Zahir ElZubair, Head of Credit Monitoring, Collection & Recovery

Zahir ElZubair

Head of Credit Monitoring, Collection & Recovery

Masraf Al Rayan

Location
United States - North Carolina
Education
Master's degree, Commerce & Business Economics
Experience
27 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :27 years, 11 Months

Head of Credit Monitoring, Collection & Recovery at Masraf Al Rayan
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since March 2009

• Establish effective collection & remedy strategy for potential and non-performing defaulting borrowers to determine solutions which will protect the Bank's interest and increase the security in favor for the bank.
• Responsible for managing and monitoring corporate portfolio for non-performing assets, mitigating and reducing loss situations.
• Negotiate with clients to explore the possibilities for an amicable settlement of liabilities towards mutual interest before initiating legal action. If legal action is the only alternative, then make recommendation to Head of Credit/Credit Committee accordingly and immediately pursue this alternative in conjunction with Legal Department.
• Design department monthly MIS, update on the status of non-performing loans to business, the latest developments on each account and to discuss the next course of action.
• Ensure compliance with central bank, auditors' requirements, internal and external reporting obligations in- line with the bank's policy guidelines while adhering to high standards of uniformity and consistency across the Bank.
• Manage Credit risk stress testing in coordination with marketing, operation and finance to conduct overall risk stress testing to meet group & regularity requirement.
• Review periodically the department's policies and procedures to ensure the most efficient and effective manner of workflow is in place.

Achievement:-
• Set up collection & recovery unit.
• Created Collection policy & procedures.
• Recruited collectors & support staff.
• Controlled delinquency & contained Net Credit Loss below AOP.
• Set up collection target, monitoring & manage team performance.
• Formulated Collection MIS.
• Assignment of collection agencies.
• Set up Credit Risk Stress Testing policy and procedure.

Collection and Recovery manager at First Gulf Bank
  • United Arab Emirates
  • February 2007 to February 2009

• Highly experienced in the UAE market in Credit & Risk Management area.
• Control & monitoring of large portfolio, contain delinquency ratio& NCL (Net Credit Loss).
• Analyze portfolio performance & recommend growth strategy to maximize revenue potential while controlling bad debts.
• To design & implement collection / recovery strategy, techniques & procedures.
• To provide periodical feedback & recommendation to the retail credit management.
• To make capacity plan & do load balancing for the unit.
• Analysis of MI, review of workflow & develop efficiency of the unit.

Collection and Recovery Manager at HSBC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2000 to January 2007

• Reporting line for a total of 48 (including 4 supervisors) staff handling their Team leader activities.
• Expert in Auto Dialer & CACSPlus (Collection Assisted Computer System)
• Build & design dialer campaign, set campaign strategy & monitor smooth & efficient running of the same.
• Responsible for designing all inbound and outbound collections strategies, the smooth operation of the predictive dialler system, as well as the front end and mid-range portfolios across all products (Credit Card, Personal Loan, Auto Loan, Overdraft)
• Analysis of delinquency rates and roll/cure rates to ensure optimal strategies.
• Interview & recruit new staff, conduct training, coaching session & development program for new and existing staff.
• Monitoring day-to-day performance to ensure efficient functioning of subordinates.

Credit Analyst. at CitiBank
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 1996 to January 2000

Credit Analysit
• Scrutinizes customer's loan application forms, analysis financial statement, identify potential credit risk, review customers documentation, and provide approval as per policy and credit guidelines, across all retail products include (Auto-Loan, credit Cards & Personal Loan).
• Scrutinize customer's proposal & documents for Buy-out, Top up & Refinance for PL & Auto-Loans.
•Customer Service CitiPhone Banking Dept
Three months Telephone banking service includes credit cards & banking.

Education

Master's degree, Commerce & Business Economics
  • at Mohanlal Sukhadia University
  • October 1995

Oct 1995 M.L Sukhadia Udaipur, India Master in Commerce & Business Economics, Master (MSc/MA), GPA 2nd.DV

Bachelor's degree, Economics
  • at Mohanlal Sukhadia University
  • June 1993

- Jun 1993 M.L Sukhadia Udaipur, India Economics, Bachelor (BSc/BA), GPA 2nd.DV OTHER CERTIFICATES 1 year Post Graduate Diploma in Banking Management

Specialties & Skills

Credit Review
Collection & Recovery
Credit Control
Credit Risk
Credit Risk

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Basel III (Training)
Training Institute:
Qatar Central Bank
Date Attended:
August 2013
Retail Credit Quality & Control (Training)
Training Institute:
FGB
Date Attended:
May 2007
Corporate Financing (Training)
Training Institute:
Masraf Alrayan
Date Attended:
March 2010
Advance Management Collection workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
HSBC
Date Attended:
April 2006
Management Assessment (Training)
Training Institute:
HSBC
Date Attended:
June 2002