Senior Parabroker – Team Lead

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🕒 June 25

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Pear Tree.

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Pear Tree is a Melbourne‑born offshore recruitment and hiring services company that connects Australian, US, and UK businesses directly with skilled offshore professionals (primarily from the Philippines) without agency markups. They provide end-to-end hiring support — sourcing, screening, skills assessments, video interviews, reference checks — and offer payroll, Employer‑of‑Record, and compliance assistance plus a six‑month replacement guarantee. Pear Tree recruits across IT, sales & marketing, finance, creative, admin and operations roles, emphasizing cost savings, direct pay to talent, and secure onboarding workflows.

📋 Description

• Loan writing / parabrokering for residential home loans (approximately 40%–70% of the role depending on current volumes) • Day-to-day management of a team of three offshore members, including one experienced credit analyst and two loan processors, through regular coaching and mentoring • Daily pipeline management in collaboration with the onshore team to ensure files continue moving efficiently • Anticipating lender policy issues and proactively resolving problems early • Building and improving workflows to enhance turnaround times, accuracy, and operational efficiency • Developing a complete understanding of current team operations, documenting processes, identifying friction points or repetitive low-value tasks, and implementing solutions • Recommending and implementing improvements across software, AI tools, automation, training, and workflow systems • Guiding and collaborating with technical workflow consultants to implement process improvements • Leading a positive offshore work culture that is results-driven, connected despite distance, fulfilling, and enjoyable • Working with the onshore team to develop and track reporting measures and performance metrics

🎯 Requirements

• Strong hands-on parabrokering experience with operational and leadership capability • At least **6 years’ experience in Australian residential mortgages**, most recently in a parabrokering role • Strong credit knowledge across multiple lenders and lending policies • Confidence handling complex lending scenarios, including company/trust structures, investment lending, self-employed lending, and high LVR loans • Strong exposure to lenders such as **CBA, St George, Macquarie, and Bankwest** • Confidence communicating daily with BDMs and assessors • Experience working across at least **two Australian mortgage firms** (preferred) • Experience leading, mentoring, or coaching team members and a genuine enjoyment in helping others succeed • A systems- and process-driven mindset • Comfort using and improving mortgage technology and systems, ideally including **ApplyOnline, Mercury, Quickly, and Asana** • A calm, proactive, and solutions-focused approach

🏖️ Benefits

• This is an opportunity to step into a senior role where you can genuinely influence operations, improve systems, lead a team, and contribute to the continued growth of a respected Australian mortgage brokerage.