01 Oct
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Vegrow
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Bengaluru
Role: Deputy Manager – Credit
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Work Mode: On-site
Experience: 3+ years
Qualification: CA
Travel: 25–30% Pan-India
About Vegrow
Vegrow is a fast-growing B2B fresh fruit supply chain, working across domestic, import, and export channels. Our credit function plays a critical role in enabling business growth while maintaining portfolio quality.
As Deputy Manager – Credit, you will own day-to-day credit underwriting, limit monitoring, and portfolio health across Vegrow's customer base. This is a high-ownership role for an early-career finance professional looking to build strong credit judgment in a fast-moving, data-driven environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Customer Underwriting: Evaluate credit applications end-to-end, including financials, trading history, cash flows, and sector-specific risks. Prepare credit appraisals and recommend appropriate credit limits.
- Limit Monitoring: Monitor credit limit utilization and process limit adjustment requests based on business and seasonal requirements. Identify exceptions and escalate risks.
- Portfolio Monitoring: Track DPI (Days Past Oldest Unpaid Invoice) and DPD on a daily basis. Identify early-warning signals and maintain a watchlist for at-risk accounts.
- Collections Coordination:
Prepare and hand over DPI 120+ accounts to the collections team with complete documentation and track resolution.
- Business Performance Reviews: Compile and validate portfolio data for weekly BPRs, ensuring accuracy and clear explanation of key variances.
- Policy & Governance: Ensure adherence to credit SOPs across channels, identify policy gaps or exceptions, and maintain audit-ready credit documentation.
- Field Assessments: Travel 25–30% across India to assess customer operations, validate financial information, and interact with key customers/traders.
What We're Looking For
- CA with 3+ years of experience in credit underwriting, credit analysis, or lending.
- Experience in NBFCs, banks, agritech, or supply-chain finance is preferred.
- Strong understanding of financial statement analysis, cash-flow assessment, and credit risk evaluation.
- Comfortable working with data and credit monitoring tools, with the ability to independently identify portfolio trends and risks.
- Robust attention to detail and a zero-error mindset, particularly with credit documentation and reporting.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work closely with sales teams and business stakeholders.
- Experience with agri-trader or SME lending is a plus.
- Willingness to travel 25–30% Pan-India for field assessments and customer visits.
📌 Deputy Manager Credit (Bengaluru)
🏢 Vegrow
📍 Bengaluru