Lender Case Study

Newbold Advisors Lender Case Study

The Problem:

A $4B Financial Institution faced an increase in pre-closing QA audit issues originating from the Processing department. 

These issues were negatively impacting business as follows: 

  • Increased closing turn times, FTE time and production costs
  • Decreased referrals due to dissatisfied borrowers and third-parties unhappy with delayed closing times

Approach:

The client engaged Newbold’s subject matter experts to employ industry best practice expertise in evaluating current processing operations and in making recommendations for improvement. We accomplished this process as follows:

  • Met with key management and processing team members in onsite organizational and operational meetings 
  • Analyzed department workflows
  • Conducted full reviews of all team policies and procedures, as well as relevant documentation
  • Facilitated a full whiteboard session with lender on end-to-end processes and systems
  • Identified process requirements, guideline adherence, system utilization, current training methodology and QA, and post-close auditing procedures
Newbold Advisors Lender Case Study

Observations:

  • Increased pandemic volume over 18 months led to hiring many new staff members without deep mortgage experience. They were trained largely through co-workers’ show and tell
  • Existing state procedures were either out of date and/or not consistently followed
  • Staff failed to fully utilize LOS to leverage configurable functionality to reduce manual work around or unnecessary hand-offs

Recommendations:

  • Develop a targeted Processing 101 training protocol
  • Re-align role to responsibility
  • Institute a daily processors touchpoint meeting with manager to quickly review pipeline and daily priorities
  • Automate LOS checklists to eliminate manual/paper checklist and data duplication
  • Create training to include process improvement tricks in current LOS

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