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The SouthState story is one of steady growth, deep community roots, and an unwavering commitment to helping our customers move forward. Since our beginnings in the 1930s to becoming a trusted financial partner across the South and beyond - we are known for combining personal relationships with forward-thinking solutions. We are committed to helping our team members find their success while maintaining the integrity of our values: building trust, fostering lasting relationships and pursuing excellence.
At SouthState, individual contributions are recognized, potential is cultivated and team members are inspired to achieve their greater purpose. Your future begins here! SUMMARY/OBJECTIVES The Director of Loan Syndications will be responsible for the creation and management of a new Commercial and Corporate product capability, from strategic concept to operational reality. The scope of the position will be comprehensive leadership of a new institutional expertise, and while reporting to within the Commercial and Corporate line of business, the role will have equally strong credit and risk orientation attributes in combination with sales and origination aspects.
The role will work in concert with the Director of Corporate Banking, the Chief Credit Officer along with Group Banking and State Presidents to develop and drive an appropriately risk-based, high-performing loan syndication strategy for South State’s Commercial and Corporate Bank. The position will largely support the activities and client base of the Middle Market team, but also select Commercial Banking and Commercial Real Estate clients and prospects, regionally focused and aligned with South State’s southeastern banking footprint.
Syndicated transactions would typically involve complex financial situations: for Middle Market clients, this would include financing working capital, capital projects, mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations; for Commercial Real Estate (CRE) clients, needs would include financing construction, mini-perm or permanent financing for commercial real estate projects spanning multi-family, warehouse, office and residential subdivisions.
The role will ensure careful alignment with Middle Market and CRE strategy and execution through close partnership with Middle Market regional team leaders and line and credit management. In addition, the position will also maintain close working relationships with the numerous internal support teams whose contributions will be required for effective performance and oversight (Operations, Risk, Legal, Finance, Marketing and Communications).
The Director of Loan Syndications will be both production and risk-focused, centered on driving loan growth and fee income from strategic Middle Market and Commercial Real Estate relationships, but also assisting in effective management of credit and concentration risk on the Bank’s balance sheet. To be successful, the position will be regarded as a technical expert as well as a credible partner and consultant to both internal banking teams as well as with external clients and prospects.
Initially, the focus of the role will be on leading the cross-functional project team tasked with establishing the internal processes, procedures, technology and reporting required to operationalize the essential functions of a regional loan syndication team. It is further expected that the loan syndication capability will be iterative, with both size and scale of the team evolving over time based on market opportunities, market conditions and credit appetite.
As the syndication capability matures, additional team resources will be added at the recommendation of the Director of Loan Syndications. The ideal candidate will be highly analytical, detail oriented, process driven, and client focused. The position requires a candidate who is an independent self-starter with a strong and diverse credit background, high attention to detail and solid relationshi