Risk Management - Middle Market Specialized Industries Lead Credit Officer Vice President

Bring your expertise to JPMorgan Chase. As part of Risk Management and Compliance you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks and using your expert judgement to solve realworld challenges that impact our company customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box challenging the status quo and striving to be bestinclass.

As a Vice President in Middle Market Banking and Specialized Industry Credit Risk you will partner with a cross functional team delivering credit solutions that support a range of needs from working capital and general corporate purposes to acquisition finance and dividend recapitalizations. Additionally you will work with familyowned businesses financial sponsors and some publicly traded companies. This role is responsible for underwriting and structuring new financing solutions as well as ongoing portfolio management with on both a bilateral basis and in the syndicated finance market. This Vice President position involves extensive interaction with clients internal partners legal counsel and other lenders etc. This risk management position supports Middle Market Banking and Specialized Industries for the Indiana and Kentucky regions which covers companies generally between $20 million and $2 billion in revenues across a wide variety of industries.

Job Responsibilities

• Utilize excellent credit analysis and financial modeling skills to underwrite and structure new transactions and work independently on the assigned credit portfolio. Appropriately assess risks / mitigants balance risk / reward diligently manage renewals amendments and new transactions as well as maintain acceptable credit reporting metrics.
• Form well thought out independent views and be able to voice your opinion in a clear concise manner and to defend that position with partners and senior leadership.
• Lead complex transactions including negotiations and legal documentation for bilateral and syndicated finance structures.
• Work proactively in a constructive diplomatic manner with both internal and external contacts to keep transactions moving.
• Act with a sense of urgency and drive to meet both internal and client deadlines.
• Partner effectively to develop fulsome client relationships including being looked to as an expert on Structuring and Credit Policy and will be viewed as the goto person for credit by both internal partners and clients.
• Provide leadership in the market by being a positive contributor to the team including being a mentor to less experienced team members embracing change and participating in various projects or improvement exercises for the benefit of the organization.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills both internally and externally and use those communication skills to effectively solve problems.

Required Qualifications Skills and Capabilities

• BA/BS/BBA degree is required
• Completion of a major corporate or commercial bank credit training program (or the equivalent corporate banking/corporate finance experience) and a thorough understanding of bank credit policies and procedures
• At least 5 years experience in commercial banking/lending including extensive credit analysis structuring and loan documentation experience
• Significant accounting and finance knowledge and superior financial modeling skills
• Strong working knowledge of credit agreements and other loan documentation along with solid negotiation skills
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written skills interpersonal skills and analytical and problemsolving skills
• Excellent organizational and project management skills; able to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong partnerships.
• Intellectual curiosity with a proven ability to learn quickly
• High degree of initiative selfdirection and ability to work well under pressure