Position title: Senior Loans Analyst

File: FCC260-12/13

Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Closing date: Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Division: Operations

Language requirement: English

Contribute to our successful sales team
Working with customer-facing sales staff, you’ll prepare credit submissions, write credit proposals, assess the risk of those proposals and recommend loan structures. You’ll provide advice and recommendations to the team for their negotiations with agribusiness and agri-food customers. You have significant expertise in credit analysis, a degree in business or agriculture, and at least four years of commercial or agricultural lending experience (or equivalent).

These competencies describe the required behaviours and expectations for the position:

ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCIES JOB COMPETENCIES

Agility
Acknowledges both organizational and personal capacity to change, based on what is and is not possible or probable. Knows when to say no. Changes approach accordingly, even though this may entail considerable effort to meet the organization’s needs.

Customer experience
Undertakes a regular exchange of information with customers and/or co-workers for mutual benefit to build a network of trust. Manages these relationships on an ongoing basis to ensure alignment and efficiency of effort.

Initiative
Makes well-thought-out modifications to systems or processes to improve both their impact and performance.

Learning and innovation
Develops a cross-boundary approach to learning by gaining information from multiple sources and encourages this in others as a strategy for continual improvement. Adapts communication for different audiences.

Solution focus
Analyzes relationships among several parts of a problem or situation. Demonstrates resilience by developing personal tactics and techniques to deal with issues and changes encountered in resolving problems.

Teamwork and partnership
Makes sure the practical needs of the team are met. Uses different leadership styles in response to the needs and goals of the team.

 

Analytical thinking
Determines new approaches of analysis to better understand very complex situations and develop solutions, while considering long-term implications and impacts.

Customer business sense
Develops an independent understanding of the possibilities, potential and risks associated with a customer’s business. Builds and sustains long-term partnerships with customers based on a thorough understanding of their businesses. Intuitively anticipates and responds to customers’ unexpressed, unarticulated business needs.

Effective communication
Talks straight and suspends judgment when conveying relevant, important and/or negative information or opinions. Communicates with emotional maturity and insight, seeing things from different perspectives.

Impact and influence
Seeks to get things done by taking multiple actions to have an impact on others with differing points of view.

Judgment and decision-making
Makes and supports or alters decisions based on the long-term implications to the customer and the organization. Is capable of developing, modifying or using different decision-making processes to positively impact multiple stakeholders.

Relationship building
Develops and nurtures contacts with individuals or groups in different parts of the organization or beyond the organization. Establishes broad-based relationships, networks or groups to facilitate opportunities to discuss and share information.