Senior Credit Officer

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WHO WE ARE

City First Bank N.A. is a mission-driven Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) principally focused on a transformative impact in underserved, urban markets with the highest needs to drive equitable economic development. Our credit activities are purely commercial and focused on the following segments:
Multifamily Affordable Housing, Not-for-Profit Finance, and Small Business Finance. As a depository and commercial lending provider with over $1.3 billion in bank assets as of December 31, 2024, our unified organization has over 100 employees in Washington DC and Los Angeles/Inglewood, CA.

ROLE SUMMARY

The role will directly report to and support the Chief Credit Officer (CCO) in management of the Bank’s loan portfolio. This role will also assume responsibility for the more complex lending relationships in the portfolio, including underwriting, and serves as a senior subject matter expert internally and externally. The Senior Credit Officer would handle all aspects of the relationships in the portfolio including pre-vetting, maintaining the credit pipeline, loan approvals, month-end reporting, annual reviews, monitoring and watch reporting.

The position will not have business development responsibilities; however, the individual must be able to recognize such opportunities and refer these to the appropriate area of the bank.

In addition to driving production and portfolio monitoring, the position will lead the measurement and tracking of portfolio metrics for the CCO. The individual will need to have a broad working knowledge of a credit portfolio including loan loss reserves, risk rating assignments, general loan accounting, and risk management. Attention to detail and ability to research and resolve issues as they arise is critical to the position as the individual will also work closely with the CCO and play a primary role in the bank’s Credit Risk Management process.

The position requires a demonstrated ability to work across multiple areas of the financial institution while providing competent, courteous, and professional customer service to external and internal customers. The successful individual in this position is one that thrives on high quality service, strong initiative using their accumulated knowledge and experience, problem solving, and an eagerness to adapt and develop new banking skills.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership and Supervision – 30%

• Creates an atmosphere within the organization that attains and maintains a high level of morale and embraces our Vision, Values, Mission, and Team Expectations while providing “best in class” customer service to internal and external clients.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of annual department goals and individual goals.

Credit Oversight – 30%

• Partner with relationship managers/lenders to establish and maintain prudent risk appetite and facilitate growth within these parameters through deal vetting and prescreening.
• Review, approve, decline, or recommend to appropriate higher authority, credit opportunities for new originations, renewals or modifications of existing loans.
• Drive the pipeline with a focus on loan approvals, underwriting completion and moving deals through the closing process.
• Ensure all credit delivery activities have been completed in a timely, efficient and prudent manner while facilitating an environment for the efficient delivery to customers of products and services that require credit exposure.
• Provide leadership role modeling and disseminate the bank's credit culture and risk appetite.
• Provide experienced oversight of portfolio to ensure that satisfactory loan quality is maintained as well as early identification of potential problem credits, communicating with CCO, working with Special Assets Officer as necessary…