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Baker Tilly

Senior Manager, CCIA

Baker Tilly, Milwaukee, WI


Overview

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Job Description:

Responsibilities

Looking for a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact with your lending and management skills?

Join Baker Tilly's Community Development Lending Practice on the Development & Community Advisory team and support our Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Community Development Entity (CDE) clients in their efforts to manage programs available through the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, other federal agencies, and private sector groups. CDFIs and CDEs leverage these critical initiatives to make positive impacts to low-income communities nationwide.

This position will serve our existing CDFI and CDE client base in an expanded fashion while acting as a catalyst to grow the practice. You will collaborate with subject-matter specialists on our community development team to assist clients in managing their loan programs, with a particular focus on clean energy financing. Key functions include understanding the nuances of loan program underwriting and management and programs available to CDFIs and CDEs, process implementation and management and clear written communication abilities.
  • Provide strategic consulting services related to community development finance with a particular focus on the EPA's Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) program
  • Create and administer training and tools related to loan program administration, including underwriting, for CDFIs and community lenders
  • Collaborate with other team members and subject-matter specialists to coordinate, develop, and manage technical content for client engagements
  • Participate in strategic planning process around existing and emerging CDFI opportunities
  • Partner with internal managers to determine applicability of programs to existing client base
  • Project manage program administration
  • Handle all assignments with care and confidentiality

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 5 to 7 years of lending experience required; clean energy financing experience preferred
  • CDFI industry experience a plus
  • Grant application experience a plus
  • Excellent writing, analytical and organizational skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills and communication skills for internal (team) and external (client) communications
  • Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
  • Strong work ethic and willingness to work extended periods as needed based on specific deadlines/application windows at certain times of the year
  • Interest in taking an opportunity from concept to significant growth/future buildout and playing a leadership role