SVP, Credit Administration at Wintrust Financial Corporation in Willowbrook, Illinois

Job Description:

Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $50 billion assets under management and traded on the NASDAQ:WTFC. Built on the "HAVE IT ALL" model, Wintrust offers sophisticated technology and resources of a large bank while focusing on providing service-based community banking to each and every customer. Wintrust operates fifteen community bank subsidiaries with over 170 banking locations in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin market areas. Additionally, Wintrust operates various non-bank business units including commercial and life insurance premium financing, short-term accounts receivable financing, out-sourced administrative services, mortgage origination and purchase, wealth management services and qualified intermediary services for tax-deferred exchanges.

As one of the department's Business Banking Credit Managers, the person in this role will understand and adhere to bank credit policy in his/her structuring of credit requests, manage and develop a team of underwriters, and assume responsibility for proper risk identification and mitigation, timely and accurate credit approvals, and credit administrative oversight of the Business Banking portfolio. Experience and comfort with a broad range of credit risk topics, an ability to identify when/how those issues might be adequately mitigated, and the comfort to approve credit requests & defend his/her credit decision are all key elements of this role.

From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life. To be Chicago’s Bank® and Wisconsin's Bank®, we need to reflect that diversity both in all the communities we serve, the people we employ, the organizations we work with, and our banking and lending practices. Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.