Senior Credit Officer, Digital Infrastructure

Benefits Overview

A career at CoBank can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on the people and communities where we do business. In order to be the best, we hire the best!

Remarkable Benefits Offered by CoBank

• Careers with a purpose
• Time-Off Packages, 15 days of vacation, 10 paid sick days and 11 paid holidays
• Competitive Compensation & Incentive
• Hybrid work model: flexible arrangements for most positions
• Benefits Packages, including Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Disability, AD&D, and Life Insurance
• Robust associate training and development with CoBank University
• Tuition reimbursement for higher education up to $10k per year
• Outstanding 401k: up to 6% matching and additional 3% non-elective contribution
• Community Impact: United Way Angel Day, Volunteer Day and Associate Directed Contribution
• Associate Resource Groups: creating a culture of respect and inclusion
• Recognize a fellow associate through our GEM awards

Job Description

Takes leadership role in analyzing and developing credit-structuring alternatives within all Digital Infrastructure (DI) verticals including regional, large corporate/syndicated/sponsor and data center/tower/project finance including businesses owned by Financial Sponsors and other non-traditional investors. Independently leads the underwriting and portfolio management responsibilities across all DI verticals while providing credit leadership to guide the work of credit analysts and portfolio managers, while interfacing with relationship management, capital markets and division leadership staff. Reviews and approves credit actions across credit team based on delegated authorities. Key contributor to the achievement of volume, fee income, credit quality and overall profitability goals through interactions with relationship management, portfolio management, capital markets, leadership staff, direct customers and financial sponsors.

Essential Functions

• Provides leadership on negotiation strategies, due diligence and credit evaluation while being responsible for complete credit package and managing appropriate resources to meet internal and external guidelines. Provides appropriate technical, industry and functional knowledge to credit, relationship management, portfolio management, capital markets and leadership staff, including leading communications/meetings, direct interface with clients and leading overall credit process across all DI verticals and most complex debt arrangements including project finance structures. Helps relationship management lead negotiations concerning the presentation and development of complex credit arrangements. Takes a leadership role in managing credit administration, account servicing, approval, loan closing, documentation, and monitoring.
• Reviews audits, interim statements, projections, and other pertinent financial information to provide expert analysis of financial trends. Acquires information from published industry reports, trade groups, customer meetings, journals, and other external sources to supplement and enhance the analysis of information provided by the borrower, agent bank and/or sponsor.
• Identifies strengths and weaknesses of the borrower, lending structure and evaluates specific risks to the bank. Independently analyzes and determines validity of customer/sponsor business plans based on an assessment of the industry outlook, competition, technology, management, and capital structure. Determines appropriateness and approach to sensitivity analysis, to provide alternative views on key risks associated with the proposed transaction. Provides estimates of company and/or collateral value with thorough market analysis, discounted cash flow and other methods depending on industry sector.
• Actively and independently monitors credit quality of high profile and complex accounts across a portfolio that spans all DI verticals. Takes pro-active approach with customer interaction, compliance reporting, research and evaluation to identify emerging trends/concerns and communicates trends and credit view with Relationship Management, Portfolio Management, Capital Markets and credit leadership.
• Ability to establish, lead and maintain direct communication with borrower and sponsors to execute deal process, portfolio management requirements and meet compressed internal and external deadlines.
• Leads interaction with Credit Approvals, Asset Review and other 3rd parties to support, defend and gain consensus on underwriting and portfolio management approaches on high-profile transactions across all DI verticals.
• Authors and presents research and analysis on specific industry sectors as part of DI’s Center of Excellence in coordination with CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange Division. Collaborates