Fernando Rizzo

Director at First Citizens Bank

Greater Chicago Area

About

Financial services professional with extensive experience in underwriting, portfolio and risk management, including leading teams underwriting middle market, sponsor and leveraged lending, vendor financing, and workout restructuring transactions with domestic and international institutions. Approvals authority and account management. Six Sigma trained and tested. Focused on developing solutions that can translate into actual structures and business results to protect the invested assets and meet customers’ needs. Proven ability to shape and lead the credit process through a changing business environment. Specialties: Cash flow lending, sponsors finance, middle market, workouts, portfolio and risk management, underwriting, trade finance, factoring, inventory financing, floorplan, management, documentation.

Experience

  • Director - Team Leader - CIT Legacy at First Citizens Bank
    May 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

  • Vice President - Credit Manager -Team Leader at Northern Trust Corporation
    May 2016 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs

  • Adjunct Professor of Economics at Prairie State College
    Jan 2012 - May 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Financial Services at Self Employed - Equities & Options Trading for Own Account
    Oct 2008 - May 2016 · 7 yrs 8 mos

  • Senior Risk Manager - SVP - Corporate Risk Management at GE Capital
    Jul 2003 - Jul 2008 · 5 yrs 1 mo