Senior Manager, Commercial Credit Review
Posted Sep 1, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you analyzed portfolio composition and found a trend that management hadn't flagged. What did you do with it?
What they are checking: Whether they can move from file-level testing to a portfolio opinion and get leadership to take it seriously.
How do you build a relationship with the management of an acquired company when part of your job is to criticize their work?
What they are checking: Whether they can earn trust and access from people being reviewed while keeping their independence intact.
Tell me about a finding you issued that was hard to deliver. How did you write it, and how did the business respond?
What they are checking: Whether their findings are clear, fair and well supported enough to survive challenge and drive real remediation.
What would you do
You're reviewing a borrower and you think the risk rating is one notch too generous. The relationship manager disagrees strongly. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they can hold an evidence-based position on a rating under pushback without turning it into a fight.
This role helps build Credit Review's assurance framework for Brex, a recent acquisition. Where would you start when the company's processes don't look like the parent bank's yet?
What they are checking: Whether they can design oversight for an unfamiliar business model instead of forcing an existing checklist onto it.
Our results go to the Risk Committee of the Board. How would you summarize credit quality for directors who have ten minutes and no time for loan-level detail?
What they are checking: Whether they can turn testing results into a short, plain judgment that a board can act on.
You're halfway through the annual Credit Review plan and an emerging risk appears in a portfolio you weren't scheduled to touch. How do you decide whether to change the plan?
What they are checking: Whether they plan around risk rather than around the calendar, and can justify a change to the plan.
About the work
Credit Review is a third line of defense function. How do you explain the difference between what you do and what the first and second lines do on the same commercial portfolio?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that independence is the whole value of the role and can protect it without being obstructive.
Walk me through how you test a commercial loan file for quality of underwriting. What are you actually looking at, and what makes you write it up?
What they are checking: Whether they have done real transactional testing and know the difference between a documentation gap and a credit judgment problem.
Brex lends to startups and growing companies, often without a long financial history. What signals would you look at to judge whether client selection and borrower monitoring are sound?
What they are checking: Whether they can adapt commercial credit thinking to borrowers whose risk shows up in cash burn and funding, not years of statements.
How do you tell whether a borrower monitoring process is working in practice and not just on paper?
What they are checking: Whether they test execution, like covenant tracking and timely downgrades, instead of accepting that a policy exists.
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