Completions Team Leader – 1st Charge Mortgages Permanent | UK mortgage lender | First charge residential & specialist lending This is a hands-on leadership role within a 1st charge mortgage completions function, suited to an experienced completions professional who enjoys ownership, technical decision-making, and improving outcomes in a regulated environment. You’ll lead a completions team responsible for taking cases from offer through to funds release, ensuring every completion is accurate, compliant, and delivered with minimal friction for brokers, solicitors, and customers. The role combines people leadership with senior case oversight, risk control, and process improvement. Why this role? Genuine operational leadership – You are the senior escalation point for complex or high-risk completions, with real authority over decisions and outcomes. Technical depth, not volume processing – This is a role for someone who understands completions risk, legal documentation, and regulatory obligations, not just throughput. Influence over how things are done – You’ll shape workflows, contribute to policy and procedural updates, and help improve turnaround times without compromising compliance. Specialist lending exposure – Ideal for candidates who value complexity and judgement over purely vanilla residential work. The role You will be responsible for the end-to-end completions process for 1s...