Credit Underwriter I-Leasing/Municipal Credit and Public Finance

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for performing risk assessment and repayment capacity analysis (i.e., financial, borrower, industry, etc.) and preparing transaction justification for complex transactions with limited supervision. Key responsibilities include documenting credit analysis, independently assessing historic and projected borrower financial information, evaluating adherence to policy and procedure, providing loan structure analysis and recommendations, and monitoring portfolio performance. This job is responsible for analyzing and interpreting a client's credit worthiness, evaluating credit and industry risks, preparing risk ratings and writing annual review credit memorandums for Banc of America Public Capital Corporation portfolio. 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. Job expectations include completing regular monitoring and reporting tasks.

• Evaluates credit worthiness and provides analysis and decisioning on whether a client should receive a credit facility
• Partners with Credit Officers, Relationship Management, and Risk teammates to assess and deliver credit solutions
• Monitors the client's operating performance and financial condition, proactively identifying issues and opportunities
• Delivers financial modeling, loan structure, industry, economic, and other analyses to team members to support the loan decision-making process
• Ensures adherence to credit policies, guidelines, procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements
• 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
• Evaluates transaction and relationship risk-adjusted profitability to facilitate the allocation of capital
• Builds projection models for the client (as needed) based on historical performance, industry forecasts, and other due diligence findings
• Completing comprehensive analysis on client financial statements
• Identifying and monitoring client and industry risk trends
• Modeling transaction and relationship profitability
• Reviewing legal documentation related to loans and derivatives
• Writing annual reviews memorandums and risk rating justification to summarize your analysis and conclusions.
• Monitoring rating agency actions and publicly available news relates & articles for impact on portfolio accounts.
• May assist in the underwriting, credit risk analysis, negotiation, and closing of new transactions or existing transactions, while adhering to all relevant policies and procedures

• Minimum of 2+ years of commercial credit underwriting related experience, preferably in a bank or large financial institution
• Robust understanding of corporate finance and accounting concepts, experience in municipal credit /public finance a plus.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
• Effective time management skills with ability to balance multiple competing priorities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

• Bachelor's degree with emphasis in finance, accounting or economics

• Attention to Detail
• Financial Analysis
• Underwriting
• Written Communications
• Analytical Thinking
• Credit Documentation Requirements
• Credit and Risk Assessment
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling
• Recording/Organizing Information
• Business Acumen
• Collaboration
• Collateral Management
• Loan Structuring
• Prioritization