Credit Officer, Global Wealth & Investment Management

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · Los Angeles, CA +2

This role is for a Credit Officer in Global Wealth & Investment Management at Bank of America. The primary focus is on developing and supporting strategies to identify and deliver credit opportunities to wealth management clients and prospects, working closely with Financial Advisors and other internal teams. Responsibilities include establishing new credit relationships, expanding existing ones, and generating balance and revenue growth with appropriate risk-adjusted returns. The role requires experience in finance/banking, marketing/selling private wealth credit solutions, client relationship cultivation, loan structuring, and financial analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. Acts as an extension of the Credit Advisor.
  2. Responsible for actively developing and supporting strategies to identify and deliver credit opportunities (e.g., LMA, ISBL, PCL, Custom Lending & Margin) to Financial Advisors existing wealth management clients and prospects.
  3. Ensuring wealth management clients are knowledgeable of the Banks full suite of GWIM credit solutions and by supporting the flawless delivery of these solutions through a high-touch advisor/client experience.
  4. Establish new credit relationships with the financial advisors wealth management clients/ prospects in addition to supporting/ expanding existing GWIM credit relationships with the intent of generating balance and revenue growth with appropriate risk adjusted returns.
  5. Work with Financial Advisors, Wealth Management Clients, GWIM Custom Lending Credit Advisors, GWIM Credit leadership, Risk Management and other specialist organizations to meet these objectives.

Skills

Required

  • Progressively responsible experience in the job offered or a related finance / banking occupation

Nice to have

  • Marketing and selling Private Wealth credit solutions with a goal to engage and influence audience behavior to address the lending needs of clients
  • Cultivating relationships with clients and Financial Advisors to identify credit opportunities and grow lending business
  • Negotiating with Underwriting and Risk on behalf of the client to structure sound loans including securities based loans, Commercial real estate loans, Recreational real estate loans, Hedge Fund loans, Fine Art loans, Yacht loans, Unsecured loans, and other miscellaneous loans
  • Conducting financial analysis including ratio analysis, DSC analysis, and collateral evaluations to determine viability of loan opportunities
  • Assessing existing portfolio of loans ensuring compliance with financial covenants and reporting, resolving margin calls, and debt service failures
  • Attention to Detail
  • Business Development
  • Loan Structuring
  • Portfolio Management
  • Relationship Building
  • Active Listening
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Client Management
  • Customer and Client Focus
  • Profitability Analysis
  • Collaboration
  • Financial Forecasting and Modeling
  • Pipeline Management
  • Sales Performance Management
  • Sales Strategy