Lead Lease Servicing Specialist

A career at CoBank can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on the people and communities where we do business. When you choose a career with CoBank, you make a difference by standing for something that matters. In order to be the best, we hire the best!

Remarkable Benefits Offered by CoBank

• Careers with a purpose. Stand for something!
• Time-Off Packages, 15 days of vacation, 10 paid sick days and 11 paid holidays
• Competitive Compensation & Incentive
• Hybrid work model: flexible arrangements for most positions
• Benefits Packages, including Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Disability, AD&D, and Life Insurance
• Robust associate training and development with CoBank University
• Tuition reimbursement for higher education up to 10K per year
• Outstanding 401k: up to 6% matching and additional 3% non-elective contribution
• Community Impact: United Way Angel Day, Volunteer Day and Associate Directed Contribution
• Associate Resource Groups: creating a culture of diversity and inclusion
• Recognize a fellow associate through our GEM awards

Performs highest level of lease origination, maintenance and servicing activities for lease transactions. Works in a team environment and collaborates with specialists, asset management, credit, accounts payable and tax to ensure that lease origination and servicing commitments are fulfilled, and to facilitate continuous process improvement. Responsible for workflow prioritization.Identifies, analyzes and resolves issues, answers questions, and proactively identifies challenges and risks to support quality control. Provides periodic status to leadership and team members. Assists management with mentoring, training and continuous improvement activities. Serves as a resource and subject matter expert (SME) for lower level Specialists. Provides back-up for management, assists in training, and facilitates cross-team work-flows.

1. Concentrates efforts on portfolio management and servicing activities over the life of a lease. Performs appropriate due diligence according to Farm Credit Leasing (FCL) policies and authority limits.
2. Completes various activities to meet internal, partner and customer commitments as well as quality goals and service level agreements (SLAs) of the department.
3. Provides back-up for other team members in support of workload balancing.
4. Serves as a subject matter expert in multiple functional areas. Contributes to a culture of transparency and continuous improvement by creating awareness to issues and risks, analyzes root cause, effectively communicates and escalates issues to management in a timely manner; identifies, develops and implements solutions that improve customer service delivery.
5. Leads project work for the deparment, defines business requirements, performs user acceptance testing, and change management activities to facilitate the successful execution of changes within the team.
6. Assists management with leadership, training, mentoring and continuous improvement activities.
7. Performs quality assurance functions. Works with team to ensure that high quality standards are achieved. Mentors team on opportunities for quality improvement.
8. Actively engages with team contributing to fulfillment of overall partner and customer commitments and issue resolution.
9. Leads or participates in relationship status calls and participates in on-site visits to assigned accounts to build relationships and improve service. Works closely with relationship managers and team members to provide superior customer service.
10. Positive role model, actively influences and encourages development of others.
11. Participates in special projects, and performs other duties as assigned.

• High school diploma or GED required

5 years of experience, preferably in the leasing industry required

Sedentary Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Occasional Travel occurs infrequently (typically, once a month or less).

The typical base pay range for this role is between $77,951 - $98,354. Compensation may vary based on individual job-related knowledge, skills, expertise, and experience. This position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program driven by organization and individual performance.

The listed salary, other compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. This job will be posted for a minimum of five (5) business days or until the position is filled. CoBank reserves the right to adjust compensation for all positions and to modify or discontinue benefits programs at any time in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law.

CoBank is a cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. The bank also provides wholesale loans and other financial services to affiliated Farm Credit associations serving more than 76,000 farmers, ranchers and other rural borrowers in 23 states around the country. CoBank is a member of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of banks and retail lending associations chartered to support the borrowing needs of U.S. agriculture, rural infrastructure and rural communities. Headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, CoBank serves customers from regional banking centers across the U.S. and also maintains an international representative office in Singapore.

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