Financial Solutions Assistant Manager
Job Description:
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Regularly monitors consumer, loan portfolios. Reviews accounts for potential modification. Works to ensure continued strength and stability of loan portfolio.
- Ensures effective Financial Solutions support and service by providing leadership and supervision. Plans, organizes and supervises the work of staff.
- Participates in staff selection. Provides training and coaching and appraises performance. Provides feedback to Lending management regarding job performance of staff.
- Pursues communication with defaulted members; offers potential workout alternatives or payment plans. Makes charge off recommendations as necessary.
- Analyzes borrowers situation and collateral risk. Identifies, recommends, and negotiates varied alternative solutions appropriate to loss mitigation and asset preservation. Provides quotes and pay-off amounts.
- Represent the Credit Union at legal proceedings; testifies as required.
- Provides business lending support through collateral monitoring, site visits, and collateral valuation.
- Regularly performs skip tracing and borrower research.
- Utilizes strong system and best-practice knowledge to ensure effective departmental workflows, regulatory compliance, and accuracy.
- Continuously improves team member competencies through training, developed educational programs, and mentorship.
- Reviews referrals of non-delinquent borrowers. Contacts borrow to provide alternatives that support ownership retention.
- Ensures that requested/required documentation is accurate, complete, up to date and in full receipt. Maintains accurate files and collection activity system updates.
- Regularly reports delinquency information to leadership; makes next step escalation recommendations/decisions, as appropriate.
- Works to actively to identify and communicate loan underwriting delinquency causing trends; provides potential solutions
- Seeks ways to streamline work processes and continuously improve the Credit Union.
Education/Experience
High school diploma. Bachelors degree in Business Administration or similar, preferred. Minimum five years of progressively responsible collection experience within a consumer lending and real estate environment. Minimum two years supervisory experience.
Requirements Skills, Job Knowledge & Abilities
- Advanced knowledge of collection related regulatory guidelines and applicable laws.
- Ability to select, lead, motivate and develop staff for optimum performance.
- Proven ability to perform skip tracing and delinquent borrower research.
- Ability to influence others with a significant level of diplomacy and trust.
- Proven ability to consult with, and advise Members, effectively and respectfully.
- Outstanding communication ability, both verbal and written. Strong listening skills.
- Basic understanding of mortgage lending and servicing.
- Proven problem solving, analytical, and negotiation skills.
- Proficiency with MS Office; Excel specifically.
- Ability to obtain advanced knowledge of collection tracking system.
- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and exercise independent judgment and analysis.
- Proven ability to work in a team environment and remain flexible as priorities shift.