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Underwriting Lead
$175K–$225K
New York · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of commercial credit underwriting experience.
About the job
Underwrite business accounts and exposure changes, make defensible credit decisions, and build consistent, scalable underwriting processes.
What you'll do
- Analyze applications and prepare credit memos and recommendations, exercising delegated authority or escalating cases as required by policy.
- Manage underwriting operations, including queue health, turnaround, documentation, metrics, calibration, and quality reviews.
- Partner across teams to improve decisioning and auditability, and train future underwriting staff.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of commercial credit underwriting experience.
- Ability to analyze financial statements, cash flow, liquidity, leverage, repayment capacity, bank activity, and bureau or alternative data.
- Sound judgment in ambiguous cases and a record of writing concise, defensible credit recommendations.
- Experience with credit policy, delegated authority, exception governance, and regulated or bank-partner environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with SMBs, commercial cards, working-capital products, or fintech lending.
Pay
$175K – $225K (base salary; currency not stated)
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