Mortgage Loan Administrative Assistant

Position Purpose

The Mortgage Loan Administrative Assistant First Bank of Wyoming supports the operations of the Mortgage Department. This includes providing superior customer service, ensuring the smooth and efficient processing of mortgage applications, and maintaining regulatory compliance. The Mortgage Loan Administrative Assistant will manage communications, assist with loan documentation, support Mortgage Loan Originators, and ensure that all processes adhere to company policies and legal requirements while adhering to and exemplifying our Core Values: Embrace Responsibility, Execute with Excellence, Pursue Growth & Learning, and Thrive Together.

Essential Functions

• Greets Mortgage customers and schedules appointments for Mortgage Loan Originators
• Receives calls and answers questions from customers and Mortgage Loan Originators while carrying out exemplary customer service
• Assists clients with applications and paperwork for the mortgage loan process
• Collect and review documentation, run credit reports
• Assist Mortgage Loan Originators with managing both TBD and active loan pipelines, ensuring accurate and timely follow-up in reviewing these pipelines.
• Ensure Reg B and disclosure timelines are met
• Support Mortgage Loan Originators with providing follow up and monitoring files that require adverse action and decisioning
• Coordinates loan closings with applicable parties
• Works on marketing projects for the Mortgage Dept.
• Coordinates and facilitates ongoing communication with referral sources and past borrowers
• Strong work ethic
• Assists clients when Mortgage Loan Originators are out of the office
• Comply with all company policies and procedures, and applicable laws and regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act, the Patriot Act, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Adhere to First Bank of Wyoming’s Core Values.
• Keeps management appropriately informed of area activities and of any significant problems.
• Participate in Community Service and Bank sponsored activities that serve and support the mission and values of First Bank of Wyoming.
• Provide superior internal and external customer service: must demonstrate self-governance, courtesy and respect toward external customers as well as internal customers (all organization personnel).
• Represent First Bank of Wyoming in a professional manner which includes a professional image, confidentiality, a positive “can-do” attitude, good attendance, punctuality, flexibility and adaptability in meeting bank and customer needs.
• Keep work area tidy and maintain customer privacy. Attends and participates in meetings as required.
• Participates in required training, staff meetings, and lobby displays.
• Regular and predictable attendance in order to accomplish, among other things, in-person contact with customers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• 0-2 years of similar or related experience, including preparatory experience.
• High school diploma is required; Associate degree is preferred.
  • An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be considered.
• Prior banking experience is preferred
• Knowledge of the mortgage industry and terms and systems is preferred

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Strong ability to solve problems and prioritize multiple tasks and responsibilities.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective personal working relationships with peers and supervisors.
• Skilled in meeting and greeting the public.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and details simultaneously.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions.
• Employee must be self-motivated, able to work quickly and accurately, and flexible in day-to-day activities.
• Employee must be a team player with a passion for customer service and a proven ability to build rapport and work effectively with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Attention to detail as well as excellent organizational skills to perform in a fast-paced environment.
• Must have the ability to prioritize and organize heavy workloads and demonstrate effective time management skills.
• Must have the ability to work quickly and accurately, perform effectively under pressure, meet multiple and sometimes competing deadlines, and make decisions based on regulations, company policies, knowledge, and experience.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Must have the ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Must have the ability to understand and follow complex written and oral instructions.
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer skills with working knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, ten-key, and general computer applications.
• Working knowledge of standard office equipment.

Interpersonal Skills:

A significant level of trust, credibility and diplomacy is required. In-depth dialogues, conversations and explanations with customers, direct and indirect reports and outside vendors can be of a sensitive and/or highly confidential nature. Communications may involve motivating, influencing, educating and/or advising others on matters of significance.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to: sit; use hands in repetitive motions to finger, grasp, handle or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to: stand; walk; and lift or reach with hands and arms. The employee may also be required to: Climb (Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.) Balance (Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.) Stoop (Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.) Stoop (Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.) Kneel (Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.) Crouch (Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.) Crawl (Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.) Push (Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.) Pull (Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.)

Must be able to operate routine office equipment including computer terminals and keyboards, telephones, copiers, facsimiles, and calculators. Must be able to routinely perform work on computer for an average of 6-8 hours per day, when necessary. Must be able to work extended hours or travel off site whenever required or requested by management. Must be capable of regular, reliable and timely attendance. Must be capable of climbing / descending stairs in an emergency situation.

Specific lifting abilities required by this job include: Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include: The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation/inspection of machines and/or using measurement devices at distances close to the eyes.

Working conditions: Must be able to routinely perform work indoors in climate-controlled shared work area with moderate noise level.

Travel: Occasional travel required: (less than 10 days per year) by automobile (as driver and passenger), commercial airlines, rental vehicles and public transportation and be able to lodge in public facilities.

Mental Requirements: Must be able to perform job functions independently or with limited supervision and work effectively either on own or as part of a team. Must be able to read and carry out various written instructions and follow oral instructions. Must be able to speak clearly and deliver information in a logical and understandable sequence. Must be capable of dealing calmly and professionally with numerous different personalities from diverse cultures at various levels within and outside of the organization and demonstrate highest levels of customer service and discretion when dealing with the public. Must be able to perform responsibilities with composure under the stress of deadlines / requirements for extreme accuracy and quality and/or fast pace. Must be able to effectively handle multiple, simultaneous, and changing priorities. Must be capable of exercising highest level of discretion on both internal and external confidential matters.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS: Starting salary is dependent upon relevant experience and may vary based on the geographic location of the position. We offer an extensive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, a health savings account option, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), a health rewards program, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, discounts on banking products and services, Paid Time Off (PTO) and holidays. Visit our website for more details!

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