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Lending Business Owner: MoreTyme

GoTyme ZA (South Africa) · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Imported listingfull-timeabout 19 hours ago

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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