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About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The Credit Manager will support the Head of Credit Risk and Policy to incorporate environmental, commercial and residential real estate standards into credit risk programs and work closely with the Climate Risk Lead. This role will have responsibility for credit programs that involve leading a loss mitigation team, problem loan procedures, intraday credit guidelines, real estate lending procedures, underwriting guidelines and related credit policies and standards.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Develops Credit Risk standards to integrate environmental Risk Management and Reporting into Commercial and Residential Real Estate Lending Programs, owns Problem loan administration standards and standards related to Intraday credit risk
• Manages a team of individual contributors handling problem loans through loss mitigation. Determines staffing needs, makes hiring and firing decisions, handles salary administration, and ensures resources are available to accomplish priorities.
• Conducts the performance management process, identifies training and development needs, and establishes performance standards for the unit.
• Ensure compliance with internal credit policies/procedures, and federal/state banking laws, rules, regulations. Supports interactions with internal partners and regulatory bodies on all elements related to Climate Risk and Real Estate lending programs.
• Ensures that material risk exposures and related issues are reported to the responsible risk governance committees in a timely manner.
• Responsible for dispensing a detailed knowledge of regulations and an awareness of broader banking regulations, market trends, competitor activity and products/services.
• Counsels lenders on specific loan situations and calls problem loans to their attention via stress testing and loan committee governance. Advises senior credit and loan personnel on the company's overall lending policy; noting significant trends and recommending policy changes if necessary.
• Serves as a Risk Representative by participating with approval and other committees as appropriate and independently exercising approval authority, depending on experience
• Oversees the collection, restructuring, and monitoring of troubled loan portfolios
• Provides required documentation and responses to questions on loan portfolios. Keeps abreast of economic, political, and legislative factors that could affect the quality of loan portfolios.

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• 10+ years of commercial or real estate lending, or loan underwriting and structuring experience.
• Experience in risk appetite setting, credit metrics development, and establishing limits and thresholds.
• Knowledge of credit analysis, commercial real estate lending policies and procedures, loan documentation requirements, and applicable laws and regulations usually acquired through formal education and previous experience.
• Analytical skills to analyze risk of loan portfolios, and communication skills needed to report to senior management.
• Leadership and organizational skills to determine the unit goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of the staff.

Salary Range:
$137,400 - 240,400 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com .

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.