Overall Management and Supervision

• Work closely with Head of Provincial Office in setting annual plan, budget, and strategies for each staff under supervision;
• Be responsible for providing on job training and capacity building program to subordinates to effectively handle their job assignments to at least meet minimum performance standards expected;
• Regularly review branch performance against planning, budget, and set performance standards and timely take corrective actions as necessary;
• Be responsible for routine execution of the related task assignments and duties in compliance with MFI’s policies, procedures, guidelines, instructions, and performance standards as well as ensure that the objectives of execution are fully adhered to the MFI’s vision, mission, core values, goals, and objectives;
• Participate General Management Team and Branch Management Team as well as perform regular Branch Staff Meeting to review and reflect the level of achievements, identity implementation gaps and problems and challenges encountered, and come up with possible initiatives to fill up such gaps identified and effectively address those encountered
challenges and problems;
• Ensure effective communications between the responsible branch and provincial office as well as head office;
• Properly manage branch resources (finance, time, and human resources) in an effective and efficient manner;
• Implement the internal control systems in the branch to mitigate the associated and potential risks;
• Be responsible for providing orientation on JDs, KPIs, and POAs for all branch staff;
• Take necessary actions to continuously improve fraud prevention and detection;

Branch Management
– Loan Management
• Be responsible for all loans made by the branch; ensure that all processes and procedures are fully followed and that all loan documents are accurately completed;
• Be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the progress of overall branch performance and by staff such as trends of active borrowers, gross loan portfolio, loan disbursement, status of cross-financing and PAR and regularly conduct the analysis on results to see if corrective actions are needed to fully achieve the annual targets set and/or revert
the performance to get back on track;
• Be responsible for formulating the consolidated plans regarding loan disbursement, loan collection, PAR, and written-off recovery;
• Provide constructive feedback to concerned departments and units on related policies, procedures, and forms for better development;
• Conduct field monitoring visits and spot checks to ensure effective operational execution;

– Cash Management and Accounting Practices and Records
• Ensure that prudent cash management practices are followed in line with MFI’s finance and accounting policies and procedures:
• Review and approve all expenses at the branch level in accordance with the finance and accounting policies and procedures;
• Review and approve all accounting tracking records and ensure its correctness and full compliance with finance and accounting policies and procedures;

Other Assignments:
• Ensure that all required reports on daily, monthly, weekly, quarterly, and annual basis are accurately prepared and timely sent out;
• Ensure good cooperation with internal and external inspections and audits which include sufficient and timely supply the required data and documents as well as facilitate partner’s home and business visits;
• Timely initiate plan for improvements to effectively respond key findings of the internal and external inspections and audits;
• Perform other tasks assigned by line supervisors.