Associate / Senior Associate - Middle Market Credit Delivery - Cash Flow / EV

About the role

The Middle Market Credit Delivery Associates have a broad understanding of the market, credit acumen, and products within sponsor/leveraged finance and general Middle Market banking segments. Facilitates financial analysis, risk assessment and credit structure recommendations for more complex client and prospect profiles with limited oversight. Takes increasing ownership of projects in coordination with assigned leader and mentors more junior teammates. Contributes to prudent underwriting and effective credit and risk administration with particular emphasis on adherence to credit policy and requirements. Supplements analysis with research and evaluations from a wide variety of sources to develop an assessment of client, competitor, property segment, market and industry risks and trends. Credit Delivery Associates typically support VP and SVP level teammates and require increasingly less oversight, begin owning components of opportunities more fully and exhibiting confidence in many facets of independent client interaction. Begins to act as a resource for more junior teammates, participating in training and onboarding for new hires.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates the diligence and underwriting documentation of complex and larger credit relationships; supports credit presentation preparation and discussions with Credit Officer and other final approvers and helps coordinates legal documentation efforts through closing and funding phase.
• Ensures loan agreement is in accordance with approval documents.
• Identifies potential issues contained within loan documentation and takes steps to address the issues, in consultation with Relationship Manager.
• Analyzes financial statements/projections and documents client performance, along with identified risk and risk mitigants of most complex credits.
• Ensures all Credit Process Metrics are within prescribed tolerances.
• Accountable for the risk evaluation and associated compliance requirements within assigned portfolio and for prospects.
• Identifies issues and follows through for remediation.
• Serves as a client and internal point of contact in managing assigned portfolio. (May include site visit and/or visit with client management team)
• Supports and mentors Credit Delivery Analysts and other Associates.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline