Vice President, Portfolio Management Team Leader - Juris Banking Lending

Job Title:

Vice President, Portfolio Management Team Leader - Juris Banking Lending

Location:

CA - San Diego, 450 B St

What you'll do:

As a Vice President, Portfolio Management Team Leader, you will operate as an extension of senior leadership, driving day-to-day lending team execution and cross-functional collaboration. The position manages a team of portfolio managers and analysts who support our Juris Banking Lending and Deposit Sales teams. Your team is responsible for underwriting and originating loans to law firms and related businesses, as well as managing the health of existing relationships while ensuring compliance with the Bank’s lending policies and procedures.
Western Alliance uses a team-based approach to portfolio management and so you'll work with a team that includes commercial bankers, business development officers, and partners from credit administration, loan administration, credit risk review, and others.

• Manage workflow of portfolio managers and credit analysts. Own end-to-end loan execution for your team, including prioritization, resource allocation, and delivery against timelines. Drive process improvements and workflow efficiency.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for standard transactions and portfolio risks.
• Partner closely with the sales team to develop new and maintain existing client relationships while ensuring a timely credit process from start to finish.
• Interface with clients in-person, over the phone, and email to assess their credit needs and determine the best structure and items needed for analysis. Complete prescreening of loans to quickly assess the Bank’s ability to potentially lend.
• Review work from portfolio managers and credit analysts, including prescreen memos, loan presentations, risk rating reviews, financial analysis, action plans and other common portfolio management requirements, as necessary.
• Supervise a variety of general portfolio management activities, including credit concentration reviews and portfolio optimization, critical analysis of trends and factors impacting various projects.
• Lead and develop a team; responsible for hiring, coaching, performance management, training and development.
• Reinforce superior customer service through your own example along with appropriate follow-through with involved customers and employees.

What you'll need:

• 8+ years of related experience in Portfolio Management or similar position with advanced knowledge of the underwriting of commercial credits at a bank, including loan structuring.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Previous leadership experience required.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and project management skills for a variety of tasks or projects.
• Advanced knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.
• Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.
• Ability to deal with difficult problems involving multiple facets, variables in non-standardized situations.

Compensation: Salary range for new hires is generally $170,000.00 - $212,547.00 for San Diego, CA. Salary range for new hires is generally $183,691.00 - $220,105.00 for San Jose, CA. Salary range for new hires is generally $183,691.00 - $220,105.00 for New York, NY. 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, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, 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 individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email [email protected] or call 602-386-2488.  When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue.  We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

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