
Regional Credit Officer
Busey Bank
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Manager or above
1 week ago
- Pension
1 week ago
Position Summary
The Regional Credit Officer (RCO) oversees commercial credit underwriting and portfolio management for designated markets and lines of business, playing a critical role in developing sound borrower relationships, monitoring portfolio performance, and identifying and managing associated credit risks.Duties & Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of Commercial Credit Officers, Commercial Underwriters and Credit Analysts, including hiring, training, mentoring, and on-going professional development
- Ensure that timely underwriting is being achieved through regular communication with your team. Additionally communicate with Regional/Market leadership to ensure awareness of priorities for workflow
- Use financial data such as cash flow, liquidity, profitability, and leverage to determine and minimize the overall risk of extending credit to businesses and individuals
- Review the prospective loan grade of each approval to ensure it aligns with regulatory and policy definitions
- Assist with Portfolio Management duties that include reviewing financial covenants, annual/quarterly portfolio reviews, sensitive asset reports, exceptions reporting and monitoring borrowing bases
- Assist Commercial Relationship Managers with structuring loan opportunities through the preparation and review of opportunity memos, including establishing appropriate financial covenant structures, for new and existing relationships
- Maintain a working knowledge of the Commercial Banking Loan Policy, playbook and commercial lending technology platform
- Assist in the sales process, including accompanying Relationship Managers on customer and prospect calls
- Approve loans that are within defined authority levels; recommend loans for approval that are in excess of defined authority levels
- Participate in pipeline meetings to develop knowledge of prospective opportunities as well as upcoming renewals
- Communicate upstream with the Senior RCO and other Regional/Market leadership regularly to maintain an open dialogue regarding personnel matters, pipeline updates, credit migration/deterioration, including raising potential solutions to identified issues
- Serve as the Subject Matter Expert on Commercial & Industrial (C&I) borrowers and prospects for the Northern Illinois region.
- Assist with other duties or special projects as assigned
Education & Experience
Knowledge of:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, presentation, and critical thinking skills
- Comprehensive knowledge of the overall departmental function, including expert knowledge in Busey’s Commercial/Credit line of business
Ability to:
- Provide accurate and timely Commercial Analysis and Approval
- Take independent action within established options and develops new procedures and approaches to problems when necessary
- Analyze situations and solve problems
- Perform duties and make decisions under frequent time pressures
Education and Training:
- Requires Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in Business or Finance
- Requires 10 or more years of Commercial Credit experience with prior single signature approval authority
- Requires 5 or more years experience in a progressive management/leadership role
- Requires 5 or more years of prior experience with middle market-sized businesses with loan relationships of $10-$100 million
- Requires proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office
Regional Credit Officer · Busey Bank