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Overview
Loan officers assess loan applications from people or businesses, check financial information and help complete transactions between lenders, borrowers and sellers.
In job descriptions, look for credit risk policy, loan applications, mortgage documents, credit ratings, financial statements, client debt records, interest rates and loan portfolio monitoring.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Loan officers turn a loan request into a documented lending decision. The work includes interviewing borrowers, collecting financial information, checking accounting records, examining credit ratings and coordinating the transaction with banking colleagues or sellers.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes credit risk policy, loan analysis, mortgage documents, business loans, interest rates, financial statements, debt records, core banking software and monitoring a loan portfolio after approval.
Salary context
Salary context depends on the lending area, size of the loan portfolio, decision authority, credit risk complexity, mortgage or business-loan specialization, customer volume and responsibility for protecting client and lender interests.
Career paths
Career paths can move from loan application support into specialist lending, mortgage advice, credit risk control, portfolio monitoring, branch banking leadership or financial analysis roles.
Good to know
Check whether adverts separate consumer, mortgage and commercial loans. Also review approval limits, required financial calculations, credit-score work, client contact, document checks and portfolio follow-up.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 4
Loan Officers
13-2072.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETLoan Interviewers and Clerks
43-4131.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETCredit Analysts
13-2041.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETCredit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks
43-4041.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
Credit and loans officers (3312)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8e185c49-704e-49c0-8584-a7e0b618f628 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3312.5 |
| ISCO group | 3312 |
| Concept type | Occupation |