Job Description:
Join the AgCredit Team: Agribusiness Operations Specialist
Location: Wellington, OH
About AgCredit
Our mission at AgCredit is to create lifelong opportunities for our customers and employees by striving to be the premier cooperative lender and employer in our rural communities. Our core values focus on relationships, respect, integrity, service, accountability, teamwork and courage for our customers’ and employees’ success. As a cooperative agricultural lending institution, our commitment is to our customer-owners.
Headquartered in Fostoria, OH, AgCredit serves over 7,000 member-owners in 15 lending offices throughout 18 counties across northwest and central Ohio. As part of the nationwide Farm Credit System, we are proud to return our profits back to our members through our patronage program. We hope you’ll consider joining our experienced lending team as we continue to serve our customers, employees and communities.
Agribusiness Operations Specialist – Wellington, OH
The Agribusiness Operations Specialist provides administrative and operational support to the Agribusiness lending team, ensuring accurate maintenance of loan and member data, processing financial transactions, and coordinating with loan investors. It involves clerical duties such as document management, phone support, and assisting with financial data collection. The position also manages cash operations, general ledger accounting, accounts payable, and asset tracking for the department. Key responsibilities include transmitting loan documents, verifying insurance coverage, performing public record searches, and handling collateral lien servicing. Additionally, the role supports marketing efforts, promotes AgCredit’s core values, and collaborates across teams to maintain secure and efficient loan servicing processes.
What You’ll Do:
Maintains loan and member data on the loan and member systems; processes receipts and disbursements; calculates loan payoffs; processes daily transactions; and coordinates loan transactions with loan investors as needed.
– Serves as back up for booking loans to the loan system.
– Works with the Agribusiness team members to maintain accurate member data, including but not limited to Customer Relationship Manager (CRM);
– Complies with special information requests as needed.
– Performs the Agribusiness department’s cash management, daily banking, GL accounting, accounts payable processing, and asset management functions.
Primarily responsible for transmitting loan documents to loan investors:
– Coordinates with the Agribusiness Loan Processor to transmit relevant pre-closing loan documentation to potential loan investors in a timely manner;
– Ensures loan and servicing documents are transmitted to loan investors as appropriate and in a timely manner and responds to inquiries by loan investors related to loan documentation.
– Accessing documents from partners such as request, narratives, legal documents etc. Saving & indexing to the appropriate purchased participation customer files.
– Assists credit analysts set up loan servicing plans. Assist with reviewing loan servicing plans and checking completed items.
Provides general clerical and administrative support to Agribusiness team members including but not limited to
– Answering phones.
– Scans, uploads and indexes documents
– Assists and provides back-up support as needed in areas including but not limited to: maintaining purchased loan documents; loan collateral management; transmitting documents to loan investors; maintaining loss payables and servicing reminders; and public records searches.
– Assists with gathering financial data, including year-end data.
Collaborate with the Agribusiness Loan Processor to verify insurance coverage for loans and monitor insurance coverage on collateral.
Performs public record searche s and provides results in a timely manner to the Agribusiness team members for review.
Ensure all borrower information, including but not limited to, loan files, financial information and personal information is stored in a secure setting at the end of each workday.
Build enduring customer relationships based on adding value, knowledge, information, and quality service.
Provides support services to the Residential Lending team as needed and assigned.
Collaborate with the lending team and Association marketing team to support Agribusiness branch member marketing, including but not limited to ordering branch marketing materials, monitoring branch marketing material inventory and packaging and shipping marketing materials to lending team members as needed.
Handles collateral lien servicing and management for the association
Manage collateral insurance for the Agribusiness Department, including requesting placement of loss payee/mortgagee interest, tr acking receipts of proof of coverage, reviewing policies, monitoring and following up on insurance notifications, and contacting insurance providers as needed. May support Crop Insurance as needed.
Coordinates with Loan Operations to place Lender’s Single Interest (LSI) insurance coverage when needed.
Handles USDA guarantees
What You’ll Need:
– Two-year degree in Business, Accounting or related field and two years of account-related work experience OR high school graduate with four years of accounting-related work experience.
– Working knowledge of and experience with general accounting functions, loan documents and legal documents.
– Ability to work independently and effectively with a diverse group of people under general supervision.
– Demonstrates attention to detail.
– Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
– Use of discretionary judgment in making decisions and problem solving.
– Working knowledge of general business machines, i.e. PC, Calculator, copier, fax, etc.
– Working experience with Microsoft Office products.
– Knowledge in the area of agriculture is beneficial.
– Knowledge of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and formats to recognize and correct correspondence and reports.
Benefits Offered
– Competitive compensation
– Top-rated benefits program
– 401k Plan with company match
– Tuition reimbursement, sponsored training and career development opportunities
– Generous paid time off with 11 holidays observed
– Employee Assistance Program
– Community Service PTO
– “Dress for your day” dress code
Schedule
– Monday to Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Why Work at AgCredit? – We’re not just growing—we’re growing with purpose and stability.
– We encourage a balanced approach to work and life responsibilities.
– We invest in our people through continuous learning and career growth.
– We live and work in the communities we serve.
Diversity Statement / EEO Statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. AgCredit strives to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, parental status, marital status, political affiliation, military service, or any other non-merit based factor. EOE including disability/veterans.
