Vice President, Portfolio Management (Native American Financial Services Portfolio and Gaming)

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Location: 127 Public Square, Cleveland Ohio

Job Summary The Native American Financial Services Group (NAFS) provides a variety of financial solutions to the Native American Community.  Tailored solutions often call for multiple disciplines within the KeyBank and Key Banc Capital Markets teams to come together to bring the capacity of Key to the client in the most effective and efficient manner.  This position is responsible for managing all aspects of the NAFS portfolio of tribal clients, including underwriting loans and other credit products for complex tribal governments and their business enterprises working with legal counsel to review and structure loan documentation, ongoing credit monitoring and analysis, and covenant compliance.  The Portfolio Manager must understand all aspects of each client's governmental operations and multiple enterprise businesses, including gaming and casino businesses.  A strong understanding of fund accounting, GASB and GAAP financing principles is a minimum requirement. The Portfolio Manager is responsible for monitoring individual clients and portfolio trends.  The position is also a focal contact point for ongoing communications with tribal and enterprise CFO's, and legal teams representing the bank and client.  This position plays an active role in formulating credit structure, approval and hold recommendations with the Relationship Managers.  Syndicated loan transactions are common, serving as both the Administrative Agent and as a Participant lender.

The VP, Portfolio Management is an individual contributor responsible for performing financial analysis and preparing underwriting documents to support multimillion-dollar corporate credit requests that grow funded assets and Key's client base, while maintaining asset quality within a moderate risk profile. These requests include obtaining initial approval for new, occasionally complex, credit exposure (e.g., revolving credit facilities, term loans, leases, foreign exchange products, derivatives products, and other ancillary products) and amendments to existing exposure. Additionally, the VP, Portfolio Management is responsible for ongoing credit monitoring and risk rating for a portfolio of corporate clients with a complexity profile commensurate to experience (primarily participation in other bank's syndicated deals with a small number of Left Lead deals), reviewing legal documentation, and assisting product partners in cross-selling additional bank products. This individual should demonstrate leadership skills within credit underwriting and portfolio management; they may work somewhat independently, or in conjunction with other Portfolio Managers (PMs) on a deal team, providing feedback and guidance to junior staff as appropriate. As part of the first line of defense, Vice President PMs are expected to consistently demonstrate a solutions-oriented, growth mindset that is supportive of line of business goals while still maintaining a moderate risk appetite and upholding asset quality.

Essential Functions • Gather and analyze all relevant financial data for, often high value, clients or prospects, including spreading financial statements and/or collaborating with third party vendor to ensure accuracy of financial spreads statements, analyzing historical performance, accurately calculating credit metrics, identifying risks and mitigants, and assessing creditworthiness, etc. while effectively utilizing and providing feedback to, third party resources. • Model future financial performance of clients and prospects, including downside scenarios. • Demonstrate leadership in structuring transactions, in collaboration with Business Partners/Bankers/and Relationship Managers. Viewed as a value-add financial advisor by the client/borrower, critical and knowledgeable contributor to the deal team and respected by Credit for a solid reputation managing risk. • Perform enhanced leveraged cash flow due diligence, when appropriate (i.e., in specific Banking Group Portfolio Management, "BGPM" specialty groups). • Prepare a thorough credit underwriting document identifying credit risks and mitigants, industry concerns, market share trends, financial trends, and other pertinent credit issues. • Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations including Know Your Customer (KYC), running MCA/Patriot Act/OFAC checks as well as certifying Beneficial Ownership. • Manage the approval process for, occasionally complex, lending commitments, amendments, waivers, and consents, including providing monitoring, reporting and/or making recommendations to Credit Executives as appropriate. • Review and properly maintain all necessary legal documentation including credit agreements, guarantees, security pledges, and collateral documentation to ensure that the documentation correctly reflects approval. • Monitor accounts/ongoing financial performance of portfolio to track covenant compliance, determine liquidity, earnings trends, management capability and other essential information to secure the bank's position to minimize potential losses. Ensure data integrity in Key's systems and reporting and that all assets remain appropriately risk rated at all times, with timely changes. • Identify potential problem accounts and work with our Asset Recovery Group, as appropriate, to improve the bank's position in undesirable situations. • Establish and maintain direct client relationships. Attend management presentations, bank meetings and conduct plant/site visits as appropriate to monitor business conditions and/or identify new underwriting, and/or additional bank product opportunities. • Contribute to, or prepare white papers on assigned industry segments, as requested. • Evaluates the formation documents of tribal governments, including constitutions, referendum rights, and authorities to enter into private sector contracts. • Evaluates the formation documents of tribal enterprises and their legal status and authorities required to enter in

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