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Lending Business Owner: MoreTyme
GoTyme ZA (South Africa) · Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
About The Role
Job Purpose
- We are seeking a seasoned financial services professional with demonstrated experience managing a
- consumer lending program. This individual should have a great command of credit strategy
- development and lending product economics. Building on that foundation, the Lending Business
- Owner will own the full product lifecycle and end-to-end P&L for GoTyme’s next-generation lending
- offering—driving sustainable and resilient growth, best-in-class customer experience, and disciplined
- risk management.
Key Responsibilities
- P&L Ownership: Own the P&L for the lending product; set and deliver volume, revenue,
- cost, and loss targets; optimise profitability (risk adjusted returns) through credit risk, pricing,
- fee design, and margin management while always keeping the customer top of mind.
- Credit Risk Management: Own 1st line credit strategies (acquisitions, portfolio management)
- that allow us to optimize growth and customer lifetime value while operating
- within the bank’s risk appetite
- Product Strategy and Development: Work with the Product team to craft the go-to market
- and multi-year product vision, customer value proposition, and agile roadmap; lead
- discovery, prototyping, and iterative releases from concept to scale. Ensure that investments
- are aligned to Tyme group’s multi-country vision.
- Customer Growth & Experience: Drive acquisition, activation, and retention through
- data-driven marketing, UX experimentation, and personalized lifecycle journeys to sustain
- high NPS.
- Cross-Functional Leadership & Governance: Align Legal, Compliance, Finance,
- Operations, Tech, and Marketing to hit launch and portfolio milestones; present business cases
- to ExCo, credit committees, and regulators.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Institutionalise OKR dashboards, test-and-learn agendas,
and cohort analytics; socialise insights for rapid course-correction.
- Team Building & Mentorship: Recruit, coach, and inspire a multidisciplinary squad of
- product, credit, marketing, operations teams to support lending initiatives; foster GoTyme’s
- culture of “hunger & humility.”
- Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Scout fintech trends, embedded-lending plays,
and alternative-data partnerships to keep GoTyme at the front of consumer credit innovation.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Portfolio profitability (Risk-adjusted margin, Net interest margin, Net Present Value, Return
on Equity)
- Growth (Disbursements #/PHP, Outstandings, Penetration)
- Risk & Capital (Credit losses #/PHP %, Loss Coverage Ratio, Capital Adequacy)
- Execution (On-time delivery, Flawless execution, Experimentation)
Job Specification
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or higher in applied mathematics, finance, statistics,
- computer science, physics, data science, engineering or any other
- quantitative discipline
- Master’s degree is preferred
Professional Qualification and/or Regulatory, Licensing requirements (if any)
- Relevant experience or diplomas, certificates or completed training
courses.
- CFA, FRM, PMP is a plus.
Relevant Work Experience
- 5+ years in the financial services industry at a top-tier bank or fintech
(e.g. Capital One, Nubank, etc.)
- Proven track record of launching, scaling, and managing credit
products
- Experience managing lending program P&L and credit risk and
leveraging data and analytics to inform decisions
- Hands on experience working with, manipulating and analyzing large
- datasets using programming languages such as SQL, R, SAS, Python,
- etc.
- Evidence of leadership and managerial skills, with a track record of
building and leading high-performing analyst teams.
- Interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage,
collaborate, and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Required Competencies and Skills
Competencies/Skills (Essential to succeed in this job)
- Analytical & Strategic Thinking: Turns white-space ideas into
- quantified opportunities; Adept at financial modelling and scenario
- analysis.
- Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of local market/consumer
- behavior, credit-lifecycle levers (acquisition through collections) and
- retail-bank P&L mechanics.
- Technical & Digital Savvy: Expert in testing platforms, and agile
- tooling; fluent in conversations with business, credit, data scientists
- and engineers.
- Communication & Influence: Distills complex trade-offs for
- senior execs; drives alignment across risk, tech, and commercial
- teams.
- Adaptability & Innovation: Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous
- settings; constantly hunts for new data sources, partners, and GTM
- models.
- Leadership & Talent Development – Builds high-performing,
- purpose-driven teams; embodies GoTyme’s values in everyday
- decision-making.
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