West One Loans creates ‘roving underwriter’ role

West One Loans has appointed a ‘roving underwriter’ to provide key distribution partners with greater support with cases.

The specialist lender has appointed Ann-Marie Tarrant, who is currently an office-based underwriter at West One, to the newly-created position.

As part of her new role, Ann-Marie will pay regular visits to West One’s key distributors to help with any first and second charge cases as well as provide bespoke training to broker firms on West One underwriting requirements.

She will also have the ability to assess cases on site, meaning cases should be able to progress quicker to completion by reducing the number of day one underwriting needs prior to the case being submitted for approval to their Watford based underwriting team.

The lender recently launched into the first charge residential space for the first time, with a range of products aimed at borrowers who struggle to obtain finance from the high street.

Marie Grundy, managing director of West One’s residential and second charge division, commented: “While remote working has become the norm for some businesses, many people still prefer face-to-face interactions, particularly when dealing with often complicated financial transactions. We know our brokers certainly think that way, which is why it made perfect sense to introduce this role to complement our office based underwriting team.

“We want to ensure we are constantly providing a highly responsive and market-leading service, and we are confident this new role will help us achieve that. And in Ann-Marie, an experienced, respected and well-liked underwriter, we feel we have the perfect person for the job.

“Looking forward, we want to assure brokers that we will continue investing in our proposition to ensure that we are delivering a service that is the very best in the specialist end of the market.”