Vice President Commercial Credit Manager
Brookfield, WI, United States
As The Bank of You, North Shore Bank is about helping families thrive, businesses grow and communities flourish. And it’s our employees that make the difference. With offices located throughout eastern Wisconsin, we offer a work culture that has been recognized as a Top Workplace eleven times by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
As a mutual company, North Shore Bank isn’t publicly-owned, which means when we come to work every morning, our sole focus is on providing high-touch service to our customers and employees, and supporting our local communities. Are you looking for a company that places long-term growth ahead of short-term profits? Where you can put your customers first and think creatively to solve challenges? Where respect, integrity and being true to your word are valued and rewarded? This is the place.
SUMMARY: The Commercial Credit Manager oversees commercial and industrial (C&I) and commercial real estate (CRE) credit underwriting and monitoring for the Bank and manages a staff of credit analysts.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: North Shore Bank's Position Descriptions are intended to describe only the major functions of the job. You may be expected to perform other duties specified by your manager. Everyone is expected to contribute whatever efforts necessary to operate efficiently and effectively to insure the success of the Bank.
Ensures the timely underwriting of commercial credit requests and communicates with lenders to monitor and efficiently manage the workflow, including distribution of loan committee agendas.
Determines necessary documentation to support credit decisions. Supervises and analyzes, as necessary, all business and personal financial statements with an emphasis on detailed balance sheet and cash flow analysis.
Serves as a technical resource to other staff members in all areas of credit and collections.
Serves on the Loan Committee as a voting member and on the Senior Loan Committee (non-voting member) and accurately records all activities.
Prepares and distributes appropriate management and board reports.
Decisions commercial applications and ACH/RDC requests within authority level.
Trains staff (including lenders as necessary) as needed to ensure a better understanding of commercial credit.
Maintains loan-grading system and assigns credit ratings based on a thorough risk assessment of the request and/or existing loan; ensures accuracy of loan grading for all commercial credit relationships.
Provides ongoing monitoring and management of the commercial loan portfolio for credit risk, including but not limited to covenant and borrowing base certificate compliance, information regarding the portfolio direction, customer base, collateral support, delinquency and losses.
Initiates and follows to resolution, Watch Loan Reports when necessary.
Identifies and develops strategies for turnaround situations and relationships to exit.
Refers non-performing loans to workout department.
Stays informed of lending activities, competition, and economic conditions to ensure the Bank’s programs remain competitive.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Fosters an environment that emphasizes teamwork and professional growth while rewarding and recognizing exceptional performance. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include providing input for training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; addressing complaints and resolving problems (internal and external customers). Manages work schedules for direct reports.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
Requires an appropriate business degree from an accredited college or university. A minimum of 10 years’ experience in commercial loan underwriting is required. Commercial loan workout experience is preferred. Experience with Baker Hill software is a plus.
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
A thorough knowledge of the Uniform Commercial Code, commercial loan documentation and state/federal regulations is also required. Excel and PC proficiency required. Knowledge of MS Office products is required. Requires understanding of credit scoring systems.
Required Skills
Required Experience
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