About the Role
This Assistant Vice President role sits in the US Business Credit Office with front line credit and risk ownership across Corporate and Institutional Banking. With a focus on commercial real estate and real estate investment trusts (REITs) you’ll help translate business strategy into well-judged credit outcomes that align to risk appetite. The role combines credit writing, underwriting, financial analysis and valuation work with close partnership across relationship bankers, product teams and risk colleagues. You’ll coordinate stakeholders to deliver clear recommendations that meet internal credit policies and external regulatory expectations. Success looks like consistently high-quality credit papers, effective engagement with relationship teams and sound risk decisions that support client needs and fair customer outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Deliver credit and risk ownership including writing credit papers and forming recommendations aligned to risk appetite
- Perform credit analysis including modelling projections and enterprise valuation analysis for commercial real estate and REIT transactions
- Coordinate closely with relationship managers, Credit Risk, global partners and product teams to support CIB priorities
- Apply sector knowledge to interpret transaction risk profiles and assess commercial real estate and REIT credit fundamentals
- Partner with relationship teams on credit engagement to optimise relationship value and deliver needs-based solutions and fair customer outcomes
- Attend client meetings as needed and act as a first point of contact for credit-related customer enquiries
- Follow HSBC policies, procedures and control requirements and escalate actual or potential issues through the right channels
- Embed operational risk considerations into day-to-day decisions and ensure audit and regulatory actions are implemented on time
Requirements
- Bring substantial corporate and institutional banking underwriting experience in commercial real estate and REITs
- Demonstrate structuring and credit underwriting experience across lending and related banking products
- Apply a thorough understanding of commercial real estate and REIT credit and risk profiles to real transactions
- Produce clear, well-reasoned credit analysis and recommendations using expert judgement within policy and regulatory requirements
- Evaluate information effectively to support decision making in complex credit situations
- Partner effectively with relationship managers and internal stakeholders to improve client engagement and outcomes
- Communicate clearly in writing and in person with internal teams and clients on credit-related topics
- Prioritise effectively across multiple deliverables while maintaining strong organisation and time management
Skills
- Credit judgement
- Credit writing
- Underwriting
- Financial analysis
- Valuation
- Risk appetite
- Credit policies
- Regulatory expectations
- Commercial real estate
- REITs
- Modelling projections
- Enterprise valuation analysis
- Sector knowledge
- Transaction risk profiles
- Credit fundamentals
- Relationship management
- Needs-based solutions
- Fair customer outcomes
- Operational risk
- Audit
- Regulatory actions
- Structuring
- Lending
- Banking products
- Decision making
- Client engagement
- Communication
- Organisation
- Time management
Experience Level
- Assistant Vice President
Benefits
- Tailored professional development opportunities
- Competitive pay and benefits package
- Robust Wellness Hub
- Welcoming and inclusive work environment
- Industry-leading volunteerism policy
- Generous matching gift program
- Comprehensive program of immersive Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives
- Employee Resource Groups
About the Company
- Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. Here at HSBC we use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up new kinds of opportunity for our more than 40 million customers. We’re bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, race, national origin, ethnicity, disability or medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran service, religion, creed, sex, gender, pregnancy, childbirth, caregiver status, marital status, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other trait protected by applicable law.
