Specialty Banking - President of Private Client & Sponsor Finance

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As a President of Private Client and Sponsor Finance, Texas this executive will lead the Texas market's Private Client and Sponsor Finance teams. This role carries full P&L accountability and is responsible for strategic growth, credit quality, and portfolio performance within sponsor-backed companies and high net worth individuals.

This executive will scale the Sponsor Finance and Private Client divisions in the Texas market, delivering solutions to private equity firms and high net worth individuals and families. This executive will oversee origination and structuring of senior-secured credit facilities, including revolving lines of credit, term loans, acquisition financing, and cash flow-based lending. This position partners closely with Credit, Risk, Treasury Management, and Executive Leadership to ensure disciplined underwriting, strong risk-adjusted returns, and regulatory compliance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive growth strategy for Sponsor Finance and Private Client that aligns with Vista Bank's overall business objectives.
• Drive deposit growth, loan production, and fee income growth within the Private Client and Sponsor Finance Texas segment.
• Oversee portfolio management, risk grading, covenant compliance, and concentration management.
• Collaborate with Middle Market Banking, Community Banking, Treasury, and Wealth teams on production, pipeline, and closings.
• Maintain strong relationships with private equity sponsors and key high net worth clients.
• Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing bankers.
• Promote collaboration across lines of business.
• Collaborate with Risk and Compliance teams to mitigate operational and reputational risk.
• Participate in community and business functions to ensure a positive image for the bank within the regional marketplace and establish referral contacts within the community.

Minimum Requirements: This position requires the following educational and/or job experience

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Business, Economics, or related field
• 15+ years of Private Banking / C&I lending experience
• 10+ years of experience in sponsor finance, leveraged lending, or private client commercial banking
• Demonstrated P&L management experience
• Extensive experience in credit structuring, cash flow underwriting, and financial statement analysis
• Proven leadership experience managing commercial banking teams

Desired Skills: Ideal candidates for this position should possess some or all of the following skills:

• MBA or advanced financial certification
• Experience leading a sponsor finance or structured finance vertical within a regional or national bank within Texas
• Strong knowledge of leveraged lending regulatory guidance
• Passionate and motivated self-starter
• A passion for building long-term commercial banking relationships and delivering disciplined credit solutions
• Strong work ethic and ability to complete work accurately
• Ability to think logically in order to analyze situations and make sound decisions
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to clearly and concisely articulate issues
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Capacity to work with multiple computer and software system

Work Environment:

We are a culture that believes that people are our greatest asset and are at the heart of everything we do. We take pride in bringing clarity and simplicity to our associates (employees) and clients. Our decisions are made efficiently, fairly, and locally. Our success is directly tied to the communities we serve. It is equally important for us to look through the lens of our applicants and associates to identify their individual needs. As such, we want to share the following:

• We are committed to our core value of meritocracy and supporting our associates in growing within their role
• An associate must be able to work overtime to the extent necessary (typically no more than 5%).
• Must be able to travel - 10% of the time.

Incentives and Benefits:

This role is eligible to participate in a commercial incentive plan, which can significantly increase your overall compensation. Incentives are earned annually based on the associate's performance against the defined metrics as outlined in the attached scorecard template.

In addition to your financial compensation, we also offer a generous benefits package that includes insurance, 401k, an associate stock purchase program, paid time off, associate banking perks. For more information about the benefits offered click here.

If this is what you believe in, then you're definitely right for us. Consider making an investment in us, so that we may invest in you and your bright future.

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The Bank is committed to providing qualified applicants and associates reasonable accommodation, when necessary, to enable the individuals to complete the application process and/or perform the essential functions of the job. An applicant and/or associate requiring reasonable accommodation to perform any essential job function, should contact Human Resources.
The Bank's policy is to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. The Bank is proud to be a drug-free workplace.

Selected candidate(s) for hire must complete the following prior to employment: a criminal history report, global screen, drug screen, employment credit report and if applicable, a driving record. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.