Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abrigo provides technology that community financial institutions use to manage risk and drive growth through solutions for anti-money laundering, fraud detection, CECL readiness, and lending workflows. The Senior Consultant – Lending & Credit will lead advisory engagements, provide strategic recommendations, and serve as a subject matter expert in lending, credit risk, and financial strategy. The role will advise clients on policies, decision models, loan origination workflows, credit risk frameworks, strategic planning, and regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Lead advisory engagements and serve as a subject matter expert in lending, credit risk, and financial strategy
- Provide recommendations and develop deliverables on best practices for credit and lending policies and procedures
- Consult clients in developing small business lending decision models
- Analyze and optimize loan origination workflow efficiencies, ensuring alignment with industry best practices from application to loan closing
- Guide financial institutions in establishing and refining credit risk frameworks, including risk rating systems and risk scorecards
- Stay current on credit-related compliance requirements and demonstrate a willingness to research and integrate new regulations into advisory offerings
- Support financial institutions in enterprise strategic planning initiatives
- Deliver formal reports and presentations to client leadership teams, ensuring actionable insights and high-quality recommendations
- Provide insights and thought leadership on topics that define the current banking landscape
- Other duties as assigned
- Occasional travel required for team events to support engagement, relationship-building, and key decision-making
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
- Proven experience in developing, implementing, and refining credit policies to align with regulatory requirements and institutional risk management strategies
- Prior experience in enterprise strategic planning
- A broad range of experience, preferably in community banking, with exposure to multiple functional areas
- Executive committee experience may substitute for direct lending experience
- Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and industry advancements
- Proactive approach to leveraging innovative tools and solutions to enhance client outcomes
- Certifications, such as CPA, banking/finance certifications, and/or graduate school of banking completion preferred
- Familiarity with small business lending decision modeling, loan pricing, strategic planning, and asset-liability management components is a plus
Benefits
- Remote or hybrid work arrangement, with hybrid work based at the Raleigh, NC or Austin, TX office
- Full health benefits with an HSA option
- Flexible PTO and bank holidays
- 401(k) plan and company match
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