Manager, CRE Loan Servicing and Asset Management

About this role

The Manager will report to a Senior Manager, Commercial Servicing Operations and will oversee a team of Asset Managers and Portfolio Managers overseeing Commercial Real Estate (“CRE”) loans. This team will include 3-10 direct reports.The Manager will share responsibility for hiring, training, and evaluating existing team members.Additionally, the Manager will handle escalated items for both Investors and Borrowers and is expected to fully understand day-to-day CRE servicing responsibilities as well as multiple product types of CRE loans, including Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CBMS), debt fund, and Single-Family Residential (SFR) loans.Manager will act as a backup point of contact for other business units at Onity for inter-company projects, system enhancements, and other items as they arise.Manager will monitor reports and team performance to proactively identify portfolio risks, employee training opportunities, and engage with staff to ensure that all reporting metrics, contractual obligations, and covenant monitoring requirements are met. Manager may have a portfolio of loans assigned to them for daily workload.Individuals in this role are required to adhere to investor servicing guidelines, internal policies, and procedures.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements

• Customer Service and Escalation Management:

• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex Borrower and Investor matters, managing relationships with Borrowers, Investors, Master Servicers, and third-party stakeholders. Resolve servicing issues, facilitate transactions, and deliver a high level of customer service

• Partner with Asset Management, Special Servicing, Legal, Compliance, and other internal stakeholders to address portfolio challenges, execute complex transactions, support strategic business objectives, and monitor reporting to ensure team performance meets client and contract expectations

• Team Building:

• Lead and support a team of Asset Managers and Portfolio Managers, providing adequate ongoing training, guidance, coaching, and oversight to ensure timely and accurate management of loan servicing activities and Borrower requests

• Monitor team workflows, staffing levels, and servicing activities to ensure Borrower inquiries, consent requests, reserve disbursements, covenant monitoring, and loan administration tasks are completed within established expectations

• Provide adequate training and direction to team members

• Lead team building sessions and ongoing meetings with direct reports and broader team to ensure engagement and issue resolution

• Portfolio Management:

• Analyze portfolio trends and servicing metrics to identify risks, opportunities, and operational efficiencies, providing recommendations to senior management as appropriate

• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives by evaluating current procedures, strengthening controls, and implementing best practices to enhance operational effectiveness and portfolio management outcomes

• Manage portfolio performance monitoring, including watchlist assets, covenant compliance, maturity exposure, and other risk indicators, while escalating concerns and recommending appropriate action when necessary

• Facilitate and contribute to monthly Watchlist meetings, ensuring asset-level performance concerns, Borrower challenges, and risk mitigation strategies are clearly communicated and documented

• Assist with the planning and execution of special projects, system enhancements, process implementations, and other department initiatives

• Prepare and review management reports, portfolio summaries, and team performance metrics to support business planning, resource allocation, and leadership decision-making

• Strong knowledge of CRE loan participation and insurance coverage requirements

• Spread and analyze property level financial statements and provide training to Asset Managers for complex assets

• Contract Management:

• Maintain a thorough understanding of servicing agreements, loan documents, cash management structures, and Investor guidelines to support servicing platform and ensure contractual compliance

• Ability to understand and interpret contractual requirements and to be able to effectively pass knowledge to team members

• Ensure compliance with all contract terms by both the Servicing Team and other business units within Onity

• Work with other business units to provide training and support as necessary in order to ensure contract compliance

• Review reporting to ensure accurate calculations on client reporting to ensure contract compliance

• Ability to read, interpret, and teach PSA, TSA, SSA, and Servicing Agreements

• System Management:

• Ability to effectively communicate reporting needs to other departments in order to enable them to build out various reports to fit client and Onity needs

• Strong understanding of system and bank accounting structures and cash flow

• Demonstrated ability to train reports and other business units on intricacies of servicing system

• Other Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Adapt quickly to various requests from multiple sources

• Prioritize multiple, simultaneous incoming requests, all seen as urgent priority

• Work with internal business units to develop reports for investors as required

• Coordinate with internal departments for servicing functions as required.

• Proactively review and update internal policies and procedures as required

• Assist with audit and rating agency requests and presentations

• Lead Commercial team trainings

• Assist in the preparation of presentations for investors, management, and internal business units

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates positive attitude, adds to a positive team morale, and is eager to take on and learn new things

• Four year degree from an accredited University preferred or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 10 years of CRE loan servicing experience required, 1 – 2 years in a…