Director of CRE Portfolio Management

What you will do:

• Lead, manage, coach, and develop a team of CRE Portfolio Managers, establishing clear performance expectations, appropriate workloads, accountability and consistent portfolio management practices.

• Provide senior-level oversight of the CRE portfolio, ensuring timely and effective credit monitoring, annual reviews, renewals, covenant compliance, risk rating and identification of emerging credit issues and negotiating workout scenarios with borrowers, as required.

• Provide guidance on complex credit structures, underwriting issues, loan modifications, renewals and participate in communication with borrowers as necessary.

• Review all problem loan reports prepared by Portfolio Managers and participate in approval presentation to Credit Administration.

• Monitor portfolio trends, including delinquencies, maturities, covenant exceptions, policy exceptions, risk rating migration, criticized/classified assets, and concentration level.

• Provide senior management with regular reporting regarding portfolio performance, credit trends, concentrations, interest rate reset risks, maturities, and exceptions.

• Travel Required 20-30 %.

Who You are:

• 12 years experience in accounting, loan analytics, and/or banking required.

• 5 years minimum leadership experience.

• Business management, finance, or related degree preferred.

• The successful candidate should possess experience and comprehensive knowledge of:

• Managing a large and diverse CRE portfolio.

• Managing a staff of CRE portfolio managers.

• Commercial real estate lending, underwriting, portfolio management and credit administration.

• CRE property types including multifamily, mobile home parks, retail, office and industrial.

• Commercial real estate cash-flow analysis, including net operating income, debt service coverage, loan-to-value, debt yield, capitalization rates, and sensitivity analysis.

• Borrower sponsor, guarantor and global cash-flow analysis.

• Commercial real estate loan structures including acquisition, construction, bridge, term, refinance and permanent financing.

• Risk-rating methodologies, criticized and classified assets, watch-list management and problem loan identification and resolution.

• Commercial real estate concentration risk, portfolio diversification, stress testing and scenario analysis.

• Banking regulations, regulatory guidance, credit policy requirements, appraisal and environmental standards and exception management.

• Portfolio management systems, loan origination systems, covenant monitoring tools, financial spreading software and reporting platforms.

• Principles of effective people management, succession planning and organizational development.

• Establish consistent processes, controls, standards and performance expectations.

• Interacting with Credit Administration, senior management and all stakeholders.

ADA Requirements:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.

• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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Pay Range: $180,000 - $240,000 annually

AIP Bonus up to 25%

Our comprehensive employee benefits program is designed for you to live your best life at work, home, and everywhere in between. Employees working 25 hours or more per week are eligible for health benefits effective the first day of the month following or coinciding with their date of hire.
Benefits package includes[1]:

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members

• Employer paid Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance, AD&D, and Disability benefits

• Health Savings Account with employer contribution

• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter/Parking Benefit

• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company contribution

• 529 Education Savings plan, Tuition Reimbursement Program and Student Loan Assistance Program

• Supplemental Health plans, Voluntary Legal and Identity Theft Services

• 11 paid holidays, paid Sick days (accrual of one hour for every 30 hours worked), up to 25 paid vacation days, and 16 hours of paid volunteer time throughout the calendar year

• Free personal checking and savings account; Discounted rates on primary residence loan with $0 origination fees (restrictions apply)

Final compensation package will be determined by the work experience, education, and/or skill level of the applicant along with internal equity and alignment with geographic market data.

• Mechanics Bank is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, or on the basis of disability, gender identity, sexual orientation or other bases prohibited by applicable law.

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[1] The benefits listed in this job posting reflect the Bank's most reasonable and genuinely expected benefits offered for this position.