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Loan officer

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Commercial lender Credit officer Loan officer Loan processor Loans adviser Loans agent Loans consultant Loans controller

Loan officers assess and authorise the approval of loan applications for individuals and businesses. They ensure complete transactions between loan organisations, borrowers, and sellers. Loan officers are specialists in consumer, mortgage, or commercial lending.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Interviewing applicants for personal, mortgage, student and business loans;
(b) Researching and evaluating loan applicant’s financial status, references, credit and ability to repay the loan;
(c) Submitting credit and loan applications to management with recommendations for approval or rejection;
(d) Approving or rejecting loan applications within authorized limits ensuring that credit standards of the institution are respected;
(e) Keeping records of payments, and preparing routine letters requesting payment for overdue accounts and forwarding these for legal action;
(f) Completing credit and loan documentation.

Knowledge

  • Finance, banking and insurance
  • Law
  • Computer use
  • Work skills
  • Statistics

Digital competencies

  • Analysing business operations
  • Analysing financial and economic data
  • Communicating with colleagues and clients
  • Preparing financial documents, records, reports, or budgets
  • Performing risk analysis and management

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Taking a proactive approach
  • Supporting others

Professional groups of the occupation

Technicians and associate professionals

Business and administration associate professionals

Financial and mathematical associate professionals

Credit and loans officers

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Credit and loans officers

115

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

69,70%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

11,65% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

98,26%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

20,00%

Part-time contracts

1,01% Turnover index

149

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-3%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Business and administration associate professionals

61%

39%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Business and administration associate professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Financial and mathematical associate professionals

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Credit and loans officers

No experience
12%
Less than 1 year
37%
Between 1 and 2 years
8%
Between 2 and 4 years
18%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
21%
Administrative and support service activities
32%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
21%
Financial and insurance activities
13%
Information and communication
8%
Other service activities
5%
Others
21%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.