Senior Manager, Credit Risk

Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and registered in Malaysia. We are backed by Sequoia India and Softbank Ventures Asia Corp amongst many others and provide business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is crowdfunded by individual and institutional investors.

And here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values:

• Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
• Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
• Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
• Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.
• Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.

This role will be responsible for overseeing the company’s credit and risk matters, ensuring that all credit-related activities are in compliance with both internal policies and external regulatory requirements; including credit underwriting, operations, and collection activities.

What will you do:

• Implement and ensure customer selection and acceptance framework to be within the acceptable credit decisioning framework and in compliance with internal and external guidelines/procedures/limits.
• Identify emerging and material risks within product portfolio and provide recommendations and solutions to Management team on credit & recovery risk portfolio management.
• Provide subject matter expert recommendations, advice, input/counsel to relevant stakeholders inclusive of Business Unit, Credit & Risk Committees or Management, as and when needed.
• Provide feedback and guidance on the best practices and advise on acceptable structure of financing applications to business unit.
• Develop, enhance and monitor the performance of the credit scoring systems and statistical models in credit decision.
• Manage and monitor the efficacy of credit policies, procedures, and supporting mechanisms in controlling credit risk and making appropriate credit-related recommendations.

What are we looking for:

• Minimum 7 years of experience in credit (underwriting & operations).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to analyse and interpret credit and repayment data.
• Ability to execute and drive projects to completion in a timely manner.
• Experience in handling SME portfolio.
• Strong knowledge of lending principles and credit management in Financial Service environment.
• Knowledge and experience in financial product development.
• Experience in managing a team and work collaboratively with cross-functional/department team members across the company.
• Performance-driven and ability to work under pressure to meet targets.