Commercial Underwriter

1 week ago

Dallas, Texas, United States The Ladders Full time
Summary: Responsible for analyzing creditworthiness of borrowers and credit structure in order to prepare Underwriting portion of loan presentations for approval purposes. Analyses will include identifying strengths, weaknesses and trends, providing recommendations, spreading financial statements, assessing risk, and providing statistics. This position will underwrite complex borrowers. Requires use of independent judgment. Additionally, promotes financial institution and its lending services to the community and helps to identify and serve the community's financial needs by participating in community activities.

Description:

This position plays an integral role on the Commercial Banking Relationship Team. The individual will work directly with Bankers, Credit Officers, and other Underwriters to analyze new and existing commercial credit opportunities and support management of the loan portfolio. The successful candidate may attend client and prospect meetings, perform research in order to identify, quantify, and mitigate underwriting risk inherent in the borrower, industry, or loan structure. The candidate would be expected to develop strong working relationships with client management, internal teammates, credit officers, and other bankers. Junior Commercial Credit Underwriters will provide mentorship to newer staff members, especially Credit Analysts.

Minimum Job Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field; MBA preferred
  • Two years of commercial credit underwriting and/or portfolio management experience. A high school diploma or GED and five years of related commercial underwriting or lending experience may also qualify
  • Strong financial and analytical skills.
  • Good organizational and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills in order to effectively communicate with co- workers and customers about the financial institution's loan programs and policies.
  • Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Products including Word, Excel, and Office 365. Working knowledge of D+H Financial Analyzer and Credit Manager, preferred.
Specific Job Functions:
  • Prepares in-depth, front-end analysis on credits, which includes reviewing all necessary financial information, discussing credit request and financial information with banker in conjunction with underwriting, credit preparation of credit approval documents. Analysis will include:
    1. Spreading annual and interim financial statements of companies
    2. Spreading annual personal financial statements and personal tax returns of owners/guarantors
    3. Review or prepare and stress test projections
    4. Industry research
    5. Identifies risk inherent in the relationship, loan structure, or industry and identifies methods to minimize the identified risk.
    6. Identifies policy and regulatory compliance issues
    7. Prepares risk analysis
  • Analysis includes identification of risk(s) within the relationship, loan structure, or industry as well as methods to minimize the identified risk(s) or compensating factor(s) for the risks.
  • Completes ongoing periodic credit servicing of loans within the portfolio including spreading and analyzing financial statements and reviewing ratio tests.
  • Mentors junior members of the Underwriting team
  • Provides support for the Bank's sales efforts which may include selling and promoting Bank's services, as opportunities arise.
  • Participates in the financial institution's community activities.
  • Performs other duties, as assigned.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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