Jobs at Western Alliance Bank

Manages complex commercial loan portfolios by analyzing, structuring, underwriting, and coordinating loan closings. Partners with commercial bankers and clients to assess credit needs, prepare financing requests, monitor credit risk, ensure regulatory and lending-policy compliance, and resolve loan processing or servicing issues. Supports portfolio growth, customer service, and banking goals through effective underwriting and portfolio management.

Leads the Entertainment and Media Banking team, executing growth strategies, expanding loan and deposit portfolios, structuring commercial credit transactions, managing portfolio risk, and presenting deals to credit committees. Oversees relationship managers and portfolio staff while supporting customer retention, market responsiveness, regulatory compliance, and banking operations. Hires, coaches, and develops team members and may travel up to 50%.

Participate in Western Alliance Bank’s 10-week Sponsor Finance internship, supporting financial analysis, credit underwriting, and deal execution for private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts and acquisitions. Work alongside commercial banking professionals on challenging projects, receive mentorship, and participate in leadership development and team-building activities.

Paid 10-week summer internship offering undergraduate students hands-on experience through commercial banking projects, mentoring, leadership development, and team-building activities. Interns will work collaboratively in Western Alliance Bank’s Innovation Banking Group, applying analytical, communication, conceptual, and organizational skills while exploring commercial business banking careers.

Manage lender finance portfolios by analyzing and underwriting large corporate loans and structured products, coordinating loan closings, monitoring credit risks, and presenting recommendations to senior management or loan committees. Responsibilities include evaluating investment performance, making buy/hold/sell recommendations, preparing portfolio scorecards, recommending collateral marks, ensuring loan processing complies with agreements and bank policies, and resolving portfolio issues.

Manage lender finance portfolios involving $25M+ corporate loans and structured products. Analyze and underwrite credit, assess investment performance, recommend buy/hold/sell decisions and collateral marks, monitor portfolio risks, prepare scorecards, present recommendations to senior management and loan committees, and coordinate loan closings and servicing in accordance with bank policies.

Leads Non-QM and AUS Jumbo whole-loan trading strategy, including pricing, execution, hedging, best-execution decisions, inventory, risk management, and counterparty relationships. Partners with sales, operations, underwriting, servicing, finance, and compliance to optimize production profitability and settlement. Oversees pricing frameworks, securitization alternatives, market risk reporting, and trading team development. Requires deep expertise in non-agency mortgage capital markets, PLS execution, cash-flow modeling, and secondary marketing.

Reviews compliance data, reports, and processes against internal policies and regulations. Supports the Compliance Management System through risk assessments, issue management, policy reviews, control evaluations, exam management, and monitoring. Advises stakeholders on regulatory interpretation and risk mitigation, tracks corrective actions, validates control effectiveness, identifies process improvements, and prepares reports for management and risk committees. The role focuses on residential and correspondent mortgage lending compliance.

Analyze, structure, underwrite, and coordinate closing of commercial loans; monitor credit risk and portfolio performance; prepare financing requests for approval; ensure regulatory and policy compliance; support Relationship Managers and provide customer service.