Investment Officer
Investment, Lagos – Nigeria

Job Description:
The Investment Officer position is responsible for acquiring & managing clients and assessment of the creditworthiness of potential customers, with the goal of optimizing the mix of company sales and bad debt losses.

The successful candidate will also be a highly effective sales leader and also fully capable of closing deals by navigating the partner through all facets of the negotiation process. You will be a senior manager responsible for providing leadership to the investment team and ensuring portfolio growth is obtained.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Corporate Relations: Develop and maintain professional relationships with key contacts in private entities. You are expected to utilize these relationships to create a strong client pipeline for your investment teams and promote Lidya’s initiatives throughout our key markets. Contacts include corporate executives, professional business associations, and other similarly aligned community and business development organizations.
Loan Portfolio Growth: Develop long and short-term strategies and tactics for meeting the Portfolio’s growth targets, primarily loan originations, revenue and profit. Execute your investment team’s plan and strategy, communicate expectations and obligations to the investment team, and monitor and report on performance to optimize the value of the loan portfolio. You will be evaluated on your KPIs and must ensure growth is achieved and non-performing loans are minimized.
Team Management: Manage your investment team in launching, qualifying, and acquiring relationships with clients across relevant sectors including but not limited to companies in the eCommerce, consumer goods, healthcare and financial services industries.
Debt Settlements: Support the Collections team in managing non-performing loans by conducting analysis, and develop and recommend plans to eliminate client debt. Manage past due accounts and determine the appropriate collection action to be taken for clients to ensure non-performing loans are minimized.

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