Why Anchor Loans?
Anchor Loans is one of several operating companies owned by Pretium Partners (+$70B AUM Financial Services Entity) and is working diligently to expand and grow its lending footprint.
Anchor Loans, established in 1998, is the nation’s leading private, direct lender to experienced residential real estate investors and builders, and the first to surpass $10 billion in total fundings. Renowned for expediting financing for developers and investors, we specialize in bridge loans, ground-up construction, and single-family rental solutions for non-owner-occupied projects. Headquartered in beautiful Thousand Oaks, California, Anchor Loans currently lends in 48 states and is expanding into new markets and service lines to better serve our current and future borrowers.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Serve as the main point of contact with borrowers, ensuring timely communication and issue resolution throughout the life of the loan.
- Review and approve draw requests based on Construction Loan Agreements (CLAs) and project progress, ensuring alignment with budget and risk controls.
- Track construction timelines, budget execution, milestones, and cost performance indicators across a multi-market loan portfolio.
- Monitor project payoffs and compare them to underwriting projections; identify variances and their root causes.
- Generate monthly reports and present key insights to investors, highlighting performance, risks, and updates.
- Oversee the use of contingency funds and ensure proper reallocation of savings or overruns with supporting documentation.
- Ensure all project documentation is complete, auditable, and compliant with internal policies.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders—credit, legal, underwriting, and servicing—to ensure accurate execution and risk alignment.
- Collaborate with underwriting and structuring teams to conduct post-closing credit evaluations and ongoing risk oversight, including review of project budgets, timelines, documentation progress, general contractor viability, entitlements, utilities, and environmental considerations.
- Oversee complex or special situations such as loan modifications, extension requests, declining performance, general contractor changes, and other restructuring or workout matters.
- Work closely with legal, corporate finance, and servicing teams to support amendments, transactions, and the management of default scenarios.
- Mentor and develop team members by providing guidance, constructive feedback, training, and review of work outputs.
- Assess the sufficiency of project contingencies and interest reserves, update analyses as project conditions evolve, and recommend corrective actions when necessary.
- Track macro and submarket trends that affect collateral value, sales absorption, lease-up performance, and exit strategies, and convert those insights into actionable recommendations for the portfolio.
- Evaluate new opportunities by assessing construction budgets, scope of work, entitlements, and property-level risks.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, Architecture, Finance, or related field.
- 6+ years of experience in asset management, construction oversight, or real estate development
- Strong financial and technical skills to evaluate construction budgets, payoffs, and loan performance.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience preparing investor-ready reports.
- Excellent communication skills in Spanish and English.
Benefits:
The values of our employees reflect those of the company as a whole. If you embrace teamwork, innovation, and accountability you'll feel right at home. Our mission is to create opportunities for success by improving homes and communities. We set up our team members for success by offering a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Colombian law benefits
- Highly competitive performance bonus
- 15 legal vacation paid days
- Paid Colombian Holidays annually
Diversity matters to our organization, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates are welcome and will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, natural origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
