NBL Senior Initiatives and Operations Manager

Job Title:

NBL Senior Initiatives and Operations Manager

Location:

CityScape

What you'll do:

As a National Business Line Senior Initiatives and Operations Manager you'll contribute to the development and execution of the Sponsor Finance business and broader National Business Lines strategy to achieve its goals and evaluate new business and performance improvement initiatives. You'll be responsible for evaluating and enhancing business initiatives by leveraging insights and experience of the internal and external business. Proactively looks for and evaluates solutions to current and future business opportunities and challenges.

• Responsible for supporting the Sponsor Finance and the National Business Line by evaluating new business development and performance improvements across business initiatives.
• Execute research and analysis including identification of key markets, market size opportunity, business value proposition, target market plans, etc. Identify associated business problems and risk to determine applicable solutions. Conduct a variety of business assessments, synthesize large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data.
• Provide decision-making support, data, and insights to support strategic decisions made by executives, and key stakeholders. Drive execution of recommendations through the business model and viability stage. Plan, implement, and operationalize new business initiatives.
• Initiate and lead National Business Line projects, including the development and documentation of processes to improve the efficiency of business operations. Ensure a change management and sustainment plan is in place to support introduction of new business initiatives, products, or services.
• Lead or support management of complex or stress sponsor relationships.  Develop and execute remediation, restructuring, or exit strategies.
• Serve as a liaison between Sponsor Finance, business line leadership, and executive management. Provide clear reporting on portfolio performance, risks, and initiatives. Drive alignment across credit coverage and operations.
• Support development of credit standards, policies, and underwriting frameworks. Mentor team members and share best practices. Identify opportunities to improve pricing discipline, capital utilization and efficiency.

What you'll need:

• 7+ years of related experience in Consulting, Strategic Analysis or similar field.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required; Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.
• Intermediate knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Previous experience in financial services and management consulting firm and/or professional services firm experience.
• Strong financial acumen, experience working with and interpreting data with analytic and strong conceptual thinking skills.
• Excellent analytical and organization skills.
• Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.

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, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, 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 [email protected] 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.

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