Portfolio Manager

Cross Border Banking Team Portfolio Manager

East West Bank is currently seeking a Portfolio Manager for our Cross Border Banking Team in Texas. The Portfolio Manager is responsible for underwriting, credit monitoring and portfolio management of Commercial Banking relationships between US and China. 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 assisting Relationship Managers in underwriting, managing and structuring all types of commercial credits, ongoing monitoring of existing credits and portfolio servicing, analyzing and creating financial loan write-ups to generate new loans, managing the renewal process by working with Relationship Managers, clients and the credit department on requests including increases/amendments/waivers, partnering with Relationship Managers as the point of contact for clients; acting as a liaison to the credit department, various commercial support teams and other internal business partners, ensuring compliance with EWB regulatory and credit requirements, assisting in accurately risk rating loans/credits, developing problem loan credit solutions, working with credit analyst in reviewing existing credits, ensuring the portfolio administration and risk management of each client relationship is in compliance with established EWB credit policy, procedure and business strategy as well as commercial and regulatory guidelines, co-managing commercial relationships by 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, opportunity memos as appropriate, assisting in the development of junior bankers, credit analysts, and relationship associates, performing other administrative duties required for the maintenance of a portfolio of clients, and performing other duties and special projects as needed.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree or combination of education and directly related experience, 10+ years of commercial banking experience with a minimum of 5 years of direct underwriting and portfolio management experience, professional working proficiency in Mandarin and or Cantonese is a plus, flexibility to travel (domestic) for client meetings, strong underwriting ability, 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, strong knowledge in Commercial and Industrial Loans including Asset Based transactions and Owner Occupied CRE Loans, proficiency in Excel for purposes of financial modeling, background in Accounting preferred, and excellent interpersonal skills with focus on quality and integrity.