Bilingual Commercial Mortgage Funding & Closing Specialist (French and English Required)
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Employment: Employment opportunity
Salary: $90,000 to $110,000
Languages: Strong French and English communication skills, written and spoken, for coordinating mortgage transactions with borrowers, brokers, legal counsel and funding partners.
Work eligibility: Legally entitled to work in Canada.
Introduction
Are you an experienced commercial mortgage funding professional ready to take greater ownership of complex transactions and grow your career?
Our client, an established organization in the financial services sector, is seeking a Bilingual Commercial Mortgage Funding & Closing Specialist to coordinate commercial mortgage transactions from commitment through funding and post-closing completion.
This is an opportunity to bring your expertise, judgment and problem-solving skills to a role where your contributions directly influence closing efficiency, transaction quality and operational success. With meaningful growth potential, you will have the opportunity to expand your responsibilities and make a lasting impact.
Why You’ll Want This Role
- Earn a competitive salary of $90,000 to $110,000.
- Take ownership of complex commercial mortgage transactions and play a central role in successful closings.
- Build on your expertise in commercial mortgage funding, including opportunities to work with bridge and construction financing.
- Collaborate with experienced professionals across lending, underwriting, legal, compliance and mortgage servicing.
- Benefit from meaningful growth potential while contributing to process improvements and operational excellence.
What You’ll Do
You will coordinate the commercial mortgage funding and closing process, ensuring documentation, approvals, compliance requirements and funding conditions are properly addressed before funds are released.
Working with internal teams and external partners, you will manage multiple transactions, resolve outstanding requirements, identify potential risks and help deliver accurate, timely and well-controlled closings.
Responsibilities
- Manage commercial mortgage transactions from commitment through funding, closing completion and resolution of post-closing requirements.
- Review commitment letters, approved lending terms, legal documentation and closing checklists to confirm funding requirements have been satisfied.
- Identify discrepancies, documentation deficiencies and outstanding conditions, coordinating their resolution or escalation before funding.
- Work with borrowers, brokers, legal counsel, insurance consultants, funding partners and internal departments to keep transactions progressing.
- Prepare closing-readiness recommendations, funding packages and supporting documentation, ensuring required approvals are obtained before funds are released.
- Support bridge and construction mortgage transactions, including reviewing applicable third-party reports, equity requirements and advance conditions.
- Complete applicable Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Client (KYC) and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Maintain accurate loan files, funding records, closing checklists and documented approval trails.
- Coordinate with accounting, treasury and mortgage servicing teams to support accurate funding and smooth loan onboarding.
- Monitor deadlines, communicate transaction status and proactively resolve issues that could delay closing.
- Support audits, quality reviews and initiatives to improve funding processes, documentation standards and operational efficiency.
Qualifications
Required:
- At least 5 years of experience in commercial mortgage funding and closing, including independently managing multiple transactions from commitment through funding.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience closing commercial mortgage loans.
- Strong knowledge of commercial mortgage documentation, closing procedures, funding controls and regulatory requirements.
- Experience completing AML, KYC and related compliance requirements.
- Ability to review commercial real estate documentation, identify discrepancies and escalate material issues.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage competing deadlines.
- Sound professional judgment, proactive problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently within established approval procedures.
- Strong French and English communication skills, written and spoken, to coordinate transactions, explain outstanding requirements and communicate with stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Legally entitled to work in Canada.
Assets:
- Experience closing bridge and construction mortgage loans.
- Familiarity with quantity surveyor reports, construction advances and cost-to-complete requirements.
- Experience using loan-management, document-management or closing-workflow systems.
Why Work with Us
At Bilingual Source, we connect talented bilingual professionals with career opportunities where their experience and language skills make a difference.
This opportunity offers more than day-to-day transaction coordination. You will take meaningful ownership of complex files, contribute to improvements in funding operations and develop your expertise in a specialized area of financial services.
If you are ready to bring your commercial mortgage closing experience to a position with strong growth potential, we encourage you to apply.
Bilingual Source uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position. This technology helps us match your unique language skills and professional experience with the specific needs of our clients. Final hiring and interview decisions continue to be made by our human recruitment experts.
This is an existing vacancy. Our client is currently seeking a Bilingual Commercial Mortgage Funding & Closing Specialist.