Vice President, Real Estate Lender

Job Description

Bring your ideas. Make history.

BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the “bank of banks” - 97% of the world’s top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital.

With over 240 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we’re approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what is all about.

As a leading wealth manager, BNY Mellon Wealth Management is focused on helping successful individuals and their families build, manage and sustain their wealth across generations and market cycles. Through a unique service model focused on five Active Wealth practices — Investing, Borrowing, Spending, Managing Taxes, Protecting Legacies — they help clients in the U.S. and abroad achieve stronger after-tax performance to help maintain their wealth over generations.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Credit Advisory I to join our Wealth Management team. This role is located in New York, NY and is hybrid.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Serve as a key contributor to Private Wealth’s commitment to lending, responsible for executing the credit strategy, underwriting, appraisal and portfolio management functions of the Private Banking Real Estate Lending Team.
• Provide independent and objective in-depth analysis and monitoring of credit quality for the most highly complex commercial real estate loans.
• Working with Wealth Management relationship managers/originators in structuring, underwriting, and proposing of new real estate secured loans.
• Accountable for a portfolio of loans and responsible for preparing the annual loan reviews in accordance with current credit policies and procedures.
• Maintain a high level of service standards and continuously strive to meet client objectives in the effort to consistently grow a high-quality nationwide portfolio.
• Adhere to established policies and procedures in managing the risks and minimizing potential losses while working within a time sensitive environment.
• Partner with Wealth Management relationship managers in marketing and identifying strong lending opportunities.
• Meets with clients to listen to their credit needs, flags possible transaction risks and suggests structured solutions.
• Propose the lending solutions and present term sheets to management, direct document preparation and lead negotiations through the closing process.
• No direct reports but may assist in development/mentoring/guidance of more junior associates on the team.
• Minimal travel may be required.
  
  

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• MBA is preferred.
• 5-7 years of total work experience preferred; experience in private bank lending or commercial banking preferred.
  
  

At BNY Mellon, our inclusive culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:

• Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI)
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 100% score Corporate Equality Index
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN – 100% score
• 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company
• CDP’s Climate Change ‘A List’
  
  

Our Benefits

BNY Mellon offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

BNY Mellon assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $73,100 and $126,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNYM total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

About Us

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments & safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.

Organization

As one of the nation's leading wealth managers, BNY Mellon Wealth Management is dedicated to helping individuals, families, planned giving programs, endowments, foundations and other institutions with all of their wealth and investment planning needs. By providing integrated products, services and solutions, we help them capitalize on opportunity while managing risk. Backed by more than two centuries of experience, we understand our clients' needs and deliver customized strategies to help them reach their goals.