Life Underwriting Supervisor jobs in Columbus, OH

As an Underwriting Supervisor, you will be responsible to develop and maintain underwriting strategies and procedures to minimize risk and ensure a controlled environment.  This includes contributing to long term planning as well as initiatives geared toward operational excellence.  This role also supports maintaining adherence to investor and regulatory requirements, capacity model, staffing, and offshore alliances with other line of businesses.
In addition, you will communicate decision (approval, suspense, denial) to appropriate individuals or to other line of business, and uphold fair lending practices of JPMorgan Chase Mortgage.  Ensuing  underwriting team meets targets for productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction, and perform second review of underwritten denials. 

Chase is one of the largest U.S. providers of banking, lending, treasury, wealth management and investment services. Chase serves 50 million customers, including consumers, small businesses, mid-size companies, corporations, financial  institutions, non-profits and governments. The focus of Chase’s Home Lending business is to deliver an unmatched customer experience through building lasting relationships, exceeding  expectations, being courteous and professional, doing the right thing and owning customer inquiries from start to finish.
 

This is a hybrid role (3 days in office/2 remote)

Job Responsibilities

• Partner with Operations to identify process break root cause and help develop improved controls/efficiencies leading to reduced risk and improved production. 
• Create/Maintain a positive working environment which encourages participation to attain business and individual objectives. 
• Coordinate with senior managers and supervisors to establish production and quality control standards. 
• Run meetings with staff to review production, process updates, employee acknowledgements and other related items. 
• Provide leadership, communication, and coaching to employees; cultivate a motivated employee environment of trust, teamwork, accountability, self-confidence, and business ownership. 
• Establish and maintains strong working relationships with key members of Operations through ongoing coordination of operational matters and utilizing effective communication and when warranted, conflict and resolution skills. 
• Adherence to Policy and Procedural changes/updates and identify key risks and develop monitoring programs which identify the level of exposure to these risks. 

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and skills

• Minimum 5 years managing others, with evidence of matrix management and outstanding results
• Minimum of 7 years Conventional and 5 years Government mortgage underwriting experience
• HUD Direct Endorsement (DE) and VA credit 
• Expertise in Government, Agency and Jumbo guidelines as well as understanding of Government lending
• Possess Risk and Control competencies. 
• Ability to delegate effectively. 
• Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain top talent.