Manager, Commercial Credit

Looking to join a team of driven, collaborative, and positive professionals, grow your career, and contribute meaningfully to your community? Sounds like this opportunity might be the perfect fit At Gulf & Fraser, we strive to create a future where everyone in our communities can achieve financial wellness. For over 80 years, Gulf & Fraser has invested in what we value most: our members, partners, employees, and our communities. We are proud to serve our members across BC by offering reliable advice, a welcoming environment, and a full range of personal and business banking, investment, and insurance solutions. We help our members find the best options to fulfill their financial potential. We believe in the power of progressive thinking and positive action to take incredible steps forward in every aspect of life.

**What this role is all about**:
The Manager, Commercial Credit contributes to the provision of service excellence to Gulf & Fraser’s members by leading and directing commercial credit operations, adjudications and assisting in its ongoing development. The incumbent collaborates with departments and commercial team to provide support and direction to ensure efficient and effective commercial credit operations in an ongoing effort to providing an overall positive member experience. Reporting to the AVP, Credit, this position plays a key role in the credit approval process for commercial operations.

**What you’ll do**:

- Provides advice and guidance on large, complex loans or other commercial credit issues, and provides technical direction as required.
- Monitors processing and loan underwriting methods to ensure quality, delinquency control, overdrafts, policy and documentation requirements and requirements set out by regulators & auditors are satisfied.
- Coordinates the dissemination of loan policies and procedures; ensures employees follow loan underwriting policies and any policy deviations are corrected.
- Oversees monthly audits and conducts random reviews of commercial credit files.
- Oversees, coordinates preparation of and verifies a variety of regular and ad-hoc reports.
- Manages the credit process to meet quality and target turnaround timelines as well as manages accurate and timely risk assessments of existing loans. Assesses credit practices for evolving needs and recommends policy and procedure improvements to support productivity and efficiency of commercial lending program.
- Collaborates with branches and partner departments on a variety of initiatives such as campaigns, projects and training programs.
- Provides mentorship to employees on commercial credit-related topics.

**A little about your qualifications**:

- Post-secondary business degree or diploma
- Minimum 7-9 years’ progressive experience in commercial credit
- At least 5 years’ experience in underwriting
- Experience with a wide variety of commercial lending, including construction, development, industrial, income and balance sheet lending.
- Equivalent combination of the above may be appropriate
- Ability to determine creditworthiness (commercial/business lending) for short-and long-term debt repayment
- Proactive and collaborative approach
- Equivalent combination of the above may be appropriate

**What you’ll gain**:

- Competitive base salary, reviewed annually
- An incentive bonus plan
- Flexible, top-notch benefits plan - choose what’s important to you, whether it’s a transit pass, gym membership, or additional vacation time
- Flexible, hybrid work environment #LI-hybrid
- Annual time off to recharge - vacation starting at 3 weeks and 12 personal days
- Amazing RRSP program - we contribute at a great rate, whether you choose to contribute yourself or not
- Loans at preferred interest rates, discounted banking accounts and credit cards, unique banking instruments, professional financial advice - we are a credit union, after all
- Professional development - we’re truly committed to our team’s growth through in-house training, personal coaching, leadership development programs, mentorship, tuition reimbursement, professional dues coverage, and conference participation
- Connect and feel recognized through social events, Employee Recognition Night, and an employee recognition program that translates into real rewards

**Who we are**:
**_ Power your possible_**_TM_**_._** At Gulf & Fraser, growth and development is an important facet of your experience and we encourage everyone to progress and contribute in a meaningful way. Here, you can develop and further your career alongside a team of passionate, empowered and engaged professionals who recognize the power of collaboration, innovation, recognition, and driving their own success. For us, the vision of ‘Power your possible_TM_ extends to our teams, as well as our members.

**_ Drive, contribute, grow - together. _**We are stronger together and are proud to foster a caring, open-minded, and inclusive culture. We embrace diversity of backgroun