Full Job Description
As a Mortgage Servicing Rights (MSR) Executive Director in our Home Lending (HL) Risk team, you will be responsible for developing and executing a risk management discipline where risk and return considerations are appropriately factored into decision making. You will also oversee independent risk, manage and approve new or existing extensions of credit and review counterparty risk arising from potential investment activities. Additionally, you will also be responsible for analysis of credit opportunities, supporting the structuring of transactions, identifying risks, conducting due diligence, exerting credit approval authority and monitoring performance.
Job Responsibilities include:
• Oversee bulk MSR acquisitions, sales and other servicing portfolio related initiatives
• Manage MSR acquisition pool selection through evaluation of loan level deal tape stratification, credit box analysis, and assessment of concentration risk
• Track and react to performance monitoring for MSR purchases, sales, sub-servicing and flows both at an individual transaction and aggregate program level, providing visibility into expected vs actual performance (prepayment, delinquency etc.)
• Partner with analytics and loss-forecasting teams to identify potential portfolio sale opportunities and to evaluate risk-return tradeoffs for potential portfolio sale transaction
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of experience in Risk Management, Capital Markets or related oversight functions in the financial services industry
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Strong, clear, and concise written and verbal communication with ability to edit and prepare executive level communications.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills; able to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong partnerships.
• Intellectual curiosity with a proven ability to learn quickly
• High degree of initiative, self-direction, and ability to work well under pressure
• Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills, critical thinking, investigative problem-solving and balanced decision making
• Adept at interfacing with analytics, credit policy and loss forecasting subject matter experts to drive risk assessments. The individual must be comfortable working in a matrixed environment
• Knowledge of programming languages such as SQL, Python, SAS
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
• Experience in market risk and valuation for fixed income products
• Prior experience in mortgage underwriting, MSR acquisitions, or bank servicing portfolio management
