Loans Manager

To manage the teams responsible for the on-boarding processes of all IDC and Partnership Programs funding transactions for various financial products, both local and international (e.g., loans, equity, grants, guarantees, etc.) and ensures the successful achievement of the full administration lifecycle of those transactions, within IDC’s policies and processes, while mitigating associated operational risks.

Oversee the implementation of the funding and financing agreements concluded by international finance, ensuring the management of the foreign costing risk is geared to achieve financial sustainability.

Mentor and management of the teams to deliver best
- in
- class administration and transaction management to the various functions within IDC and the Partnership Programs teams.
**Qualification and Experience** Qualification**
- Appropriate post-graduate accounting qualification and completed articles, CA(SA) or CIMA.

Knowledge & Skills
- A minimum of 8 - 10 years’ relevant work experience - 5+ years’ experience in managing a team.
- Experience in 3rd party Loan’s origination, management and reporting.
- A sound knowledge of IDC loans processes would be an added advantage.
- SAP system experience preferably in Loans Management CML Module.
- Microsoft suite.
- Broad financial knowledge including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects.
- Ability to build, develop & lead professional level teams.
- Detail orientation and ability to analyse numerical data.
- High level of accuracy
- Good time management skills and the ability to perform under pressure
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to liaise and engage with both internal and external clients.
- Must exhibit high professional standards and work ethic.

**Roles and Responsibilities**
- Timeous, efficient and accurate disbursement of the Loans in support of the business to achieve its strategic objectives.
- Value - add support to the business in the fulfillment of the Loans disbursements targets.
- Review of the accuracy of the maintenance of master data captured on SAP and overall data integrity related to the Loans team functions.
- Maintenance of open communication channels with key stakeholders, pre-empting bottlenecks and resolving these in time to meet set disbursements timelines.
- Participation in key meetings relating to Loans disbursements and creating adequate controls and measures to ensure delivery on the loans pipeline.
- Strategic planning in the loans section to achieve weekly and annual targets.
- Checking and authorising manual entries.
- Authorising and posting journals.
- Authorisation of settlement figures.
- Management of deferrals and restructurings of client accounts.
- Management of debit order collections.
- Assistance with information on legal and collection matters.
- Addressing escalated internal and external client queries.
- Driving and executing month end close process by incorporating appropriate internal control procedures.
- Executing year-end procedures for inclusion in annual report, including various reporting requests from the FM reporting accountants.
- Consulting on transactions as required by business on an ad hoc basis.
- Attending to Internal and External Auditor engagements and findings.
- Responsible for carrying out tender procedures on an ad-hoc basis.
- Management of Foreign Loan functionality
- Service delivery management and service improvement.
- Numerous routine and ad-hoc support functions.
- Compliance to financial and funding agreements
- Input to broad spectrum of agreements negotiated and concluded by international finance
- Implement, maintain and enhance internal control systems and procedures
- To facilitate foreign currency payments categorised outside the normal IDC SARB approvals
- Participate in and provide information to ALCO committees (management information reporting)
- Reporting to SARB, DTI and National Treasury, inclusive of balance of payments, foreign currency exposure, government guarantees and other financial information in terms of foreign currency borrowing and financial transactions
- Ensure completeness of diaries for payments, interest and fees.
- Clear and sign all payments, drawdowns, correspondences, and reports
- Ensure compliance with Loans given/taken Agreements
- Address and resolve responses, confirmations and queries relating to SWIFT
- Management of CFC accounts in conjunction with Treasury/ALM - Treasury query
- Balance TB & GL for loans taken Kelello to check
- Management of Draw downs, repayments, interest rate management, monitoring compliance to financial agreements
- Issuing of legal documents for defaulting clients in conjunction with SBU’s, CS&G and Legal

**Customer Service**
- Maintain good business relationships with both internal and external stakeholders (SBU’s, lenders, borrowers, importers and local banks).
- Supply SBU’s with information of clients for various committees and IMC (investment mon