Senior Wealth Underwriter

About this role:

The Residential Real Estate Alliance provides full-service, consistent and high quality underwriting and decisioning support to the WFHL High Net Worth Mortgage and ACO Mortgage teams.

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables and contribute to large-scale planning related to Wealth Underwriting
• Review, analyze, and evaluate borrower financial data for moderately complex high-net-worth loans to determine credit worthiness and monitor existing portfolio to identify issues that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors; present recommendations for resolving moderately complex situations
• Independently resolve moderately complex business, operational, or technical issues and lead team to meet deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of Wealth Underwriting and WFHL functional area policies, procedures, regulations, and compliance requirements
• Develop solid understanding of Home Lending policies, procedures, regulations, and compliance requirements for Wealth Investment Management client mortgages as needed
• Collaborate and consult with Wealth Underwriting peers, HL Underwriting peers, WIM Risk and mid-level managers to resolve issues and achieve goals; serve as a mentor for lower level staff
• Provide input to assist leaders with credit risk management decisions to ensure satisfactory credit portfolio risk examinations

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of Wealth Underwriting experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• Experience in Wealth Underwriting, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• A BS/BA degree or higher
• A Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Designation
• Knowledge and understanding of High Net Worth (HNW) clients: credit requests
• Commercial loan experience

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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