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KOHO

Collections & Recoveries Strategy Manager

RemoteCanada only
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Finance
Employment
Full-time
CAD 110k–CAD 170k/yr
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No BS summary

KOHO is seeking a Collections & Recoveries Strategy Manager with 3-5+ years of experience in collections strategy, recoveries, or credit risk management. This role involves building and owning the collections function from the ground up, designing contact strategies, payment programs, and customer-first recovery experiences. Strong analytical skills, SQL proficiency, and familiarity with Canadian consumer protection regulations are required.

Core skills

SQLCollections StrategyCredit Risk Management

Optional skills

IFRS 9

Required languages

EnglishFrench

What you'll do

  • Own the monitoring and analysis of KOHO's delinquency and loss trends across all lending products — roll rates, cure rates, vintage performance, and charge-off trajectories
  • Build and maintain dashboards and reporting frameworks that give leadership real-time visibility into portfolio health and collections performance
  • Identify early warning signals of credit deterioration and propose proactive intervention strategies
  • Define and track the KPIs that matter: right-party contact rate, promise-to-pay rate, promise-to-pay kept rate, gross collections rate by delinquency stage, cost-per-dollar-collected, and post-charge-off recovery rates
  • Design and continuously optimize KOHO's contact strategy across the full delinquency lifecycle — including when to reach out, through which channels (chat, email, push, SMS, voice), with what messaging, and at what frequency
  • Develop customer segmentation models to tailor treatment strategies based on delinquency stage, customer risk profile, payment behaviour history, and responsiveness
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to build or enhance in-app and digital nudges that encourage repayment before accounts reach critical delinquency stages
  • Ensure all contact strategies comply with applicable regulations, including FCAC guidelines on debt collection conduct and OSFI expectations for a federally regulated lender
  • Design payment arrangement programs — including hardship plans, instalment options, fee suppression, and settlement / partial forgiveness offers — that balance loss reduction with customer relief
  • Define eligibility criteria, discount waterfall frameworks, and authorization protocols for settlement offers
  • Evaluate and test the financial trade-offs of different recovery programs against a modelled "do nothing" baseline
  • Build and refine financial models to assess the value of collections treatments, cure probability by segment, and expected recovery rates at each delinquency stage
  • Lead the strategy of KOHO's third-party collections partners (BPOs), including defining scope of engagement by delinquency stage, channel coverage (chat, dialling), performance standards, and escalation frameworks
  • Work with Operations to develop performance scorecards for BPO partners and participate in regular reviews to assess quality, compliance, and outcomes
  • Work with Operations to design the internal vs. external collections model — determining which segments to manage in-house and when/how to place accounts with external agencies
  • Develop the strategy for post-charge-off debt recovery, including internal recovery, third-party debt placement, and debt sale decisions
  • Design the customer rehabilitation (win-back) program — defining the criteria and pathway for customers who have previously defaulted to re-engage with KOHO's products, and the risk controls required to manage that re-entry
  • Build models to assess the long-term value of rehabilitated customers relative to the cost and risk of re-onboarding them
  • Collaborate with Credit Strategy on the policy framework for re-qualifying defaulted customers for new credit products

What they require

  • 3–5+ years of experience in collections strategy, recoveries, or credit risk management at a consumer lender, bank, fintech, or credit card company
  • Deep knowledge of the consumer collections lifecycle — from early-stage delinquency through charge-off, third-party placement, and recovery
  • Hands-on experience designing contact strategies, payment arrangement programs, and/or settlement frameworks
  • Experience working with BPO vendors, including setting performance standards
  • Strong analytical skills — comfortable building financial models, cohort analyses, and cost-benefit frameworks
  • Familiarity with Canadian consumer protection and debt collection regulations
  • Excellent communication skills; able to translate analytical findings into operational recommendations and present to senior leadership
  • Preferred: Experience at a company building a collections function from scratch or in a high-growth / early-stage environment
  • Preferred: Familiarity with digital-first collections channels (in-app, chat, push) as a primary contact mechanism — rather than traditional dialling-first models
  • Preferred: Experience designing customer hardship or financial wellness programs, particularly within a mandate of treating customers fairly

KOHO is on a mission to make financial services better for every Canadian, offering financial products designed to help users spend smart, save more, and build wealth.

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CAD 110k–CAD 170k/yr