Jobs at Northwest Bank

Collects delinquent retail mortgage loans, negotiates payment arrangements, prepares modifications and repayment plans, and advises borrowers on foreclosure alternatives. Reviews property values, title searches, inspections, documentation, and account records; recommends foreclosure, short sale, deed in lieu, or charge-off actions. Coordinates with branches, legal entities, vendors, agencies, bankruptcy and loss mitigation teams while ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies.

Leads annual budgeting, forecasting, profitability reporting, variance analysis, strategic planning support, and financial modeling. Partners with business lines and senior leadership to develop reports, allocate costs, assess capital project ROI, explain funds transfer pricing, and improve budgeting processes. Maintains documentation, supports compliance, and performs ad hoc financial analysis.

Leads enterprise financial consolidation for actuals, forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans. Performs financial modeling, scenario analysis, variance analysis, and reporting across business units and legal entities. Partners with Accounting, Treasury, and business leaders to provide actionable insights, support decision-making, improve reporting processes, maintain internal controls, and support audits and regulatory compliance.

Leads risk-based audits of bank technology operations, including cloud computing, cybersecurity, network and application security, digital implementation, and data governance. Plans audit scopes, evaluates controls and regulatory compliance, analyzes evidence, documents testing, presents findings, recommends corrective actions, and validates remediation. Requires substantial IT audit, information security, technology risk, and banking experience, plus knowledge of financial services frameworks and enterprise technologies.

Leads lifecycle marketing strategy and execution across email, direct mail, and CDP-orchestrated customer journeys. Owns audience segmentation, personalization, testing, campaign optimization, and performance measurement for acquisition, onboarding, engagement, retention, and product adoption. Partners with Analytics, Data, Technology, Product, Operations, Compliance, Legal, vendors, and agencies to deliver compliant omnichannel communications and improve customer relationships and business outcomes.

Leads the bank’s independent credit risk review function, including annual risk-based planning, portfolio assessment, loan quality reviews, risk-rating validation, ACL/ALLL challenge, regulatory compliance, and reporting to executives and risk committees. Manages review resources and outsourced engagements, coaches staff, interfaces with regulators, and provides credible challenge regarding underwriting, risk appetite, controls, and portfolio concentrations. The role also drives automation, data analytics, policy adherence, and timely remediation of credit risk issues.

Partners with business leaders to align workforce and talent strategies with organizational goals. Advises on organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, succession planning, talent development, employee engagement, retention, change management, and organizational design. Analyzes workforce trends and metrics, supports hiring and leadership development, identifies capability gaps, and ensures compliance with company policies and applicable regulations.

Analyzes commercial real estate and C&I credit requests through financial statement spreading, underwriting, cash-flow analysis, risk rating, collateral evaluation, covenant testing, and credit memo preparation. Supports loan renewals, annual reviews, modifications, and portfolio management while ensuring compliance with banking regulations and credit policies. Reviews guarantor finances, identifies credit risks, participates in lender calls, maintains underwriting data integrity, and assists with analyst training and process improvements.

Monitors banking transactions for suspicious activity, analyzes fraud patterns, investigates alerts, and escalates cases. Partners with internal teams and customers to resolve fraud issues, reduce losses, and strengthen prevention strategies. Maintains case documentation, protects sensitive customer information, identifies emerging trends, supports regulatory compliance, and recommends improvements to fraud controls and policies.

Analyzes fair lending programs for regulatory compliance using statistical and regression analysis. Maintains annual monitoring programs, conducts risk assessments and comparative file reviews, prepares reports for senior management and the Board, supports regulatory examinations, interprets applicable laws, and advises business units on compliance procedures and improvements.

Monitors commercial loan portfolios, evaluates borrower financial performance and credit risk, assigns risk ratings, tests covenants, reviews collateral, supports annual reviews and renewals, and ensures compliance with policies and regulations. The role collaborates with relationship managers, credit risk, underwriting, and special assets teams while maintaining accurate loan documentation and system data. Construction loan experience is desirable, and the position is primarily onsite with an optional remote Friday.

Supports Financial Advisors by developing new business, retaining client relationships, analyzing financial needs, reviewing portfolios, processing service requests, and conducting securities transactions. The role builds referral networks, presents investment products, monitors accounts, supports branch training, ensures FINRA and SEC compliance, and maintains required reporting and continuing education.

Provides administrative and operational support for talent acquisition, including candidate sourcing, resume screening, interview coordination, candidate communications, recruiting events, applicant tracking, offer and background-check monitoring, onboarding preparation, and process improvement. Maintains accurate records and supports a positive candidate experience while handling confidential employment information.

Leads Northwest Bank’s enterprise data governance program, including data policies, quality rules, lifecycle management, metadata, master data, stewardship, governance tooling, and remediation. Facilitates Data Working Groups, investigates root causes, manages governance metrics and reporting, demonstrates tools, documents processes, and supports training. Partners across a matrixed organization to ensure data assets meet standards, controls, regulatory requirements, and business needs.

Leads business intelligence projects supporting credit risk, portfolio monitoring, stress testing, forecasting, and profitability analysis. Translates stakeholder needs into requirements, solution designs, dashboards, reports, and predictive analytical tools. Develops queries and models, validates data quality, supports data governance, troubleshoots data issues, and helps business partners use Power BI, Azure, and enterprise data environments. Maintains documentation for management, regulators, and auditors while monitoring data builds and implementations.

Monitors banking transactions for suspicious activity, analyzes fraud patterns, reviews alerts, and escalates cases to investigators. Communicates with customers and internal teams to resolve fraudulent activity, reduce losses, and maintain accurate case documentation. Identifies emerging fraud trends, recommends prevention strategies, safeguards sensitive customer information, and supports compliance with bank policies and federal and state regulations.

Performs complex commercial equipment finance credit analysis, financial statement spreading, underwriting, credit memo preparation, portfolio reviews, covenant testing, risk rating, collateral analysis, and repayment-capacity assessment. Evaluates borrowers and guarantors, identifies credit risks and policy exceptions, recommends loan structures and controls, supports renewals and modifications, maintains underwriting data integrity, and ensures compliance with banking regulations and audit requirements.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise software architecture, development, testing, delivery, and production support. Designs scalable, secure applications, APIs, integrations, databases, and cloud solutions; leads technical reviews, coding standards, testing automation, architecture decisions, and incident resolution. Coordinates complex initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, manages technical risks and dependencies, and supports security, compliance, documentation, DevSecOps, and reliability practices.

Underwrite complex corporate and middle-market credit relationships through financial, industry, macroeconomic, risk, and valuation analysis. Develop credit structures, covenants, forecasts, risk ratings, and loan documentation; monitor portfolio risk, conduct periodic reviews, support loan syndications, participate in client calls, and ensure regulatory and policy compliance.

Leads commercial portfolio management teams covering C&I and CRE portfolios, oversees Cash Flow and SBA reporting, and ensures accurate underwriting, annual reviews, modifications, and first-line risk reporting. Presents portfolio reports to the Credit Risk Committee, resolves Archer issues, supports regulatory and audit reviews, manages staff development and budgets, maintains compliance with banking regulations, and identifies credit risks and mitigation strategies while balancing growth, profitability, and portfolio quality.