General Manager: Legal Recoveries and Insolvency

7 days ago

Pretoria, South Africa PreBless Group Full time

**ROLE OVERVIEW**

To design, implement and manage an end-to-end legal recoveries capability that is recognised as a valuable and strategic function of the Company. The function should maximise cost-effective recoveries, supporting retail and business and corporate banking strategy. Maintains acceptable Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) percentage in relation to the loan book.

**QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**
- LLB degree or equivalent
- Admission as on attorneys is a requirement
- 8years experience in legal recoveries / debt collection environment, preferably in a bank at the senior management level
- 8 years experience in restructuring of distressed accounts
- Legislation
- Policies and Procedures
- Business Environment
- Recovery Process
- Risk Management
- Understanding of Insolvency and business rescue legislation and practises in South Africa
- Systems (SAP, ICT)

**KEY PORTFOLIO AND PERFORMANCE FOCUS AREAS**
- ** Legal and Solvency Strategy development and overseeing the legal recovery process including insolvency and debt collection**:

- In alignment to the corporate plan develops, implements and maintains the legal recovery and insolvency strategies to maximise recoveries and minimise NPLSs
- Manage various functions within Legal Recoveries in order to maximise cost effective recoveries.
- Determine what right-off is appropriate and is in the best interest of the Company.
- Develop, implement and enforce right-off processes and related policies.
- Manage and monitor the matters that are referred to attorneys and debt collectors as well as for liquidation
- Manage the insolvency process including validation of claims and liquidation of them and distribution accounts
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of the attorneys.
- Identify effective risk controls and put proper risk control assessment in place and reviewed annually

**Management of stakeholder relations**
- Oversee and manage the flow of relevant information to best inform stakeholders as to the status of the portfolio or individual clients within the portfolio
- Where appropriate generate feedback to stakeholders to improve future risk decisions and ensure past mistakes are prevented
- Drives stakeholder alignment and satisfaction utilising sound stakeholder management techniques
- Maintain relationships with external service providers (attorneys; debt collectors, etc.) and handle their queries timeously.
- Maintain relationships with clients.
- Maintain relationships with the relevant government departments (DRDLR, DAAF, etc.)
- Maintains good communication and reporting lines with branches.
- Produces monitoring reports
- ** Reporting and information systems**
- Manco reporting detailed reports on amounts recovered and NPLS as well as cost effectiveness
- Credit Risk operations (CROM) reporting identifying and highlighting from a recoveries and NPL perspective
- Exco reporting high level reporting on overall recoveries and NPLs as well as high value litigation matters
- Coordinates and collates information required for sustainability reporting.
- ** Manage land claims and Bought-In properties**:

- Track all claims to ensure that maximum recovery takes place
- Engagement with land claims department and Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) to ensure speedy resolution of land claim related cases
- Negotiate and finalise sale agreements for land claim properties
- Manage and maintain Bought in properties (security, fire breaks, insurance etc.)
- Manages effective disposal of Bought in Properties by the Bank (website with all properties)
- ** Departmental and People Management**
- Analyse the business plan to determine the applicable deliverables and targets
- Conduct performance planning session and Track and monitor performance in accordance with performance contracts
- Conduct performance reviews in accordance with policies and procedures and take corrective actions where necessary
- Provide coaching and feedback to employees on how to improve and sustain their performance

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