I work at an industrial bank doing something similar to what you describe. The bank extends asset-based lines of credit to small- to medium-sized businesses and also does equipment loans and leases. In two years there, I've had two pretty distinct roles. My first year or so was spent working with underwriters, who are normally VP level. Once a salesperson brought a deal in, we would create a credit write-up talking about the business, the collateral, and financial performance. It involves looking at trends, picking out and mitigating risks, assessing management, etc. I was hired mainly because of my writing ability (hadn't quite finished the master's at the time, but that helped, too), and I imagine strong writing skills will be key even if this is a completely different type of lending. As I gained more experience, I was trusted with more of the responsibilities, but there was always an underwriter to at least review what I was doing.
For the last year, I've had the title of senior financial analyst and have mainly done field exams for existing clients. On our higher level product, we don't have as much visibility of the collateral (A/R and maybe inventory) day-to-day, so a field exam is done once a year or as needed. I landed in that role since it involves a lot of travel and I'm pretty much the only educated single person at the bank (Mormons like to get married young). With that, I'm usually the only person from the bank on-site, so I've had about a dozen CFO's subject to my every whim (bwahaha) since they want to keep getting money from us. There's a PR aspect to it as well that I've enjoyed and has helped me crack out of my shell a bit more. The exposure to upper-level management has been really valuable, I think, as have all the rewards points.
That about sums it up. It's been a good job, but I'll probably be leaving soon for various reasons mostly unrelated to the work itself. If banking interests you, it's a great way to get some cross-functional exposure, which could make you pretty valuable down the road. If you have a job description or something, I could maybe tell you more or tell you if it's completely unrelated to what I do. Good luck!
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