Kind Consultancy is working with a succesful and growing challenger bank which is currently seeking a Lending Administration Officer to join them in a full-time 12-month fixed-term contract based in their West Midlands offices.

The Lending Administration Officer will provide efficient administration support to customers and Relationship Managers, with key responsibilities including:

• Liaising with Credit Underwriting staff to ensure all approval conditions and Terms & Conditions Schedules are understood and deliverable
• Ensuring facility letters are issued on a timely basis, are accurate and include all agreed terms and conditions and are duly accepted by customers within agreed timescales
• Collaborating with external law firms to ensure all facility documentation, including security documentation, is completed accurately and mitigates the bank's risks, where appropriate
• Ensuring that internal procedures are satisfactorily completed prior to new facility drawdown (including property valuations, security perfection and pre-conditions)
• Maintaining timely and accurate Salesforce records to ensure progression of deals is documented appropriately
• Taking all agreed fees and recording these accurately on Salesforce
• Ensuring drawdowns are properly co-ordinated, authorised and correctly loaded on the banking system
• Managing the release of security, seeking the appropriate approval, as required
• Updating bank systems on a timely basis to accurately reflect terms of approved facilities
• Identifying and recommending ideas for process efficiencies

For the Lending Administration Officer we're looking for candidates who:

• Have strong operational knowledge of bank processes and key regulatory/legal issues and of banking technology, payment systems and processes, telephony etc.
• Have working knowledge of Facility Letters and Security documents
• Have experience of working with Business, Commercial and Corporate customers within a Financial Services/Banking context
• Demonstrate excellent communication and listening skills
• Are highly numerate, solution focussed and results driven
• Display consistently strong attention to detail
• Holding a banking qualification would be desirable

If you're interested in the Lending Administration Officer opportunity, you have the necessary skills, knowledge and experience and you're based in or can commute to the West Midlands, please send an updated CV today.