Senior Specialist, Underwriting
2 days ago
As a Senior Specialist, Underwriting, you will play a critical role in the Multi-Unit Policy and Operations team at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). Your primary responsibility will be to coach, review, and approve complex multi-unit mortgage loan insurance applications. You will lead risk management analysis, decisions, and recommendations for approval for the most complex scenarios related to underwriting, file-specific risk mitigation, optimizing client service, and achieving corporate objectives.
Key Responsibilities- Coordinate the design and delivery of new and existing learning, specialized development programs, and training materials for staff, including communications, training, coaching, functional guidance, and role-specific training for underwriters at multiple levels of seniority.
- Provide expert opinion on the effective and efficient transactional delivery of multi-unit mortgage loan insurance, while adhering to the program's policies and operational procedures.
- Provide directional guidance to peers, share best practices and approve risk recommendations within financial authority limits, as applicable.
- Negotiate and navigate through challenging politically sensitive issues, while adhering to all relevant policies and procedures.
- Exercise prudence and diligence to ensure team members comply with all relevant internal policies and procedures applicable to the function, often pushing risk appetite beyond existing boundaries.
- Seek out additional expertise to form unique positions to address previously not encountered financial risk scenarios.
- Collaborate with the Commercial Solutions Team to manage and maintain complex and sophisticated external client relationships.
- Skills in motivating, understanding, and/or developing people are critical to the achievement of results through others.
- A minimum of seven years of prior relevant experience in underwriting.
- An undergraduate degree in a related field such as business, finance, or commerce.
- A strong knowledge of procedures, policies, and regulations of risk management.
- A strong knowledge of multi-unit mortgage loan insurance, lending, real estate (including non-housing related commercial), financial markets, and credit risk analysis.
- The ability to take initiative and work independently to develop and utilize a network within CMHC.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in both official languages (English & French) including presentation, persuasion, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- A commitment to demonstrating CMHC values.
- Successful completion of a professional association designation such as being Certified in Real Estate Finance (CRF), Certified Property Management (CPM), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Accountant (CA), or Accredited Appraiser Canadian Institute (AACI).
- Excellent relationship management skills and demonstrated development and coaching abilities.
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