Job Description:
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At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
Job Description:
This job is responsible for analyzing and interpreting a client's credit worthiness, evaluating credit risks, and writing credit approval memos for annual renewals and new lending opportunities. Key responsibilities include analyzing qualitative and quantitative data such as client's financials, projections, industry data, covenant compliance, and collateral appraisals to ensure compliance with the bank's risk appetite.
The Credit Underwriter II is aligned with the Credit Advisor in their goal of developing new custom lending relationships with strategic wealth clients.
Job expectations include completing regular monitoring and underwriting tasks and supporting key internal stakeholders to achieve successful execution of new transactions. Transactions include commercial real estate, yacht, unsecured, Treasury Management, and Corporate Bankcards.
Responsibilities:
Analyzes client's financial performance by comparing it to past performance, projections, and industry standards
Reviews financial statements, assesses the client's compliance with financial covenants, and renews risk ratings, while recommending changes as warranted
Assists in the underwriting, credit risk analysis, negotiation, and closing of new transactions or existing transactions, while adhering to all relevant policies and procedures
Evaluates transaction and relationship risk-adjusted profitability to facilitate the allocation of capital
Identifies, escalates, and debates data quality, regulatory, and/or policy breach issues, while delivering accurate and consistent data
Builds projection models for the client (as needed) based on historical performance, industry forecasts, and other due diligence findings
Trains, coaches, and mentors Credit Analysts
Identify and recommend process improvements
Maintains asset quality within the defined Global Wealth and Investment Management risk appetite limits
Required Qualifications:
3 - 5 years of commercial and/or private wealth management credit experience
Strong financial analysis, accounting skills, and deal structuring for borrowers with complex balance sheets and income streams
Strong negotiation and communication skills
Organized and detail oriented with ability to multi-task, with prior experience in a high-volume production environment
Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build business partnerships with risk, services and client teams who may not be co-located
Desired Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, accounting or economics preferred
Formal Credit Training and/or Commercial/Wealth Management credit experience preferred
Skills:
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
