Assess applicant’s creditworthiness for housing loan applications in accordance to the Bank’s credit policies
Conduct verification for Housing Loan applications and analyze documents provided
Ensure applications are processed within the agreed Service Level Agreement
Now based on the job description, is this the same thing as what a Credit Analyst would do? Can this type of a job be considered to be that of a Credit Analyst even if the official job title here is a Credit Processing Officer? Or are they two different things?
Thanks!
Edit: Also, based on the job description, what are the future prospects like? Is this kind of a job decent for a fresh grad? Specifically, I am interested in Credit Risk under Corporate Baking…will this be a good place to start for that?
Credit processing officer checks the creditworthiness of individual applicants for loans. Most likely by doing data entry of personal information and running it through software that gives a thumbs up or thumbs down or maximum loan and rate info. You might get to be more involved in borderline cases.
A credit analyst looks at a business and makes a judgment about whether the yield on the business’s debt is in line with the risks of holding the debt. It’s more of an investment type position in line with the sort of things on the CFA exam.
There’s some overlap in the knowledge required, but it’s likely that individual loans have a pretty standardized process that you won’t have much flexibility to add value to other than just following the formula your management sets out.
I might be wrong, but from the job description, it sounds like the credit processing officer is more of a clerical type of job than a true investment job. A bit like the difference between the guys at your local bank branch that ask you if you’ve considered opening a retirement account with them vs the guys at a mutual fund deciding whether you should have more or less GOOG in the portfolio…
Ok, just to be clear I’m not from the US, but still I assume financial and banking systems must work roughly the same around the world.
Nevertheless, assuming I can’t find a job as a Credit Analyst right now, would it be wise to accept the offer I have for the Credit Processing Officer role and then try for the Credit Analyst role that I want in about 6 months to a year? Would that 6-12 months of experience benefit an application for the position of a Credit Analyst? I have a degree in Actuarial Science and would love a more analytical role in banking, but times are a bit tough here and I’m not entirely sure what should I do. Wait 2-3 more months and keep trying to find and apply for a Credit Analyst job, or take what I have and starting applying for what I want in 6-12 months time.
Also, how many different types of Credit Analyst roles can that be within a banking organization? Like Commercial Credit Analyst, Corporate Credit Analyst…anything more? Thanks and appreciate your reply!
Yeah, don’t take it, you are just a loan processor based on the description. I assume the credit analyst role you want is analyzing company fundamentals as it relates to their ability to service their debt, this is very different from a loan officer. There won’t be anything transferrable, try to get something in the commercial lending department is probably better at this point if you want to move to a “credit analyst” role sometime in the future or leveraged finance.
I think the decision on whether to take it or not is contingent on your capabilities/marketability.
If you have poor grades, come from a hacksaw school, have no good internships or marketable skills, your job search has been long and unfruitful, and really just need your foot in the door then yeah, take the job if you need the money.
If you have decent/good grades, come from a good school, intelligent, ambitious, you can afford to wait, then by no means should you go for this job. It has soul-destroying written all over it. I would know, I’ve done my time. So it’s really up to your life circumstances and trajectory. No one will judge you either way if you work this job for the short term while you look for something better. The key is not to get stuck there.