Underwriting Strategist at the Concept Group

The Concept Group is a holding company for companies established in 1992. Subsidiaries under the Group include: Rosabon Financial Services - Nigeria’s Leading Financial Intermediary and Equipment Leasing Company, Concept Nova - Bespoke Enterprise IT Solutions Company,Percy Aitkins - Bureau De Change.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Underwriting Strategist

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The Underwriting Strategist is responsible for continuously building and developing underwriting strategies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop strategies to determine loan risk and customer behavioral trends.
• Ability to articulate the underwriting process into actionable pieces of information that can be leveraged by the underwriters.
• Develop, build and prioritize risk into classes.
• Develop strategies that can enable risk control.
• Develop a strong analysis framework that will guide the underwriting process.
• Ability to detect and understand competitive differentiators that make the difference from other processes.
• Ability to balance the act between profitability and growth for the organization.
• Build a well-defined strategy and process for underwriters to understand carrier appetite when
• underwriting high-risk profiles.
• Build clearly a defined business structure for proper decision making.
• Ability to build and develop processes that can align the goal and focus of the business.

Job Knowledge

• B.Sc in Finance, Accounting, or any relevant field.
• The ideal candidate should have 2 years and above experience with a financial background.
• A knack for figures and passionate about analysis and process optimization.
• In-depth knowledge of IFRS principles and changes.

Skills and Competencies:

• High standards of accuracy &precision with excellent organizational skills
• High proficiency level in excel.
• Ability to effectively lead and direct a team and drive developed strategies.

Application Closing Date
6th June, 2021.