Senior Mortgage Lending Officer (SAFE Act) - WASHINGTON

Citi; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Citi in Washington, DC is seeking a Mortgage Lending Officer to originate high-quality residential real estate loans and deliver tailored lending solutions. This role combines policy understanding with direct customer interactions to meet clients' home ownership goals.

You will collaborate with branch partners, processors, and underwriters to move applications toward closing while building lasting client relationships and promoting Citi's lending services.

Qualifications

• Residential mortgage experience required.
• 1+ year sales/credit/finance experience preferred.
• Strong communication and customer service skills.
• Ability to explain financial calculations and pricing.
• Self-motivation and teamwork with internal partners.

Responsibilities

• Consult with customers about financial situations and lending needs to achieve home ownership goals.
• Collect/analyze information on finances, assets, debts, income, and credit history.
• Assess whether customer and property qualify for lending solutions.
• Recommend suitable lending products and explain risks/benefits.
• Promote Citi's lending services to clients and referral partners.
• Coordinate with Operations, Processors, and Underwriters to close loans.
• Develop relationships with Realtors, CPAs, builders, and other referral sources.

Skills

Mortgage experience

Sales experience

Communication skills

Customer service

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

The Mortgage Lending Officer role is a developing professional role. This role identifies policy and applies specialty knowledge in monitoring and assessing processes and data. Integrates established disciplinary knowledge within own specialty area with basic understanding of related industry practices. Good understanding of how the team interacts with others in accomplishing the objectives of the area. Develops working knowledge of industry practices and standards. Must be able to exchange information in a concise and logical way as well as be sensitive to audience diversity. Limited but direct impact on the business through the quality of the tasks/services provided. Impact of the job holder is restricted to own team.

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management.

Citi Bank Retail Mortgage provides home lending services via our Citibank branches and centralized service centers. The Home Lending Officer role represents the Retail Mortgage business providing superior service to clients and referral partners and is responsible for originating high quality residential real estate loans for clients. This highly interactive role engages internally with retail branch partners, operations, community business development officers.

Responsibilities

• Consult with customers about their financial situation, financial and personal objectives and lending needs for the purpose of helping them achieve their home ownership goals.
• Collect and analyze information about the customer's financial situation, financial and personal goals, tolerance for risk and change, plans for the future, income, assets, debts, cash flow, and credit history.
• Analyze financial information for customers to make an initial assessment regarding whether the customer and the property may qualify for a particular lending solution.
• Make recommendations to customers about which lending solutions would best meet the customers' financial and personal objectives
• Advise customers about the consequences, risks, and benefits of alternative lending solutions.
• Promote Citi's brand, and promote Citi as the provider for lending and other financial solutions. This includes promoting Citi and its financial services to real estate agencies, builders, other referral sources, and customers.
• Visit customers outside of Citi's offices, with such visits to vary based on clientele, geography, market conditions, and other factors.
• Work as a team with all internal partners to support and grow our customers.
• Refer customers who seek financial services other than lending solutions to the appropriate Citi professionals.
• Partner with Operations teams to ensure the seamless transfer of the loan application in order to provide documents to the Processors and acquire any additional information needed by the Processors and/or Underwriters.
• Work with Processors/Closers and customers to ensure the timely closing of the customer's loan.
• Go outside to key referral relationships (Realtors, CPA's, Builders, etc). to drive mortgage business into the bank.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
• Build and maintain relationship with clients, Bank Teams, Wealth Advisors and support teams to drive new business and retention of mortgage lending and bank deposits and investments
• Introduce Citi Wealth Teams (bankers, wealth advisors, small business) to self-sourced clients and work together to expand / deepen relationships, and work together on strategic plans to acquire new clients
• Keep abreast of trends and developments in local marketplace, as well as changing rules and regulations across the industry, and expand internal and external network to better serve clients and industry professionals and represent Citi at industry events as a subject matter expert.
• >$50M or 150 units of annual production (not to be published publicly)

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience
• Residential Mortgage experience required
• 1+ year previous sales, credit and/or finance experience required
• Proven product sales capability is required
• FHA/VA & conventional loan experience is preferred
• The ability to comprehend and explain financial calculations and pricing alternatives.
• The ability to communicate with customers about the proper documents and information needed to obtain a particular loan.
• Knowledge of the laws and regulations that govern consumer lending, including fair lending, privacy, and RESPA.
• Demonstrated customer service skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Strong relationship development and management skills
• Expertise of general lending products and overall mortgage industry.

Education

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience

This position requires the employee to register as a mortgage loan originator with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry ("Registry") and obtain a unique identifier from the Registry before engaging in mortgage loan originator activities.

Job Family Group

Consumer Sales

Job Family

Consumer Product Sales

Time Type

Full time

Primary Location

DC-GEORGETOWN NORTH 1258 WISCONSIN AVE

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range

$120,000.00 - $120,000.00

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Anticipated Posting Close Date

Sep 07, 2026

Automated Processing and AI

We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.

Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.

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Benefits

• In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.
• Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
• Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.

For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.