Credit Manager

Cherry Bekaert Recruiting & Staffing Services; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cherry Bekaert Recruiting & Staffing Services is engaged in locating a Credit Manager for a Northern VA real estate client. The role blends accounting foundations with commercial credit experience, supporting initial and ongoing credit underwriting, training, and best practices in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.

Hybrid role with four days in the Northern VA office, responsible for evaluating and mitigating credit risk, maintaining standards for CC/IC memos, and overseeing QCR/ECR

Qualifications

• Experience evaluating and mitigating credit risk across portfolios.
• Strong background in credit underwriting procedures and memos for CC/IC.
• Experience with quarterly credit reviews (QCR) and enhanced reviews (ECR).
• Ability to track lease covenants and monitor credit compliance.
• Familiarity with AI tools for credit processes.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, manage, and communicate the credit risk of the portfolio
• Contribute to and maintain credit analysis standards for CC & IC memos
• Ensure effective and consistent management and execution of QCRs and ECRs
• Manage ongoing credit risk assessment including monitoring portfolio for lease covenants
• Serve as Credit Subject Matter Expert
• Facilitate communication and collaboration on credit matters between portfolio management, CC, IC, and other departments
• Support underwriting process on a transactional basis including deal structuring and development/execution of credit underwriting strategy and legal documentation
• Ensure consistency and accuracy of credit underwriting analysis
• Ad hoc support of pre-LOI credit underwriting
• Administer CC, communicate info to Portfolio Management Leadership, prepare analyses for lenders/investors, enhance credit related processes, admin and maximize Crowe Portfolio Analyzer for Lenders and Salesforce for portfolio credit reporting and risk management
• Training/Recruiting support as directed by PM team

Skills

Credit risk

Credit underwriting

Portfolio management

Credit analysis

Communication

Training support

Tools

Crowe Portfolio Analyzer

Salesforce

Job description

We are engaged in a search for a Credit Manager with one of our growing real estate clients in Northern VA. This newly created position requires an excellent mix of accounting foundation along with commercial credit experience. This role will be key to support initial and ongoing credit underwriting, training and best practices in a dynamic, entrepreneurial company!

Hybrid role, 4 days in the Northern VA office.

Manage the company’s credit processes and resources that support initial and ongoing credit underwriting, training, and best practices. Identify, report on, and mitigate the company’s overall portfolio credit risk. Understand and communicate macro industry trends.

• Evaluate, manage, and communicate the credit risk of the portfolio


• Contribute to and maintain credit analysis standards for Credit Committee (CC) & Investment Committee (IC) memos


• Ensure effective and consistent management and execution of quarterly credit reviews (QCR) and enhanced credit reviews (ECR)


• Manage ongoing credit risk assessment including monitoring portfolio for compliance with lease covenants


• Serve as Credit Subject Matter Expert


• Facilitate communication and collaboration on credit matters between portfolio management, CC, IC, and other departments

Transaction Support

• Support the underwriting process on a transactional basis including deal structuring, development and execution of the credit underwriting strategy, and consultation on credit specific legal documentation


• Ensure consistency and accuracy of credit underwriting analysis


• Ad hoc support of pre-LOI credit underwriting

General Duties

• Participant in and serve as the administrator of CC


• Communicate pertinent information proactively to Portfolio Management Leadership


• Prepare quarterly and ad/hoc analysis for lenders and investors


• Enhance company credit related processes, procedures, and capabilities including leveraging use of AI


• Administer and maximize company utilization of Crowe Portfolio Analyzer for Lenders and Salesforce for portfolio credit reporting and credit risk management


• Training/Recruiting support as directed by PM team

This role comes with a generous incentive bonus, excellent benefits, free lunch program in a 4 day in office hybrid setting.