Credit Associate (Primarily Underwriting Small Business Administration Guaranteed Loans)

Job Summary

This job reports up through Banking Group Portfolio Management (BGPM). BGPM is responsible for underwriting new loan opportunities and managing a portfolio of loans in the following industry and business segments: Energy, Leveraged Finance, Healthcare, Asset Based Lending, Diversified, Middle Market (including Agribusiness), Business Banking, Private Banking, Small Business and SBA. This particular position will be primarily focused on underwriting SBA guaranteed loans.

About the Role

The Credit Associate is an individual contributor experienced in, and responsible for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting various types of credit information on existing and prospective customers to determine credit worthiness. While under supervision of Underwriting Team Leaders, the Credit Associate assists in structuring new requests for extensions of credit, as well as completing extensions, renewals and making recommendations for deteriorating credits while independently managing their workflow and communication with field partners.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate loan requests to properly identify purpose, risk elements, and collateral adequacy.
• Assess the liquidity, quality of management, market position, industry and overall business climate to estimate future profitability of business.
• Analyze credit data, financial statements (cash flow, balance sheet, income statements), and tax returns (both personal and business) to determine creditworthiness and the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending.
• Apply accounting principles to financial modeling.
• Input, interpret, and assess risk rating model output and client data to develop a credit recommendation.
• Develop the credit write-up to make loan structuring decisions within delegated authority or make recommendations to the appropriate Credit partners/Officers; document and communicate findings providing relative guidance.
• Identify deteriorating credits early and escalate with well thought out/experienced recommendations for restructure.
• Initiate annual reviews.
• Review loan documentation to ensure loan documents match terms and conditions outlined in the credit approval.
• Create and maintain credit files, and develop spreadsheets based on financial statements to facilitate foundational underwriting analysis.
• Provide financial analysis and portfolio administration to ensure timely and accurate risk ratings.
• Prepare loan packages and monitor and maintain loan portfolios.
• Serve as a mentor, coach, and trainer for Credit Analysts.
• Collaborate with bankers and credit partners to drive the efficiency and effectiveness of the credit process to meet client expectations.
• Participate in periodic projects related to changes in risk management processes, policies or environment and/or underwriting process improvement/optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience in finance, accounting, economics and/or business (required)
• Minimum 2 years of commercial/specialty client segment underwriting, credit, banking and/or financial services experience (required)
• Competent with Microsoft Office and the ability to learn and effectively utilize other technology applications (required)
• Understanding of financial models (required)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
• Able to gather or pull together relevant information and utilize it to draw insights, conclusions, solution problems, make decisions and/or tell a story. Requires one to make sense of the data and display logical, connected thinking. (experienced level)
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