Senior Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager

East West Bank is seeking a Portfolio Manager for the Healthcare Finance specialty lending group responsible for underwriting, credit monitoring and portfolio management. Primary responsibilities include analyzing financial data to determine the merits of loan requests, recommending structure, as well as identifying cross selling/referring opportunities of other services.

Responsibilities include:

• Underwriting and managing structured revolving lines, real estate and cash flow leverage transactions according to the Bank establish guidelines and policies, working with the Relationship Manager.
• Ongoing monitoring of credit/covenant compliance.
• Analyzing and creating financial loan memorandums to generate new loans and modifications.
• Managing the renewal process by working with the Relationship Manager, the client and the credit department including increase/amendment/waiver.
• Partnering with the Relationship Manager as the point of contact for the client; acting as a liaison to the credit department, the commercial support staff and other internal business partners.
• Ensuring compliance with EWB regulatory and credit requirements.
• Being responsible for credit risk and quality of the portfolio.
• Developing problem loan credit solutions.
• Ensuring the portfolio administration and risk management of each client relationship follows established EWB credit policy, procedures, and business strategy as well as commercial and regulatory guidelines.
• Analyzing financial data to determine the merits of specific loan requests and recommend structure as well as aggressively managing the client relationship.
• Assisting with due diligence/analysis with new client relationships and opportunity memos as appropriate.
• As appropriate with experience, assisting in the development of junior bankers, credit analysts, and relationship associates.
• Making presentations on specific loans and participating in the bank's loan approval process, recommending approval and appropriate structure of credits.
• Performing other administrative duties required for the maintenance of a portfolio of clients.

Qualifications include:

• Bachelor's degree or combination of education and directly related experience.
• 7+ years healthcare lending experience in commercial banking and/or private credit and direct portfolio management and/or underwriting experience.
• Demonstrates strong underwriting, financial analysis and projection skills.
• Has strong understanding of credit policy and procedures and is able to accurately risk-rate loans/credits, evaluates both cash-flow and collateral-based loans/credits.
• Develop problem loan credit solutions.
• Has strong knowledge base in Treasury, FX and Derivative products and have demonstrated abilities in coordinating the resources of the bank to bring effective full service solutions to the company.
• Excellent presentation, verbal & written communication skills.
• Highly proficient in excel, modeling, etc.

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the United States. We do not offer visa sponsorship at this time.

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is USD $120,000.00/Yr. - USD $220,000.00/Yr. Exact offers will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.