending Model (CLM-I and CLM-II) with partner Banks, NBFCs, HFCs, and Fintechs are processed accurately, disbursed on time, and serviced in full compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Loan Operations & Processing
- Manage the complete lifecycle of co-lent loans — application intake, KYC/de-dupe, credit decisioning handoff, sanction, documentation, disbursement, and post-disbursement servicing.
- Ensure adherence to agreed SLAs/TATs for login, underwriting handover, sanction, and disbursement across all partner programs.
- Review and sign off on daily disbursement files, partner share allocations (typically 80:20 under CLM-II), and ensure correct booking in the Loan Management System (LMS).
- Drive first-time-right (FTR) processing and minimize rejections, reworks, and deviations.
Partner Integration & Onboarding
- Lead the operational onboarding of new co-lending partners — process design, data-flow mapping, UAT, pilot, and go-live.
- Collaborate with IT and product teams on API integrations for loan origination (LOS), disbursement, EMI collection, and data exchange with partners.
- Document and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), process maps, and checklists for every partner program.
Settlement, Escrow & Reconciliation
- Oversee daily/weekly/monthly reconciliation of disbursements, collections, fees, and partner share settlements with Banks/NBFCs.
- Manage escrow/nodal account operations, including fund movements, sweep instructions, and settlement timelines as per agreement.
- Ensure zero unreconciled items beyond agreed ageing; drive automated reconciliation tools and exception management.
Servicing, Collections Support & Customer Operations
- Manage post-disbursement servicing including EMI presentation, NACH/e-mandate management, restructuring, foreclosure, and loan closure processes.
- Coordinate with the Collections team for bounce management, pool-wise delinquency data, and partner-level collections MIS.
- Ensure customer service SLAs — query resolution, NOC issuance, statement of account, and complaint handling — are met across partners.
Compliance, Audit & Risk Controls
- Ensure operational compliance with RBI Co-Lending guidelines, KYC/AML norms, Fair Practices Code, Digital Lending Guidelines, and data-sharing/privacy regulations.
- Own responses to internal audit, concurrent audit, partner audit, and RBI inspections for the co-lending book.
- Maintain a control framework — maker-checker, access controls, 4-eye principle — across all operational processes.
- Track operational risk events, root-cause them, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
MIS, Analytics & Reporting
- Publish daily, weekly, and monthly operational dashboards — login, sanction, disbursement, TAT, rejection, FTR, reconciliation, and partner-wise performance.
- Provide management and partners with timely and accurate MIS, regulatory returns inputs, and ad-hoc analytical reports.
- Use data to identify process bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Team & Stakeholder Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of operations executives, reconciliation specialists, MIS analysts, and partner coordinators.
- Act as the operational single point of contact for partner institutions' ops, tech, and audit teams.
- Work cross-functionally with Credit, Risk, Legal, Compliance, IT, Product, Finance, and Collections teams.
- Disbursement TAT and SLA adherence (partner-wise and product-wise).
- First-Time-Right (FTR) percentage on files and disbursement packets.
- Reconciliation accuracy and ageing of open items (target: zero items beyond agreed ageing).
- Settlement timeliness with partners (nil delays/penalties).
- Audit rating — internal, concurrent, partner, and regulatory.
- Customer service SLA adherence and complaint resolution TAT.
- Process automation coverage and cost per loan processed.
- Team productivity, attrition, and training coverage.