National Commercial Underwriting Manager I - Small Business Portfolio Management

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:

$115,440 - $173,160 USD

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Line of Business:

Personal & Commercial Banking

Job Description:

The National Commercial Underwriting Manager I manages the credit underwriting and credit administration functions for assigned portfolio, consistent with the TD Bank Group Risk Appetite Principles. Establishes the credit structure, Borrower Risk Ratings and Facility Risk Ratings (where applicable) for new and existing credit relationships. The job directs the Centralized Credit Management staff within its assigned teams in the monitoring of the portfolio and/or origination of new credit exposure. The job manages a team of commercial credit professionals including Commercial Credit Underwriters.

Depth & Scope:

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
• Manages a commercial underwriting team that adjudicates credits with a variety of complexities.
• Leads a team of Commercial Credit Underwriters.
• Guides the team to properly structuring new and existing credit exposure within the bank's risk appetite.
• Ensures adherence to Risk Policies, implements operational risk processes, policies, and practices and drives satisfactory regulatory audits, loan review, internal audits, and compliance audits.
• Possesses loan decision authority up to position authority limits as defined in credit policy
• Expected to attain and exercise exception and high-risk loan authority
• Takes part in decision appeal discussion with sales management and/or credit risk management
• Acts as a leader and participates in the on-going development of your Underwriting team
• Considers and discusses alternative structures such as SBA and other agencies and overall assessments with market, sales personnel
• Contributes to discussions of policy and standards adjustments with senior management team
• Drives team to meet turnaround requirements in a loan production environment, while maintaining strong quality of work produced
• Maintains a satisfactory level of portfolio delinquencies and charge-offs
• Ensures departmental compliance with TD Bank Credit Policy and Credit Standards, Federal Banking Regulation and Government Reporting requirements. Contribute to organizational strategic initiatives such as process improvement, system enhancements, process workflow
• Builds and maintains productive relationships with all business partners within the Commercial Bank and encourages team to do the same
• Coaches the Credit Managers and Underwriters in developing value-added credit solutions for our customers that are consistent with the TD Bank Group Risk Appetite Principles
• Drive employee satisfaction and morale

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree preferred
• 10+ years of relevant commercial lending relationship management, underwriting, and/or adjudication experience
• Prior lending authority >/= $1 million preferred Small Business Administration/Agency, Healthcare Practice Solutions, or other specialty lending experience preferred
• Prior people management experience preferred
• Proven leadership abilities
• Ability to lead in a highly professional, systems-based environment
• Proven analytical and research skills
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to blend technical knowledge and good business judgment
• Proven organizational, multi-tasking, analytical, time management and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of value-add credit structuring in a commercial banking environment
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong interpersonal skills and a team orientation
• Ability to work with various levels of b