Director Portfolio Management MMB

Director, Portfolio Management

The Director, Portfolio Management role will work within the Commercial Banking Middle Market division and will partner with portfolio and relationship managers to support (i) underwriting new commercial loans for private and publicly owned businesses and (ii) the ongoing portfolio management of existing lending relationships. Responsibilities include conducting underwriting due diligence, financial analysis of borrowers and guarantors, preparation of internal credit memos, presentation of underwriting diligence and portfolio management results to credit committee, monitoring covenant compliance, risk ratings and credit quality of the portfolio, and other activities in support of the region's overall goals.

Throughout the process the Portfolio Manager will interact with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including credit professionals, capital markets, company management, investment bankers, legal counsel, and operations personnel. The position will also have the opportunity to teach and mentor junior deal team members.

• Lead underwriting due diligence and partner with relationship managers and junior deal team members to produce deal screen and underwriting documents
• Interface with clients and other stakeholders to facilitate underwriting process
• Detail debt financings and company financials utilizing Excel and Webster’s credit management platform, Sageworks
• Perform sensitivity analysis and modeling of projected cash flows
• Draft approval document narrative, thoroughly identify all risks and mitigating factors, document variances to policy/procedures, and assign accurate risk grade
• Responsible for presenting underwriting memos to credit committee
• Support legal documentation drafting and negotiations
• Facilitate loan closing process with commercial loan operations
• Review, spread, and maintain periodic financial statements, compliance certificates and borrowing base reports
• Engage with borrowers’ CFOs (or similar position) to get qualitative updates on performance
• Listen to annual or other interim lender update calls and ask questions, when appropriate
• Ensure the timely completion of renewals, annual reviews, and interim analyses.
• Ensure borrower is assigned an appropriate risk rating
• Present internal portfolio review memos to senior credit executives at periodic meetings
• Execute all amendments/waivers for existing borrowers
• Maintain ticklers, covenants, and borrower credit files
• Maintain customer information and data integrity on bank systems
• Ensure compliance with all regulations, policies, and procedures
• Generate new ideas and recommendations for continuous process improvement
• Represent Webster Bank as a brand ambassador at business and charitable events
• Participate in special projects on an as-needed basis

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree; courses in accounting and finance field preferred
• Experience:
  
  4-7 years of prior professional experience or equivalent; professional experience in Accounting/Finance/Banking-related position is preferred
• Excellent analytic skills and attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong competency in Microsoft Office suite – including Excel and PowerPoint; experience with financial modeling is required
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with relationship managers, portfolio managers, credit officers, clients, and senior management
• The ability to answer unstructured business questions and work independently to drive tasks to completion
• Locations:
  Connecticut:
  New Haven, Stamford, Hartford;
  Hybrid schedule

Webster Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries (“Webster”) are equal opportunity employers that are committed to sustaining an inclusive environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.