Credit Advisor - Global Wealth & Investment Management

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · Newport Beach, CA

This is a client-facing Credit Advisor role at Bank of America within Global Wealth & Investment Management. The primary responsibilities include developing new credit relationships with strategic wealth clients, driving loan balance and revenue growth, managing an existing credit portfolio, and educating advisors on credit solutions. The role requires strong credit and commercial/UHNW experience, business development, loan structuring, and relationship management skills. It is a product-focused role within the fintech domain, with a mature AI maturity signal as it's a traditional financial institution.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leads the growth of funded loans and revenue, while mitigating risks and adhering to regulatory requirements
  2. Develops, deepens, and sustains relationships with market leadership, Advisors, and clients, while building credibility
  3. Creates a client-centric culture by applying in-depth knowledge of clients, timely renewals, and issue resolution, and providing competitive deal structuring while serving as the key point of contact for credit clients
  4. Educates key partners and Advisors on platform capabilities and risk appetite to increase engagement and penetration
  5. Partners and collaborates with Underwriting, Risk, Operations, and Portfolio Management to deliver a seamless client experience

Skills

Required

  • 10 plus years of commercial credit or wealth management credit experience
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Effectively present to Private Bank leadership and advisors around Custom Credit
  • Strong credit skills (commercial / UHNW)
  • Organized and can handle/prioritize several transactions at the same time
  • Ability to work well with underwriting, risk, and other business partners
  • Find new deals, structure, prepare deal sheets, negotiate, and close complex loan structures
  • Conduct preliminary analysis to determine viability of loan opportunities (run ratios, DSC analysis, risk rating estimates, etc.
  • Manage ongoing loan portfolio (reporting, covenants, etc.)

Nice to have

  • Ability to structure loans to UHNW clients secured by commercial real estate, securities, artwork, hedge funds, yachts, as well as unsecured loans
  • BS degree / MBA

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory requirements
  • risk appetite
  • risk appetite