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COMPANY DESCRIPTION:  Forbright is a nationwide full-service bank and commercial lender focused on helping to build a brighter future for our clients and the communities we serve. Forbright is committed to exceptional client service by providing seamless, innovative personal banking services to depositors and creative financing solutions to visionary middle market businesses and investors in healthcare, technology, financial services, real estate, and other industries.    COMPANY CULTURE:  We are a dynamic, high energy, fun, and fast-paced organization that has an exciting growth trajectory, meaningful mission, and embedded responsible practices into our daily interactions. We offer our team members a culture of collaboration, inclusion, flexibility, recognition, and giving back. We look to hire individuals that are passionate about our mission, and who are motivated, customer and results-oriented, innovative, adaptable, and thoughtful.   COMPANY MISSION:  We are a mission-driven institution. We operate a sound dynamic institution that is well capitalized, liquid, profitable and uses best practices to manage risk and assure compliance with laws and regulations. We use Forbright’s capital, capabilities, innovation, and expertise to help our clients succeed and contribute broadly to building a brighter future.  JOB SUMMARY: The VP, First Line Risk and Compliance, Commercial Lending is responsible for strengthening and operating the first line control environment for the Bank’s commercial lending activities, with an emphasis on disciplined credit risk practices across the end‑to‑end lifecycle (origination, underwriting, closing, servicing, and portfolio management). This role partners closely with Commercial Lending, Credit Administration, Legal, Compliance, BSA, and Enterprise Risk Management to ensure key risks are proactively identified and controlled through clear procedures, effective controls, monitoring, timely issue remediation, and reporting aligned to the Bank’s risk appetite and regulatory expectations. The position enables safe and sound growth of the commercial lending portfolio by embedding consistent credit standards, data quality, and control execution into day‑to‑day operations.