Strategic Commercial Banking Growth Partner

First-Horizon-Bank; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical + dental + vision

HSA with company match

Maternity & parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Mentor program

401(k) with 6% match

Job summary

First Horizon Bank in Houston seeks an experienced Relationship Manager to grow and service a commercial client portfolio. You will analyze credit strengths, structure loans, and collaborate with underwriters to ensure competitive pricing and sound risk management.

Responsibilities include maintaining client relationships, coordinating deal teams, and mentoring colleagues, while staying compliant with lending policies and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor (4-year college) degree
• 6-8 years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel

Responsibilities

• Maintains a client portfolio for the bank
• Expand existing client relationships to generate incremental revenue for the bank
• Work with the Management and Underwriters to analyze the credit strengths and weaknesses of prospective borrowers and make loan decision recommendations, make recommendations on loan pricing which are competitive with the marketplace and achieve an acceptable return for the bank, and structure loans (term, covenants, collateral, guarantees, etc.) which appropriately protects the bank
• Work with Management to recognize client needs and matching the bank's capabilities to meet these needs
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of bank's lending policies and regulatory requirements
• Provide mentoring and training to other bank associates
• Maintain proper house-holding of relationships
• Continually upload financial information and client detail into central repository throughout the underwriting process.
• Gather financials for new and renewal opportunities with clients.
• Prepare Opportunity Memos (with Management) as needed for new and renewal requests to initiate underwriting process.
• Work directly with the underwriter to ensure accurate reflection of financials and to ensure accurate preparation of Loss Given Default, Probability of default and Risk Adjusted Return on Capital models at time of new/renew requests.
• Coordinate deal team meetings between Relationship Manager, Market President, Senior Credit Officer, and Underwriter
• CRM and Under Writer work together to appropriately ensure accuracy of underwriting package
• Finalize term sheets to meet client and bank needs
• Engage underwriting to update results of term sheet accordingly and as needed to be reviewed by deal team
• Builds and maintains a portfolio mix of targeted high value and high potential clients.
• Acts as a financial advisor by educating the customer about financial strategies (e.g. Financial planning, investments, insurance, credit, market trends) based on customer profile and financial plan, and matching customer needs with appropriate products and services. Monitors customer information/products, financial plan and market trends to identify new customer needs and opportunities to deliver further customer value.
• Work with Manager to coordinate credit decision with Market President, Senior Credit Officer, Executive Credit Officer, Chief Credit Officer and Chief Operations Officer. Create/Prepare Commitment Letter with Management supervision
• Finalize any required conditions precedent as needed to ensure Loan Closing has all items needed
• Responsible for reviewing closing documents, communicating with clients and identifying portfolio weaknesses and trends and alerting management (Group Manager, Market President, Senior Credit Officer) to deteriorating portfolio conditions
• Ensures client adherence to covenants with review of calculations, key provisions, and recommendations according to policy
• Performs all other duties as assigned

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

First Horizon Bank in Houston seeks an experienced Relationship Manager to grow and service a commercial client portfolio. You will analyze credit strengths, structure loans, and collaborate with underwriters to ensure competitive pricing and sound risk management.

Responsibilities include maintaining client relationships, coordinating deal teams, and mentoring colleagues, while staying compliant with lending policies and regulatory requirements.