Miryco are working with a Mortgage provider at an exciting phase of their growth trajectory.
The team is expanding and a new role has become available as an Underwriting Manager specifically in charge of:
* Immediate referral point for complex mortgage cases
* Operational – efficiencies/automation
* Developing/performance coaching – objectives/review process for direct reports
Key Responsibilities
* Inspiring Leadership: Motivate and influence the team to exceed expectations, fostering a high performance culture where individuals achieve results beyond their perceived limits.
* Commercial & Operational Leadership: Manage daily workflow, allocate cases, monitor SLAs, and resolve operational issues with a focus on efficiency.
* Application Journey Ownership: Oversee full lifecycle from intake to offer, ensuring accurate assessments and timely outputs that support business growth.
* Performance Management & Development: Lead, coach, and mentor the underwriting team; set clear objectives, manage performance, and create tailored development plans to build capability and expertise.
* Broker Management & Internal Collaboration: Act as escalation point for broker referrals and partner closely with Sales/BDM teams to optimise conversion and broker satisfaction.
* First Line Quality Assurance: Conduct and supervise QA checks, root cause analysis, and implement improvement actions to enhance quality and reduce risk.
* Risk, Compliance & Controls: Ensure adherence to policy, regulatory frameworks, and exception governance while maintaining a strong control environment.
* Process Effectiveness: Review existing processes, identify and contribute towards process enhancement and efficiency
Required Skills and Experience
* Proven leadership in underwriting and credit operations, with a track record of driving performance within a Specialist or Residential Mortgage environment.
* Credible technical authority – Proven track record and technical understanding of complex income, adverse credit and non-standard property.
* Ability to apply judgement, guide and lead where cases fall outside advertised criteria.
* Operational Excellence in a Scale Up Environment.
* Overall responsibility for UW pipelines, SLA’s and overcoming volume-based service demands
* Excellent communicator and able to provide clear and concise recommendations to the Credit Committee at transaction level, ensuring strong rationale provided.
* Experience in contract variations such as Porting and Product Transfer and post offer mortgage conditions.
* Ideally an existing lending mandate essential up to £750,000 in residential lending
I am afraid our client cannot provide sponsorship for this position.
Please note, should you not be contacted within ten working days of submitting your application, then unfortunately you have not been shortlisting for this position. We will, however, be in touch should there be any other opportunities of potential interest suiting to your skills.
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