Small Business Lending Specialist

1 month ago


Jackson, United States American 1 Credit Union Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

We are growing Do you have experience with Small Business Lending? Do you have knowledge of banking platforms. Have worked in a Call Center Environment? If so, we invite you to consider a career at American 1 Credit Union. Below are more details before you decide to apply:

  • Location: onsite in Jackson, MI in our Contact Center
  • Position: Small Business Lending Specialist
  • Hourly: $23.63
  • Benefits start on day one: Health, Dental, Vision, Responsible Time Off
  • All offers of employment are contingent upon background screens.

The Small Business Lending Specialist is responsible for delivering an excellent experience in processing small business lending applications and servicing business accounts. The Small Business Lending Specialist has a broad knowledge of all credit union loan products and can successfully offer professional, timely and accurate lending experience to our current future business accounts. The Small Business Lending Specialist will be self-motivated, detail-oriented with excellent communication skills to effectively engage and build relationships with current and new businesses in our community. This position has a strong focus on community involvement to build relationships with business in our community to help support our mission of creating financial wellness within our communities. The Small Business Specialists works collaboratively with their team to assure that the member experience is superior, and goals are achieved.

Essential Job Functions

  • Engaged Communication: Ensure that engagement between co-workers and members is meaningful with a focus on listening to learn and offering quality solutions.
  • Timely Member Response: Service members through digital communication channels including online banking messages, emails, metro fax, mobile messages, etc. Answer detailed member inquiries regarding interest rates, service charges, and account histories while complying with disclosure requirements, regulations, and consumer privacy policies through all communication channels.
  • Focus on Purpose/Mission: Focused on credit union purpose and mission statement of creating financial wellness in our community through everyday banking.
  • Scorecard Accountability: Cross-offer new checking, lending, and product referrals to members that are consistent with individual and branch goals. Engage members through outbound sales calls and promote appropriate products and services according to member needs.
  • Attention to Detail and Confidentiality: Ensure that all member activity is done accurately. Maintain confidentiality by avoiding unauthorized disclosure of member information.
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Committed to supporting a culture that is inclusive for all.
  • Core Process, Policy and Procedure Review and Recommendations: Responsible for following all core processes, policies, and procedures including policies and procedures for customer identification and all BSA requirements.
  • Community Advocate: Serves as a representative of the credit union while in the community.
  • Department and District Support: Commitment to working all assigned hours and having the flexibility to work from any credit union location or traveling to develop business relationships. Willingness to mentor and support other team members.

Competencies Required

  • People Focused and Strong Communication: Empathetically seek understanding of what members and employees require and expect and use available resources, policies, and opportunities in their best interest without compromising institutional core values and core focus.
  • Achiever, Initiative and Goal Driven: The employee drives for results and success, is committed to their job, sets high standards of performance, pursues aggressive goals, and works hard to achieve them, displays a high level of effort and commitment to work, and takes ownership. Committed to executing individual scorecard goals as well as achieving branch goals.
  • Focused, Accuracy, Attention to Detail: Thoroughness and accuracy in accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small. Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently.
  • Trustworthy, Reliability and Confidentiality: Personally responsible; completes work in a timely, consistent manner; works hours necessary to complete assigned work; is regularly present and punctual; arrives prepared for work; is committed to doing the best job possible; keeps commitments. Able to keep all information obtained confidential including member, employee, and credit union information. Follows all core process, policies, and procedures.
  • Engaged and Collaborative: The employee will work with others to achieve common organizational goals in a spirit of honoring diversity and mutual respect. Effectively communicates by actively listening and sharing relevant information with co-workers, supervisor(s), and members so as to anticipate problems and ensure the effectiveness of the institution.
  • Humbly Confident and Inquisitive: Committed to asking questions for clarification so that confidence is built in the member relationships. Admit when there is an opportunity for improvement and celebrate with the team when we win together.

Key Accountability Items:

  • High level of knowledge of all business products and services
  • Develop Business Relationships
  • Support and Collaborate with Department Team
  • Accuracy and completion of account and loan documentation
  • Personal Scorecard Results

Requirements:

A minimum education of high school diploma or GED.

Minimum 1 year in Small Business Lending preferred.

The Ideal Candidate:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Self-motivated
  • Working knowledge of PC applications such as Microsoft Office
  • Ability to work independently or as a collaborative member of a team
  • Ability to direct other team members and coach others
  • Knowledge of credit union products, services, policies, core processes and procedures
  • Ability to provide supervisory leadership of professional- and intermediate-level staff
  • Demonstrated member-focused strategy skills
  • Demonstrated skill in gathering, reporting, and summarizing trends in data
  • Ability to express oneself clearly and articulately both orally and in writing
  • Ability to make decisions and take initiative in problem resolution
  • Ability to exercise tact and responsibility with handling confidential information


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