SVP- Commercial Banking- Corporate Finance

Job Title:

SVP- Commercial Banking- Corporate Finance

Location:

CA - Los Angeles, La Playa

What you'll do:

As a Senior Vice President you'll be in a key business development and relationship management role that executes the division's strategic plan and guide the team in its efforts to meet the Bank's annual growth and customer retention targets. Unlike a pure business development officer, you'll take a holistic approach to relationship management and be active participant both in developing new opportunities and working with existing customers. As the point person for structuring opportunities, you will be supported by a team of underwriters, portfolio managers, and credit analysts to grow and manage a portfolio. In this role you'll work your network and portfolio for additional opportunities and devote significant time developing new prospects; this effort is balanced with your responsibility for your portfolio's health management.

What we are looking for:

• Responsible for supporting the Director in executing the Bank's strategic plan, with specific focus of leading the efforts to grow the loan and deposit portfolio of the assigned region or business line.  You are measured on your success in meeting sales objectives, portfolio health, and management of market dynamics.

• Executes the tactical strategy outlined by the Director regarding transaction pitches and negotiation of term sheets. Is responsible for proposing the credit structuring of opportunities, performing customer assessment, and making presentations to divisional loan committees.

• Responsible for the success in managing portfolio health, and their efforts to pro-actively address deteriorating loan performance, mitigating risk from market developments, complications in service delivery, and product adoption.

• Fosters strong, healthy working relationships with senior leaders and peers in partner departments (including Credit Administration, Risk Management/Compliance, Loan Administration, and other internal support departments, and third-party services), and facilitates team's contribution to and compliance with technical processes and requirements, risk mitigation, efficiency, and customer service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university and nine (9) or more years of related experience and/or training; or a combination of experience and education.

  • Work related experience must consist of deposit and lending sales, credit administration or other applicable financial services experience.

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of commercial credit and loan structuring, pricing dynamics, and has market specific awareness.

• Strong speaking and writing skills for internal and external audiences.

Compensation: Salary range for new hires is generally $172,000.00 - $210,000.00 for Santa Monica, CA. Salary amount is determined by specific job location. In addition, the role may be eligible for annual bonus/incentives earned and restricted stock.

Benefits you’ll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC.  AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an