Head of Portfolio Management and Underwriting

Job Title:

Head of Portfolio Management and Underwriting

Location:

CityScape

What youll do:

As the Head of Portfolio Management and Underwriting you will establish common expectations and standards with respect to portfolio management and underwriting practices across the enterprise. Youll collaborate with various lines of business commercial bankers and credit to successfully manage portfolio and underwriting practices. Under your direction the underwriting and portfolio management teams will be expected to cover the credit portfolio and work with relationship managers and product partners to address client and prospect requests as well as routine monitoring of the existing portfolio.

• In this role you will serve as the principal liaison between Credit and the Line of Business ensuring clear and transparent communication across both teams. You will need to define and preserve the underwriting and portfolio management standards across the entity including risk scorecards and templates.
• You must maintain consistency in approach across groups through common architecture of approval order to do this you must create support and maintain training to achieve the standards outlined in your responsibilities.
• You will need to provide guidance to groups on how to add-on or tailor groups individual practices to achieve underwriting and portfolio management consistency while still allowing specialty groups to address specific needs and risk aspects of their individual businesses.
• You will also be required to provide guidance to groups on the Banks credit risk appetite. Establish and define metrics risk appetite and acceptance criteria key performance indicators.
• Youll provide strategic guidance to the Credit Operations Teams
• You may lead and develop a team; responsible for hiring coaching performance management training and development.

What youll need:

• In this role you will serve as the principal liaison between Credit and the Line of Business ensuring clear and transparent communication across both teams. You will need to define and preserve the underwriting and portfolio management standards across the entity including risk scorecards and templates.
• You must maintain consistency in approach across groups through common architecture of approval order to do this you must create support and maintain training to achieve the standards outlined in your responsibilities.
• You will need to provide guidance to groups on how to add-on or tailor groups individual practices to achieve underwriting and portfolio management consistency while still allowing specialty groups to address specific needs and risk aspects of their individual businesses.
• You will also be required to provide guidance to groups on the Banks credit risk appetite. Establish and define metrics risk appetite and acceptance criteria key performance indicators.
• Youll provide strategic guidance to the Credit Operations Teams
• You may lead and develop a team; responsible for hiring coaching performance management training and development.

Benefits youll love:
We offer all the important things youd 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 addition youll 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 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 or call . 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.

Western Alliance Bancorporation

Required Experience:

Director