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LOAN SPECIALIST

US Export-Import Bank of the United States
Los Angeles, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/18/2025

Duties

Please Note : Employees will be required to report to their assigned office location at least 2 days per week for non-supervisory positions and 3 days per week for supervisory / managerial positions unless the position advertised is designated as a remote-only position.

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The Senior Loan Officer position is located in the Office of the Senior Vice President of Board Authorized Finance (OBAF) of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM). The primary responsibility of the position is to support the most complex international portfolio of financial transactions under the guidance of the Supervisor.

Duties include, but are not limited to :

  • Performs as an expert in one or more of the division's subject matter areas such as project and / or corporate finance credit analytics, sectoral focus, complex restructuring and workout expertise, capital markets analysis, or other areas as may be determined.
  • Serves as a Relationship Manager for borrowers, lenders, and exporters for the most complex portfolios of transactions.
  • Performs broad and comprehensive research and analysis on the most complex portfolios and develops advanced level financial modeling (scenarios, probabilities, asset stress testing etc.) using financial information provided by borrowers, sponsors, lenders, guarantors, and public sources.
  • Negotiates, independently, financing terms with borrowers or other creditors for new authorizations, or in the event of post-authorization, changes to a transaction or restructuring of operative credits for existing authorizations. Negotiates with participants and coordinates with others for guarantees, risk sharing arrangements, other credit enhancements, or restructurings, as necessary. Prepares and presents key issues and recommendations in a memorandum and advocates the recommendation to the appropriate approval body. Represents the division by presenting before the Board of Directors.
  • Represents EXIM as an expert in a designated subject matter area at interagency meetings on government issues and policy; speaks at public conferences on EXIM programs and experience in the market, demonstrating expertise in one or more designated subject matter areas. Conference audiences may include domestic and foreign commercial participants, multilateral institutions, foreign governments, other export credit agencies, and exporter / bank industry groups.

Requirements Conditions of Employment

  • U.S. Citizenship
  • Background and Security / Suitability Investigation
  • You may be required to serve a one-year probationary period
  • Specialized experience MUST be documented on your resume
  • Current or Former Political Appointees : If you are, or have been employed in the last 5 years, you must disclose this information. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service.
  • The incumbent for this position will be subject to random drug testing once they begin working for EXIM.
  • The incumbent must obtain and maintain a national security Secret clearance.
  • Qualifications

    Specialized Experience :

    GS-14 : You must have one (1) year of specialized experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal Government or other equivalent pay systems. Specialized experience includes :

  • Experience as an expert in one or more of the division's subject matter areas such as credit analytics, originating new loans for complex limited recourse project finance transactions and loans to creditworthy corporate counterparties, or other areas as may be determined;
  • Experience serving as a relationship manager for borrowers, lenders, and exporters for transactions that are highly complex in their structure, e.g. Origination of new infrastructure loans in the power, high-tech, artificial intelligence, satellite or commodities sectors, and demonstrated ability to identify project and credit risks, and design resolutions and / or risk mitigants for multi-million dollar transactions;
  • Experience performing broad and comprehensive research and analysis on portfolios that includes transactions that are highly complex in their structure, e.g. experience with corporate finance structures such as asset-based, limited recourse project finance, export finance and developing advanced level financial modeling; AND
  • Experience independently negotiating financing terms with borrowers or other creditors for new authorizations, or in the event of post-authorization, negotiating changes to an operative transaction or to a restructured existing authorization.
  • Education cannot be substituted for experience at the GS-14 grade level.

    For qualification determinations, your resume must contain the following for each work experience listed :

  • Organization / Agency's Name
  • Title
  • Salary (series and grade, if applicable)
  • Start and end dates (including the month and year)
  • Number of hours you worked per week
  • Relevant experience that supports your response to the specialized experience that is stated in the job announcement
  • If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you will not receive consideration for this position.

    Education Additional information

    The salary range varies according to the geographic area locality adjustments; therefore, rates advertised represent the base pay only as pay will depend upon the selectee's duty location. See the 2025 OPM GS pay table .

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