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Credit or Loans Officer
OFO Code: 331201
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 331201
- Occupation
- Credit or Loans Officer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- TECHNICIANS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 3312 · Credit and Loans Officers
Official description
Credit and loan officers analyze and evaluate financial information on applications for credit and loans and determine approval or disapproval of the client for the credit or loan or recommend to management approval or disapproval.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Brokerage Clerk, Credit Analyst / Control Officer, Credit Controller, Credit Clerk, Financial Accounting Plan Officer, Mortgage Clerk / Officer, Loans Consultant, Finance Systems Assistant, Loans Officer, Finance and Insurance Consultant, Budgeting and Reporting Officer, Finance Clerk / Officer, Lending Consultant, Insolvency Officer / Administrator, Treasury Officer
- Completing credit and loan documentation
- Approving or rejecting loan applications within authorized limits ensuring that credit standards of the institution are respected
- Researching and evaluating loan applicant’s financial status, references, credit and ability to repay the loan
- Interviewing applicants for personal, mortgage, student and business loans
- Keeping records of payments, and preparing routine letters requesting payment for overdue accounts and forwarding these for legal action
- Submitting credit and loan applications to management with recommendations for approval or rejection
2. Demand status
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned