Lead Risk Manager & Portfolio Owner
FairMoney is a pioneering mobile banking institution specializing in extending credit to emerging markets. Established in 2017, the company currently operates primarily within Nigeria, and it has secured nearly €50 million in funding from renowned global investors, including Tiger Global, DST, and Flourish Ventures.
In alignment with its vision, FairMoney is actively constructing the foremost mobile banking platform and point-of-sale (POS) solution tailored for emerging markets. The journey began with the introduction of a digital microcredit application exclusively available on Android and iOS devices. Today, FairMoney has significantly expanded its range of services, encompassing a comprehensive suite of financial products, such as current accounts, savings accounts, debit cards, and state-of-the-art POS solutions designed to meet the needs of both merchants and agents. FairMoney thrives on its diverse workforce, bringing together talent from over 27 nationalities. This multicultural team drives the company’s mission of reshaping financial services for underserved communities. To gain deeper insights into FairMoney ’s pivotal role in reshaping Africa’s financial landscape, we invite you to watch informative video.
The role
We are hiring a Lead Risk Manager & Portfolio Owner to run FairMoney ’s Android Quick Loans portfolio in Nigeria. Android is a mature, high-volume and strategically important lending portfolio. This is a mini-CEO role for the portfolio : you will be the delegated day-to-day owner of its commercial, economic, risk and people outcomes.
Job Description
Portfolio economics and business planning
- Own Android revenue, sustainable Gross Loan Book growth, risk-adjusted Gross Profit, economic profit and credit-risk performance
- Build and own the annual Android business plan and strategic roadmap
- Produce the monthly portfolio forecast and maintain a clear bridge between actual performance, budget and prior forecast
- Diagnose material variances and drive corrective actions with clear owners and deadlines
- Manage Expected Credit Loss, ECL/Revenue, approval and disbursal rates, Average Loan Size, tenure, exposure, FPD, roll rates, PAR, NPL, repeat value and CAC payback
- Partner with Finance and Portfolio Economics on loan-level and customer-level NPV, funding efficiency and performance attribution
End-to-end Android credit strategy
Own and continuously improve strategy across:
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New-to-Bank: low-and-grow origination, first-loan ticket, tenure, pricing and risk controls
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Returning: repeat eligibility, behavioural strategy, offer construction and exposure growth
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Top-Ups and Internal Consolidation: eligibility, incremental exposure, pricing, conversion and post-event risk
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High-risk segments: risk-box clean-up, pricing, short-tenure treatment and exposure caps
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Rejected-customer re-entry: controlled requalification using risk, affordability and alternative data
You will own the commercial application of PD cut-offs and calibration, pricing, offers, tenure, exposure limits, affordability, income-source treatment, fraud overlays, MBS treatments and customer-routing logic.
Affordability, experimentation and production delivery
- Help formalise and operationalise Android affordability using bank-statement/MBS signals, transaction behaviour, SMS-derived estimates, declared income and repayment history
- Translate affordability into amount, tenure, price, exposure, Top-Up and Consolidation decisions
- Design controlled A/B, multivariate and champion/challenger tests with explicit hypotheses, maturity windows, success measures and rollback triggers
- Measure full unit economics rather than only early risk metrics
- Translate strategy into decision-engine rules, parameters and implementation requirements
- Own replay, back-testing, validation, staged rollout, monitoring and post-implementation review
- Drive cross-functional dependencies through to production rather than stopping