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Mortgage loan underwriter

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Loan approval officer Loan underwriter Mortgage compliance underwriter Mortgage guideline underwriter Mortgage loan underwriter

Mortgage loan underwriters ensure compliance with underwriting guidelines. They participate in the implementation of new underwriting guidelines. They also review closed and denied loans.

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
  • Wholesale and retail sales
  • Statistics

Digital competencies

  • Analysing financial and economic data
  • Performing risk analysis and management
  • Gathering information from physical or electronic sources
  • Interviewing
  • Management skills

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

Professional groups of the occupation

Technicians and associate professionals

Science and engineering associate professionals

Physical and engineering science technicians

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

105

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

63,64%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-19,85% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

99,05%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

5,71%

Part-time contracts

1,02% Turnover index

152

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-2%

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.

Science and engineering associate professionals

68%

32%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering 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

Physical and engineering science technicians

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?

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

No experience
12%
Less than 1 year
39%
Between 1 and 2 years
8%
Between 2 and 4 years
17%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
20%
Manufacturing
32%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
28%
Information and communication
9%
Administrative and support service activities
8%
Education
7%
Others
16%

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.