About the Role
As an Underwriter Portfolio Manager IV, this is an opportunity to work within a small and growing group for a top 20 Bank, with significant advancement opportunities both in the department and other functional areas of First Citizen’s Commercial Bank. Work within a team construct to perform credit underwriting and portfolio management across diverse debt solutions for private equity backed middle-market transactions.
Responsibilities
- Underwrites Sponsor accounts according to applicable regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
- Reviews financial statements, communicates with clients or prospects, and performs analysis to recommend borrower risk ratings and appropriate loan structuring.
- Ensures all involved parties are updated on underwriting progress and outcome.
- Provides guidance to less experienced underwriters through knowledge of underwriting procedures and information needs.
- Manages assigned portfolio by monitoring performance and trends, proactively defining client credit solutions, identifying issues and following through for remediation.
- Responsible for risk rating integrity, annual reviews as well as financial statement spreading, compliance and regulatory review.
- Manages all amendment and waivers in the assigned portfolio.
- Maintains ongoing communication and contact with assigned loan clients.
- Fortifies relationships and monitors client satisfaction.
- Sources, compiles, and interprets financial data to support structuring and approval of loans.
- Reviews industry information and comparisons, key risks and mitigants, and collateral to form a general business overview of the borrower.
- Utilizes results of analysis to underwrite loans.
- Identifies risks through reviews, analysis, and research of new and existing loans.
- Works closely with Bank associates and partners to resolve risk issues, communicating review schedule and potential changes in the portfolio.
- Assists in coordinating review and renewal schedules for existing credits, facilitating ongoing risk identification and management.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Commercial Lending or Credit Analysis, financial statement spreading, preparation of projections, and trailing twelve month analysis.
- High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Commercial Lending or Credit Analysis, financial statement spreading, preparation of projections, and trailing twelve month analysis.
- Ability to function both independently and as part of a deal team
- Strong writing, communication and presentation skills
- Time management skills to efficiently handle multiple tasks with changing priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to anticipate and solve problems, then take initiative to drive processes forward and make recommendations
Skills
- Commercial Lending
- Credit Analysis
- Financial statement spreading
- Preparation of projections
- Trailing twelve month analysis
- Underwriting
- Portfolio Management
- Client Service
- Risk Management
- Business
- Economics
- Finance
- Commercial/Leveraged lending
- Credit training
- Microsoft Excel
- Financial models
- Credit
- Structuring
- Legal
- Collateral requirements
- Analytical
- Quantitative
- Problem-solving
Location
- Raleigh, NC
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4 years
- 8 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- High School Diploma or GED
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Finance
- Completion of a formal credit training program
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000 - $140,000
Benefits
- Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program
About the Company
- First Citizens offers you the strength and stability of a diversified financial institution with a 125-year tradition of service and the personalized approach of a nimble financial partner.
- First Citizens Bank helps personal, business, commercial and wealth clients build financial strength that lasts.
- Headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., First Citizens has built a unique legacy of strength, stability and long-term thinking that has spanned generations.
- First Citizens offers an array of general banking services including a network of more than 550 branches in 23 states and commercial banking expertise delivering best-in-class lending, leasing and other financial services coast to coast.
- Parent company First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $230 billion in assets.
- First Citizens Sponsor Finance provides cash flow senior debt for private equity-backed transactions in the middle market and lower middle market throughout the United States.
