KeyBank

Commercial Transaction Manager

KeyBank
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeUnited StatesSeniorLead💰 $96,000 - $181,000 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in complex transaction structuring, legal documentation negotiation, and risk management within the equipment finance sector. Capable of leading multi-party financing arrangements and collaborating effectively across various stakeholders to ensure successful transaction execution.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Complex Transaction StructuringLegal Documentation NegotiationRisk Management PracticesEquipment Finance ExpertiseSyndicated Transactions

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Serve as the lead transaction manager for KEF's most complex, highly structured, and strategically significant transactions
  • Independently manage and execute multi-party financing structures, syndications, synthetic real estate transactions, structured finance facilities, and other non-standard financing arrangements
  • Lead negotiations of complex financing documentation with customers, external counsel, participant institutions, investors, and other stakeholders
  • Partner with Sales, Capital Markets, Credit, Legal, Asset Management, Pricing, Tax, and other stakeholders to develop and implement transaction structures
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for documentation issues, transaction structuring questions, and complex negotiations
  • Identify documentation, structure, operational, collateral, compliance, and execution risks and develop mitigation solutions
  • Review, analyze, and negotiate legal documentation while balancing commercial objectives, risk management, and client requirements
  • Provide consultation and guidance to Contract Managers and Account Managers
  • Participate in opportunity-phase transaction structuring discussions and recommend documentation, feasibility, risk, and execution strategies
  • Develop negotiation best practices, documentation guidance, standard positions, and transaction playbooks
  • Act as a trusted advisor to Sales and Capital Markets personnel
  • Exercise delegated documentation and funding authority within Schedule of Authority guidelines
  • Facilitate communication to ensure timely execution and funding of complex transactions
  • Participate in training and development activities for TCM personnel
  • Lead or participate in strategic projects involving transaction documentation, execution processes, and complex financing initiatives
  • Represent TCM as a subject matter expert in internal working groups, business initiatives, and special projects
  • Maintain advanced knowledge of equipment finance products, capital markets structures, legal documentation developments, regulatory requirements, and market practices
  • Perform other duties, special projects, and reports as assigned

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Legal Studies, or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum 10 years of equipment finance, commercial finance, banking, structured finance, legal documentation, or related industry experience
  • Expertise in complex transaction structuring, documentation negotiation, and transaction execution
  • Extensive experience negotiating legal documentation with customers, external counsel, financial institutions, and other counterparties
  • Strong understanding of equipment finance products, syndications, structured finance transactions, collateral perfection, documentation practices, and risk management principles
  • Ability to independently manage highly complex transactions involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and negotiation skills
  • Ability to influence and lead across organizations without direct management authority
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and highly dynamic environment
  • Preferred: Juris Doctor (JD) degree
  • Preferred experience with complex commercial finance or equipment finance documentation
  • Preferred experience with syndicated transactions, multi-investor structures, synthetic real estate transactions, or capital markets transactions
  • Preferred experience working directly with external legal counsel and third-party financing institutions
  • Advanced knowledge of equipment finance legal documentation and transaction structuring
  • Strong oral and written skills
  • Active listening
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Ability to synthesize information quickly and efficiently
  • Detail orientation
  • Strong time management skills and ability to work independently
  • Equipment finance expertise
  • Risk management practices
  • KEF/KGF ExpressLink
  • Ability to process funding events and identify red flags or escalate issues appropriately

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Eligibility for incentive compensation, which may include production, commission, and/or discretionary incentives
  • In-office presence prioritized, with flexible options where roles can be performed effectively in a mobile environment

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Hard Skills
Transaction ExecutionDocumentation PracticesCollateral PerfectionStructured FinanceFinancial AnalysisNegotiation StrategiesCompliance Risk AssessmentFunding Event ProcessingAnalytical Problem-SolvingMulti-Party Financing Structures
Soft Skills
Strong Communication SkillsInterpersonal SkillsDetail OrientationTime ManagementActive Listening
Tools & Technologies
KEF/KGF ExpressLink
Certifications & Qualifications
Juris Doctor (JD)
Industry Keywords
Equipment FinanceCommercial FinanceBankingStructured FinanceSyndicationsSynthetic Real Estate TransactionsCapital MarketsLegal StudiesDocumentation GuidanceTransaction Playbooks