BRANCH MANAGER

1. Staff Management
• Acting as a role-model for the others
• To manage his Client Officer Team, mainly on the loan side but also on the deposit side.
Participating in the process of definition of commercial targets and ensuring their understanding
by Client Officers. His involvement in this process depends on his experience as Team Leader
• Coaching new Branch Staff and Trainees as well as continuous improvement of the capacity of
existing Branch staff in line with Advans LFMFB credit policy methodologies and best practices
• Giving feedback and appraise his staff
2. Loan and Deposit Portfolio development
• Develop the overall branch loan and deposit portfolio (both in terms of quantity and quality),
• To organize prospecting and communication actions in the intervention area of the branch
(markets and commercial areas) by assigning tasks and targets to client officers and deposit
officers so that objectives and targets are reached in a timely manner (qualitative and
quantitative results both on deposit and lending sides), and by participating personally to such
actions notably when they involve market authorities, representatives of association or other
informal group leaders among clientele
• Communicating new procedures, manuals and price list in a proper way to the staff
• To monitor the results of commercial development activities, to analyse them with client
officers and to propose corrective actions or new initiatives that may support the achievement
of objectives
3. Internal control
• To make sure, through regular controls, that loan applications and loan appraisals are processed
by client and client officers according to the company’s standard (cf. policies, procedures and
guidelines), with special regard to completeness of documentation (both for paperwork and for
data processing in the Management Information System – MIS)
• Regular 2nd level controls have to be processed to reach this target.

Applicant must have worked as a Branch Manager for a minimum of Thirty-six months

Commercial Activities & Loan Portfolio – Deposit portfolio Management.
Staff Management
Internal Control & Administrative Task
ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS REQUIRED

•Practical knowledge of micro/small/medium businesses

•Knowledge of the microfinance bank sector is an advantage

•Good writing skills

•Knowledge of the major local languages