Senior Portfolio Manager, Commercial

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

• Manage an assigned portfolio of commercial customers in partnership with the relationship manager
• Provide support and oversight of reporting for portfolio management (delinquency, problem loans, exceptions, tickler tracking, etc.) as designated by the CCO
• Coverage of financial statements, tax returns, covenant compliance certificates, and/or borrowing bases to comply with customers’ reporting requirements
• Monitor assigned portfolio for early warning signs of financial weakness or other risks and work with borrowers to develop and execute an appropriate plan to mitigate risk and/or transfer to Special Assets Group
• Prepare credit packages for annual reviews, renewals, loan requests, portfolio reviews and criticized asset reviews
• Structure and underwrite complex commercial loan transactions in an assigned portfolio and new business transactions
• Provide credit recommendations to the appropriate level of credit administration
• Review and negotiate loan documentation in consultation with legal counsel and ensure renewals and modifications are properly closed
• Serve as contact for, provide support of and responses to internal audits, loan review, compliance reviews and regulatory exams for the bank
• Comply with all bank policies and procedures as well as applicable state and federal regulations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, accounting, or related discipline
• Minimum 7 years’ commercial credit experience including experience in one of the following sectors: corporate banking, middle market or CRE; leveraged lending experience preferred
• Thorough understanding of risk management and credit mitigants
• Knowledge risk ratings analysis, corporate finance and/or research
• Strong analytical and financial modeling abilities
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability establishing client relationships
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office products including advanced Excel modeling skills
• Familiarity with Moody's analytics