Head of Portfolio Management and Underwriting

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What you'll do:

• In this role you will serve as the principal liaison between Credit and the Line of Business, ensuring clear and transparent communication across both teams. You will need to define and preserve the underwriting and portfolio management standards across the entity, including risk scorecards and templates.
• You must maintain consistency in approach across groups through common architecture of approval requests. In order to do this, you must create, support and maintain training to achieve the standards outlined in your responsibilities.
• You will need to provide guidance to groups on how to add-on or tailor groups' individual practices to achieve underwriting and portfolio management consistency, while still allowing specialty groups to address specific needs and risk aspects of their individual businesses.
• You will also be required to provide guidance to groups on the Bank's credit risk appetite. Establish and define metrics, risk appetite and acceptance criteria, key performance indicators.
• You'll provide strategic guidance to the Credit Operations Teams
• You may lead and develop a team; responsible for hiring, coaching, performance management, training and development.

What you'll need:

• In this role you will serve as the principal liaison between Credit and the Line of Business, ensuring clear and transparent communication across both teams. You will need to define and preserve the underwriting and portfolio management standards across the entity, including risk scorecards and templates.
• You must maintain consistency in approach across groups through common architecture of approval requests. In order to do this, you must create, support and maintain training to achieve the standards outlined in your responsibilities.
• You will need to provide guidance to groups on how to add-on or tailor groups' individual practices to achieve underwriting and portfolio management consistency, while still allowing specialty groups to address specific needs and risk aspects of their individual businesses.
• You will also be required to provide guidance to groups on the Bank's credit risk appetite. Establish and define metrics, risk appetite and acceptance criteria, key performance indicators.
• You'll provide strategic guidance to the Credit Operations Teams
• You may lead and develop a team; responsible for hiring, coaching, performance management, training and development.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation