Midwest BankCentre is proud to be recognized as one of St. Louis’ Top Workplaces for 2021, 2022 and 2023!
About Midwest BankCentre
Midwest BankCentre is a values-based bank that has been a mainstay of St. Louis community banking since 1906. Our purpose is to help regional communities thrive by creating the conditions to help Main Street, marginalized communities and multicultural markets live into their full potential. We work to empower people, enable business and energize neighborhoods through the strength of our financial services, including personalized consumer and business banking, business cash management, mortgage lending, home equity loans, financial planning and investments, insurance and digital banking.
We are committed to making meaningful, long-term investments in communities that lift everyone up so we can all RISE TOGETHER. Our commitment to shared prosperity, our investment in Community and Economic Development and our dedication to diversity and inclusion are reflected is the ways Midwest BankCentre lives its purpose.
A few more facts about Midwest BankCentre:

• We are ranked as one of the top employers in the region because of our commitment to our team members and the communities we serve.
• We rank among the St. Louis Region’s largest locally owned banks.
• We have 16 locations throughout Missouri and Illinois, including the City of St. Louis and St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson, and St. Clair Counties.
• We have state of the art online and mobile banking platforms that allow us to meet customers where they are to help them get to where they want to be.
• We foster a culture that supports your success and professional growth.

Objectives of this Role

• Analyzes and audits pre-closing documentation to produce regulatory required loan documents.
• Manages workflow for documentation, new, renewals and modifications, for all branches.
• Essential to creating and maintaining a centralized loan documentation environment to perfect the bank’s security interest.
• Offers assistance and answers questions as needed.
• Oversee management of flood database to ensure compliance with flood regulations.
• Oversee management of forced placed insurance to include hazard and flood coverages.
• Responsible for training of loan staff, loan coordinators and lenders regarding documentation, regulatory, bank policies and procedures.
• Continuously work to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work collaboratively with our commercial team to ensure quality customer service.
• Optimize staff capability and productivity and ensure execution of the Bank’s strategic initiatives.
• Coach and develop loan staff to drive process improvement and optimize efficiencies.
• Strengthen employee development and ensure performance management of team members.
• Engage the bank’s external legal counsel as approved.

Essential Functions

• Review prepared loan documentation to perfect the bank’s security interest, under a centralized environment.
• Manage day to day responsibilities of the documentation team.
• Administer and maintain LaserPro doc Prep system for all required updates and changes per regulation and bank policy.
• Management of Core Logic and Missouri Department of Motor Vehicle databases to add and/or remove authorized users as needed.
• Approve wires within delegated authority.
• Ability to pivot and assist in multiple areas within the department, as needed, to ensure departmental success.
• Assist in developing, implementing, and evaluating department policies and procedures.
• Effectively onboard and train all new team hires.
• Conduct ongoing performance and development conversations with each team member
• Create, revise, and update policies and procedures.
• Actively participate, as requested, in enterprise and departmental projects
• Lender/Lender Support assistance
• Order supplies.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities are as required and may change at any time with or without notice.
Nature of Internal Customers

• Lenders, Lender Support, Loan Operations, Mortgage, Consumer, Small Business, Deposit Operations, Retail and Customer Engagement Center

Nature of External Customers

• Loan customers, 3rd party vendors and participating banks

Competencies

• Customer Centric Focus
• Agent of Change
• Skilled Leader that Empowers Teams
• Excellent Communicator, both written and oral
• Results Oriented with the Ability to Execute on Bank Initiatives
• Driver of Diversity and Inclusion
• Acts with Integrity
• Collaborates Across Bank Channels
• Possesses Strong Business Acumen

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience preferred
• 5 years of commercial loan documentation management experience required
• Detail oriented with excellent organizational skills
• Ability to handle high workload and prioritize multiple tasks to insure timely completion
• Required proficiency with regulatory requirements as well as internal bank policies
• Professional telephone etiquette required
• Must be able to work accurately under time constraints
• Proficient with Laser Pro, including admin, doc prep system experience and all Microsoft office products, as well as mainframe systems
• Strong analytical skills
• Create, revise, and update policies and procedures
• Have excellent typing skills
• Ability to pass a background check

Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen. This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every listed qualification. Midwest BankCentre is recognized nationally for its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices and embraces these practices as a competitive advantage.
If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be the right candidate for this or other Midwest BankCentre roles!
AAP/EEO Statement
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position and Midwest BankCentre. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.