Digital Lending Specialist

Reporting to the Head- Retail Credit, the role holder will be responsible for providing end-to-end credit risk oversight and portfolio management for the Bank’s digital lending products across Retail, Commercial, and Enterprise segments. The role ensures prudent growth, strong asset quality, regulatory compliance, and data-driven credit decisioning through robust credit policies, scorecards, monitoring frameworks, and risk analytics for unsecured and micro digital lending products.

LOCATION: Kampala

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Monitor and manage the performance of digital lending portfolios (personal micro loans, overdrafts, and unsecured digital SME products).
• Track key portfolio metrics including PAR, NPL, roll rates, vintage curves, early warning signals, and write-offs.
• Recommend and implement portfolio optimization strategies to maintain asset quality within risk appetite.
• Conduct periodic portfolio reviews and deep dives by segment, channel, and product.
• Drive risk-based limit management and exposure controls.
• Develop, review, and continuously enhance digital lending credit policies and risk acceptance criteria.
• Design and maintain decision rules and scorecard cut-offs.
• Ensure alignment between risk appetite, pricing, & underwriting standards.
• Approve exceptions within delegated authority and recommend higher-level approvals where required.
• Support new product approvals through robust credit risk assessments.
• Oversee the validation, and recalibration of credit scoring models for digital products.
• Use data analytics to improve approval rates while maintaining portfolio quality.
• Drive use of alternative data (telco, mobile money, behavioral data) where permissible.
• Establish and maintain early warning indicators for digital portfolios.
• Monitor first payment default (FPD), early delinquency, & forward-roll trends.
• Trigger and coordinate remedial actions for deteriorating segments.
• Work closely with Collections to optimize cure rates and recovery strategies.
• Prepare monthly portfolio risk reports for senior management and risk committees.
• Ensure full compliance with Bank of Uganda (BoU) credit guidelines, IFRS 9 impairment requirements, Consumer protection standards and Data privacy and digital lending regulations.
• Support internal and external audits relating to digital credit.
• Ensure proper documentation and audit trails for automated decisions.
• Monitor adherence to responsible digital lending practices.
• Partner with: Personal, Enterprise & Commercial Banking, Business Solutions, Innovation Teams, BT & Data Analytics Teams AND Collections & Recoveries.
• Provide risk input during product design and digital journey development.
• Act as the primary credit risk advisor for digital lending initiatives.
• Ensure proper configuration and ongoing optimization of the Loan Origination Systems (LOS), Decision Engines, Credit Bureaus integrations and Fraud controls.
• Drive automation of credit processes while maintaining strong controls.
• Identify and close process gaps and control weaknesses.
• Produce high-quality dashboards and risk reports covering: Portfolio quality, Approval trends, Scorecard performance, Vintage analysis.
• Present insights and recommendations to the Credit Review Committee.
• Maintain data integrity for digital lending reporting.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, Business or related field.
• Relevant certifications are an added advantage.
• Deep 360-degree knowledge of Financial Technology and Banking Products.
• At least 5 years’ experience in digital lending, financial services or a related field involving development of credit / lending services.
• Proven experience in Retail micro lending, Digital / instant credit, SME unsecured lending, Portfolio analytics.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess credit risk, interpret complex data and make data-driven decisions.
• Proficiency in digital lending platforms, financial software, and data analysis tools such as: SQL, Excel (advanced), Power BI / Tableau, Python (advantage)
• Good understanding of financial regulations and compliance requirements related to credit in general and digital lending in particular.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with ability to convey complex information to different stakeholders clearly and concisely.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Commercial and risk balance mindset.

INVITATION

If you believe you meet the requirements as noted above, please use the link below to apply.

careers.dfcugroup.com

Once there, click on “Career Opportunities” to get started. (We recommend using Google Chrome for the best experience.)

Deadline: Friday 10^th July 2026

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.