Community Development Banking News

CDFI Banking: Industry, Policy, and Beyond. 

Nonprofit organization Foundation for Louisiana seeks a community investment fund manager to provide leadership for its loan fund and to serve as the coordinator of the One Table community development pilot initiative. This position provides analysis of individual loan and loan portfolio performance, including loan fund cash flow projections, tracking current repayments and disbursements, long term projection of disbursements and repayments and preparing management level reports.

CDBA member OneUnited Bank seeks an AVP/senior loan underwriter. This position is responsible for the underwriting of multifamily and commercial loans in accordance with the guidelines, policies and procedures set forth by the bank. The senior loan underwriter will work with a team of lending professionals to originate multi-family and commercial loans for the bank’s portfolio. Additional duties may include support in the loan origination and loan servicing areas to support the lending department.

The CDFI Fund has several open positions

Senior Advisor

The senior advisor provides information, advice and analysis to the CDFI Director. The incumbent will make recommendations concerning CDFI strategy, develop financial policy, produce analysis and write reports. This position also represents the CDFI fund in meetings with other senior Treasury representatives and with other agencies.

Compliance and Certification Officer

The compliance and certification officer is involved in the administration of agency certification programs, monitoring awardees' performance and taking enforcement actions. This position monitors awardees for compliance with CDFI Fund award agreements and federal rules, applying sanctions when appropriate and evaluating applications for certification status.

Financial services nonprofit Doorways to Dreams Fund seeks a senior innovation manager to design and deliver innovative financial solutions to help low and moderate-income households build financial security. The incumbent will manage strategic relationships with financial institutions and service providers to test and evaluate the organization’s innovations.

The chief of strategic initiatives is responsible for analyzing the most promising new initiatives in order to enhance TRF's business lines. This position manages a research and development fund to support the initiatives and approval process. This role includes developing and coordinating the requisite financial, talent and stakeholder inputs for a new initiative to succeed while ensuring that all new initiatives match the key themes and assumptions of TRF’s strategic plan.

CDBA member Beneficial State Bank has several open positions.

Credit Analyst

Credit analysts support the business banking and commercial real estate lending teams in the origination and servicing of credit relationships. They are responsible for underwriting all credit requests and analyzing the repayment capacity of customers. Additionally, they support the monitoring of borrower compliance with approved terms.

Portfolio Manager

The portfolio manager is responsible for the administrative management of the specific assigned lending relationships of commercial and SBA loan portfolios. The administrative management of the account includes ensuring that compliance and covenant information is up to date and complete within credit files and ensuring clear communication with the borrower.

 

CDBA member First American International Bank has several open positions.

Business Analyst

(Brooklyn, N.Y.)

The business analyst is responsible for ensuring business units receive the information and technology assistance necessary to accomplish their goals and objectives. This position diagnoses and resolves technical problems and assists with ongoing system requirements, solution specification, user testing and procedures of the bank's automated loan origination system.

Loan Risk Review/Credit Analyst

(Brooklyn, N.Y.)

The loan risk review/credit analyst assists the chief credit officer and the risk management head, monitoring and managing credit risk within the bank’s lending activities. Duties include providing an objective assessment of loans in order to identify potential problems and ensuring compliance with established loan policies and federal regulations.

Residential Mortgage Loan Officer

(Queens and Brooklyn, N.Y.)

The residential mortgage loan officer solicits and manages new residential loan business and maintains customer relationships. The incumbent responds to customer inquiries, ensuring customers are informed of all mortgage products offered by the bank. The mortgage loan officer also develops business partner banking relationship through marketing, cold-calling, prospecting and networking activities.

CDBA member City First Bank of D.C. is currently seeking an information system manager responsible for the managing the bank’s information systems and related functions to ensure the availability, continuity, compliance, accuracy and security of data and information technology services. This position will work under the direction of the chief financial officer/chief information security officer.

CDBA Member City First Bank is currently seeking a chief credit officer responsible for oversight and management of the underwriting, special asset and credit administration functions of the bank. This position is responsible for establishing written loan and credit policies which meet regulatory safety and soundness standards for board approval.

CDBA member Virginia Community Capital seeks a chief risk officer focusing heavily on credit risk and administration. This position reports directly to the CEO and will help lead the organization through analysis of potential risk areas while working with other managers to manage risk. The chief risk officer is responsible for the enterprise-wide oversight of risk. Credit review, portfolio analysis and outsourced internal audits are also managed through this position. 

 

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