Chief Credit Officer

Peoples Bank and Trust; McPherson (KS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Peoples Bank and Trust in McPherson, Kansas seeks a Chief Credit Officer to lead credit administration, ensure quality loan portfolios and CECL/ACL governance, and address regulatory recommendations.

This executive role oversees underwriting standards, loan review, risk monitoring, and construction lending programs while mentoring staff and enhancing internal controls across the bank. The position requires strategic leadership and strong collaboration with regulators and senior management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or related field.
• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Full knowledge of loan services offered by Peoples Bank and Trust, understanding of all policies and procedures related to loan services, CECL, ACL governance, credit loss estimation, qualitative factor analysis, and related regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee all credit administration activities
• Ensure consistent application of loan policy and underwriting standards
• Lead response to regulatory examination findings and corrective actions
• Enhance internal controls designed to prevent lending limit violations and approval exceptions
• Serve as the Bank’s subject matter expert for construction and development lending
• Develop procedures for construction inspections, draw controls, lien waivers, and project monitoring
• Oversee loan grading, criticized assets, problem loan management, and concentration monitoring
• Oversee the CECL and ACL process in coordination with Accounting/Finance, including governance, model inputs, documentation, and management reporting
• Ensure CECL assumptions, segmentation, loss drivers, economic forecasts, reserves, and qualitative adjustments align with portfolio risk
• Present CECL and ACL results, trends, assumptions, and reserve levels to executive management and board
• Update and maintain loan policies, approval authorities, and credit administration procedures
• Mentor lenders, analysts, and credit administration staff
• Various other duties as assigned

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Relationship-building

Verbal communication

Written communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance or related field

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

ROLE

The Chief Credit Officer provides strategic leadership and oversight to the Bank’s credit administration function. The Chief Credit Officer is responsible for maintaining the overall quality of the loan portfolio, ensuring compliance with regulatory expectations, strengthening credit risk management practices, overseeing the Bank’s Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) and Allowance for Credit Losses (ACL) processes, and enhancing the effectiveness of underwriting, loan review, and portfolio monitoring across the organization. This position plays a critical role in addressing regulatory and examination recommendations, enhancing credit administration processes, supporting well-documented ACL governance, and strengthening the Bank’s construction and development lending program.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

This position is responsible for the following functions:

• Direct and oversee all credit administration activities


• Ensure consistent application of loan policy and underwriting standards


• Lead response to regulatory examination findings and corrective actions


• Enhance internal controls designed to prevent lending limit violations and approval exceptions


• Serve as the Bank’s subject matter expert for construction and development lending


• Develop procedures for construction inspections, draw controls, lien waivers, and project monitoring


• Oversee loan grading, criticized assets, problem loan management, and concentration monitoring


• Oversee the Bank’s CECL and ACL process in coordination with Accounting/Finance, including methodology governance, qualitative factor support, model inputs, documentation, and management reporting


• Ensure CECL assumptions, segmentation, loss drivers, economic forecasts, specific reserves, and qualitative adjustments are reasonable, supportable, and aligned with portfolio risk


• Present CECL and ACL results, trends, key assumptions, and recommended reserve levels to executive management, the Credit Committee, Audit Committee, or Board as appropriate


• Update and maintain loan policies, approval authorities, and credit administration procedures


• Mentor lenders, analysts, and credit administration staff

Various other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or related field

High School Diploma or equivalent required

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE

Full knowledge of loan services offered by Peoples Bank and Trust, understanding of all PBT policies and procedures related to loan services provided, working knowledge of CECL, ACL governance, credit loss estimation, qualitative factor analysis, and related regulatory expectations

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

10+ years commercial banking experience

5+ years of senior credit administration or credit leadership experience

Significant experience with construction and development lending

Experience working directly with regulators, loan review, auditors, andexecutive management

SKILLS/ABILITIES

Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, ability to work closelywith lenders, credit analysts, loan operations, executive management, and regulators, provide independent credit oversight while maintaining a collaborative and solutions-oriented approach, excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to mentor lenders and promote a culture of accountability, consistency, and sound credit judgment

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION

TALKING: Ability to speak effectively and communicate clearly

AVERAGE HEARING: Ability to hear average conversations at a standard level in an office environment around other customers and bank personnel

REPETITIVE MOTION: The employee is regularly required to type throughout the day

FINGER DEXTERITY: The employee is regularly required to use their hands to type and maneuver a mouse

AVERAGE VISION: Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus with 20/20 vision (with or without the assistance of eyeglasses/contacts)

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds (unassisted), as well as stand or sit for long periods of time

WORKING CONDITIONS

General professional office environment with climate control and adequate lighting. Occasional additional hours outside of regular bank service hours to complete tasks.

MENTAL ACTIVITIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to deal with a variety of variables under only limited standardization.

MATHEMATICS ABILITY: Strong numeric capabilities; ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers and common fractions.

LANGUAGE ABILITY: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents. Ability to communicate clearly.

INTENT AND FUNCTION OF JOB DESCRIPTIONS

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All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and basic duties have been included. Peripheral tasks, only incidentally related to each position, have been excluded. Requirements, skills, and abilities included have been determined to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the positions. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.

Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.