Commercial Middle Market Leadership Program - June 2025 - Grand Rapids

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Be a part of Fifth Third Bank's landmark early talent program that allows recent college graduates to participate in hands-on leadership development supporting Commercial Middle Market Banking. This is a paid professional development opportunity where you'll learn Fifth Third Bank's business practices, operations, and procedures.

You will be responsible and accountable for risk, encouraged to openly exchange ideas and opinions, elevate concerns, and follow policies and procedures to safeguard the company. Doing the right thing for customers and colleagues is key; you'll ensure their actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience, achieving real results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.

The Commercial Middle Market Leadership Program (CMMLP) is a two-year rotational program designed to give college graduates real-world experience in a professional setting. Leveraging credit and commercial expertise, this team delivers innovative solutions to middle market companies in the U.S. and across the globe. Within this program, you will focus on key disciplines such as credit analysis, portfolio and risk management and relationship strategies in Commercial & Industrial Lending and the Business Banking Group. Through guided and self-directed learning and training activities, this program gives participants exposure to professional development, critical skill building, and helps them prepare for a career in financial services.

Strengthen your business acumen through exposure to Fifth Third Bank's senior leaders, performance coaching and feedback, mentoring relationships, leadership and professional development opportunities, and develop a professional network that includes some of the best talent in the industry.

What You'll Do

Participants will have exposure to credit and sales rotations and get hands-on training from industry leaders, developing skills in assessing credit risk by analysis of financial statements, cash flow, industry, collateral, guarantor, loan structure and developing key critical thinking skills needed in a career driving economic growth. Get meaningful work experience and targeted educational opportunities to develop future organizational leaders in a rotation-based model that will give you exposure to multiple business areas. Upon program completion, you'll have access to potential placement opportunities in roles such as: Commercial Associate Relationship Manager, Credit Analyst or Business Banking Client Manager.

Your days will be filled with fast-paced on-the-job training and development as a vital part of the team. In meetings, you won't be expected to be seen and not heard; your ideas will be important to the company's strategies going forward. You'll meet with senior leaders, soaking in their experience and insights, while developing your own skills based on their guidance. This isn't a role where you'll be making copies and fetching coffee for employees. You'll be a meaningful part of the team, gaining valuable experience and getting first-hand insights on how to run a major banking institution.

JOB DUTIES

• Complete the underwriting process with oversight (by the end of the 1st rotation)
• Assess credit risk using financial statement, cash flow, industry, collateral, guarantor, and loan structure analyses
• Update financial covenants as needed
• Run Probability of Default (PD) model with oversight
• Partner with Portfolio Managers to support the daily underwriting and credit monitoring duties while performing analytical tasks as needed
• Understand and evaluate completed spreads to determine necessary edits
• Identify and recommend preliminary portfolio management actions using credit service reporting and RADAR with oversight
• Grow technical skills to assess credit risk using analysis of financial statements, cash flow, industry, collateral, guarantor, and loan structure
• Use Dealpoint Profitability Analyzer to assess the client relationship and determine RAROC value.
• Assist in identifying and qualifying prospects with relationship manager
• Partner with Relationship Managers to perform projects or analytical tasks as needed
• Draft initial deal screen / opportunity memos.
• Build an extensive network of contacts within Commercial and supporting divisions.
• Attend formal training classes, complete assigned e-Learning courses and participate in extensive self-learning
• Reliable transportation is required, and all candidates must be willing and able to travel to other Fifth Third locations and to meet our client needs across the region.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

Upon hire, a completed four-year undergraduate degree in Business required (accounting, economics, finance degrees preferred) with a graduation date within 2024-2025

• A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based immigration sponsorship now or in the future
• Campus involvement/leadership experience
• Relevant internship/co-op experience
• Basic Excel proficiency (data entry, formatting, charts, basic formulas, Vlookup) required.
• Ability to complete both guided and self-directed learning activities
• Financial and industry acumen

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