Small Business Support Specialist 2 - Tempe, AZ

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. Job Description The Small Business Support Specialist is responsible for providing high-quality client service, operational execution, and lending support to Small Business Relationship Managers NMLS and their assigned small business portfolios. The role supports clients with annual revenues generally between $500K and $2.5 million, typically not exceeding $5 million, by helping coordinate account servicing, loan administration, documentation, onboarding, renewal support, and issue resolution. This position enables Small Business Relationship Managers to spend more time on proactive relationship management, client deepening, prospecting, and portfolio growth while ensuring consistent, timely, and compliant client experience. The role combines the client service, operational, risk, and procedural discipline with selected portfolio and credit support responsibilities commonly performed in partnership with relationship managers. While not intended to own relationship sales goals or serve as the primary banker, the Small Business Support Specialist plays a critical role in supporting lending execution, maintaining portfolio discipline, coordinating across internal partners, and identifying opportunities or concerns that should be elevated to the Small Business Relationship Manager. What you’ll do • Provide centralized client service and operational support for Small Business Relationship Managers and their assigned small business portfolios. • Support loan intake, documentation collection, account opening, client onboarding, renewals, exceptions, ticklers, covenants, collateral reporting, and other portfolio follow-up activities. • Coordinate with underwriting, portfolio management, loan operations, title companies, outside counsel, product partners, branch partners, and other internal teams to advance client requests and clear outstanding conditions. • Research and help resolve client servicing needs, including loan maintenance, overdrafts, payoffs, payments, account maintenance, wire transfer support, and documentation follow-up. • Maintain accurate and timely information in applicable systems, including Salesforce, Fusion, nCino, Hogan, AFS, WebKYC, and other department-specific tools. • Support account opening, product implementation, and onboarding activities for deposits, credit cards, digital access, treasury management referrals, cash management support, and other core small business banking solutions. • Recognize client needs, documentation gaps, operational risks, or relationship deepening opportunities and elevate them to the appropriate Small Business Relationship Manager or partner. • Provide timely, professional communication with clients and internal partners to support product installation, documentation completion, issue resolution, and client satisfaction. • Participate in client calls, portfolio reviews, pipeline meetings, exception meetings, audit preparation, and operational huddles as needed to support execution discipline and consistent client outcomes. • Contribute to procedural documentation, best-practice sharing, onboarding, training, and team effectiveness within the centralized Small Business Support team. Role expectations and requirements • This role is bas