Deputy Chief Operations Officer (Deputy Head of Business), United States

FINCA International, one of the world's leading MFIs, provides financial services to more than 950,000 clients through 21 wholly-owned and operated subsidiaries in Africa, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Greater Middle East.

About the Job: 
FINCA is currently looking for a Deputy Chief Operations Officer (Deputy Head of Business) to support the chief operations officer (COO) in evaluation and execution of strategic and programmatic decisions and crisis management.

Tasks and Responsibilities: 

• Internal controls;
• Policy development and implementation;
• Planning and budgeting process (operating plan review, budgeting process);
• Liaison with HQ functional departments. Facilitate and pursue strong decision-making and implementation of operations-relevant goals/projects of non-RD MT members (e.g. SSC, IS projects, KM, finance goals, CMG initiatives, NBD funding opportunities);
• Reporting and reporting improvements, work with finance (and HR, NBD, other as appropriate);
• Support progress of certain M&A projects (due diligence, integration);
• Support progress of (formal) transformation process into licensed, deposit-taking entities/banks;
• Together with COO and RDs, develop strategy for subsidiaries;
• Support the COO in the performance evaluation and goal setting process;
• Crisis management as required, including travel to crisis spots;
• Deputize the COO in internal and external meetings as appropriate.

Qualifications: 

• More than 7 years of progressively responsible banking or savings & loan and operations work experience, with a more than 5 years in a supervisory or management capacity;
• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance, microfinance loan operations, loan processing, quality assurance, loan servicing, and savings;
• Understand concepts, standards, and procedures relating to individual and group lending, at they pertain to microfinance.

Closing Date: 07 Mar 2013

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