Commercial Banker, GNPH, AVP / VP

About the role

Wintrust provides community and commercial banking, specialty finance and wealth management services through its 16 bank charters and nine non-bank businesses. Wintrust serves clients in all 50 states with more than 200 branch banking locations in Illinois, southwestern Florida, northwestern Indiana, west Michigan and southern Wisconsin and commercial banking offices in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Mich., and in key branch banking locations throughout Illinois.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop existing portfolio by assessing and meeting clients' business and organizational needs
• Increase the Bank's profitability by cultivating new commercial business relationships
• Negotiate proper loan structure and effectively cross-sell products
• Maintain properly documented files and manage renewals and collection efforts on past dues and defaulted loans
• Maintain and build a professional network of COI's and referral sources
• Maintain a stable network of prospective customers with a consistent approach to calling
• Engage in a mission-oriented board to increase networking connections and add value to the community

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with a business, finance, economics or accounting major (preferred)
• Solid understanding of general credit and risk principles, mitigants, and banking policies/procedures; formal bank credit training is preferred
• Familiarity with cash management solutions (payables, receivables, liquidity optimization, etc.) and an awareness for how to create efficiency for clients
• 4+ years’ commercial banking experience, preferably in government, not-for-profit, healthcare, and/or education
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to establish client relationships and work within a team environment
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to proactively manage and prioritize workflow