Manager - Credit - Credit - Housing - DM - JM

Tata Capital; Chennai District; On-site; INR 10,00,000 - 15,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Chennai seeks an experienced mortgage underwriter. The candidate will manage the underwriting process, assess loan applications, and maintain portfolio performance. Responsibilities include client discussions, credit assessments, and ensuring compliance with policies. Ideal candidates are graduates or post graduates, preferably with CA or MBA certifications, and possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Graduate or Post Graduate in a relevant field.
• Certifications such as CA or MBA are preferable.
• Strong communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite mortgage business and manage the portfolio.
• Review loan applications and take approval decisions.
• Conduct discussions with customers to establish creditworthiness.
• Maintain Portfolio and Delinquency MIS.
• Build effective relationships with third parties.

Skills

Credit assessment

Portfolio management

Client relationship management

Problem-solving

Risk mitigation

Education

Graduate

Masters/Post Graduate

CA/MBA (Preferable)

Job description

Responsibilities

• To underwrite mortgage business and manage the portfolio in assigned branch/location
• Review and assess a broad range of complex loan applications within defined guidelines and accordingly take decision or recommend for approval to higher authorities.
• Under write proposals as per the laid down policies & procedure to honour the agreed SLAs and manage city/area business volumes.
• Conduct personal discussion with customers to establish credit worthiness and ensure completion of credit/KYC documents and verification- telephonic, field & collateral visits.
• Assess income to obligation ratios, loan to value ratios, in depth knowledge of rational behind calculation of ratios and its impact on loan performance over long tenures.
• Maintain Portfolio MIS, Delinquency MIS and other operations related MIS of the cluster and regularly reporting the same.
• Build and facilitate the best outcomes for clients by building and leveraging effective relationships with third parties.
• Take ownership of client queries and use industry knowledge and experience to overcome challenges and solve problems.
• Exceed service quality standards and strive for continuous process improvement.
• Undertake critical review of the credit proposals with a view to bring out the industry, business, financial, management and facility structure risk contained in the credit proposal.
• Ensure collateral and other credit risk mitigation to facilitate the approving authority to take decision on the credit proposal.
• Enable quick turnaround time of credit lending proposals for the mortgage business comprising of loan against property, and home loan business in close liaison with the sales team.
• Undertake ongoing review of the credit exposures to ensure that the exposure continues to be bankable.
• Facilitate critical review and documentation of the proposals and effectively monitor the client & collateral creditworthiness from the pre sanction to post disbursement phase & undertaking steps for risk mitigation, whenever required, while ensuring adherence to legal & documentation norms & policies.
• Manage the credit underwriting function of his/her branch and facilitate quick turnaround of credit lending proposals for the branch in close liaison with the local credit analysts and sales team.
• Follow up and ensure recovery of quick mortality cases between 12 -18 MOV.

Qualifications

• Graduate, Masters/Post Graduate
• Certifications: CA/MBA (Preferable)