Mortgage Underwriter

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Position Summary:

Under the direction of the Mortgage Loan Underwriting Supervisor, the Mortgage Loan Underwriter approves or denies mortgage loans by performing the following duties.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Performs final review of mortgage loan credit, income, asset and property documents to determine acceptability of documents provided and proper execution of any corresponding calculations.
• Analyzes credit history, income capacity, adequacy of assets and collateral eligibility and value to determine acceptability of risk for manual underwriting or validation of data entry for automated underwriting.
• Assures compliance of loans with guidelines of insuring/guaranteeing entities (FHA, VA, RHS, PMI companies and NDHFA) as well as secondary mortgage market investors (private mortgage companies, FNMA and FHLMC).
• Approves or rejects loan applications or requests additional information.
• Approves loans within specified limits and conducts approval process and set-up.
• Records loan rejections, specifying investor and institution guidelines and basis for declining application, such as insufficient cash reserves.
• Reviews documents in loan files, including acceptance or denial and returns scanned information to originating mortgage loan office.
• Assists loan department with training, responds to request for information and assists with other loan duties as needed.
• Maintains proper correspondence and legal files.
• Explains, promotes, cross-sells or refers bank, insurance and trust products or services.
• Reviews emails and branch messages to remain current on policy or procedural changes and new product offerings.
• Attends periodic training to remain current on trends and developments and participates in an exchange of ideas and problems.
• Assists with various projects and assignments as needed.
• Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, internal controls, and regulations.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or three plus years of related experience in the mortgage evaluation process; or equivalent combination of education and experience.