Mortgage Loan Originator

General Description of Position

The Mortgage Loan Originator solicits residential first mortgages through contacts with Realtors, builders, and developers. Interview loan applicants and make credit decisions. The MLO is responsible for handling referrals and developing referral contacts within the bank region.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with assigned branch office to ensure awareness of home loan products.
• Handle referrals from branch office and provide appropriate follow-up.
• Develop referral contacts (realtors, builders, professional and personal contacts).
• Analyze financial data to determine creditworthiness.
• Maintain knowledge of available loan products, processing procedures and underwriting guidelines.
• Take borrower applications.
• Utilize communication and access of daily rates, credit reports and DU responses and transmit to processor.
• Collect appropriate documentation from each applicant and deliver loan package to processor in a timely manner.
• Maintain high levels of customer service while managing each applicant's and support staff's expectations.
• Attend and participate in all lending meetings as required.
• Complete BSA/AML training and other compliance training as necessary.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of such fields as accounting, marketing, business administration, finance, etc.
• Equivalent to a four year college degree, plus 4 years related experience and/or training, and 2 years related management experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Communication Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and understand general business/company related articles and professional journals.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Critical Thinking Skills

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of known variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram formats.

Required Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Not indicated.

PREFERRED Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Not indicated.

Software Skills Required

• Intermediate: 10-Key, Accounting

Responsibility for Work of Others

• No supervision.

Working Conditions

• Somewhat disagreeable working conditions.
• Continuously exposed to one or two elements such as noise, intermittent standing, walking; and occasional pushing, carrying, or lifting.

Environmental Conditions

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Activities

• Semi-repetitive, low physical.
• Semi-repetitive type work which requires periods of concentration for varied time cycles as prescribed by the tasks.
• While performing the functions of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; and occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Additional Information

• Not indicated.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.