Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. USAA is a financial services company dedicated to empowering its members to achieve financial security. The MSR Asset Management Analyst Senior will manage the valuation of Mortgage Servicing Rights and support hedging activities, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and facilitating transaction management.
Responsibilities
- Independently perform analysis and modeling of MSR cash flows, prepayment rates, and interest rate scenarios; may adjust assumptions to maintain fair value with changing market conditions
- Manage the valuation of new MSR volume (through both originations and acquisitions), MSR capitalization pricing grids and the existing MSR asset
- Synthesize analyses, identifies root cause, communicates findings, and recommends solutions
- Develop, design, and validate models and assumptions for MSR valuation for market comparison and ensures daily / weekly / monthly / quarterly MSR asset and hedge valuations are distributed and leveraged
- Serve in an advisory capacity to Mortgage Capital Markets leadership to deliver analysis, assumptions, and position attribution
- Produce intuitive and insightful presentations for leaders, committee meetings, and other governance forums
- Assemble key participants and guides and facilitates teams in the development and implementation of key initiatives to continually enhance analytical and operational infrastructure relating to the MSR valuation, risk metrics, and reporting
- Assist with end-to-end processes and executes strategic initiatives including the sale and/or purchase of MSRs
- Partner with third party vendors to support the MSR asset as needed
- Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or Mathematics; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree
- 5 years of experience in capital markets, finance, pricing, financial services, banking, or mortgage
- 2 years of experience in one or more of the following: mortgage capital markets, MSR asset management, transaction management, interest rate risk management and hedging or similar role in mortgage banking, investment banking, or a capital market environment
- 4 years of quantitative, statistical, or financial analysis experience. Experience with data and cash flow modeling
- Advanced knowledge of federal mortgage lending regulations and compliance and how they are applied within the business, its products and processes
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of financial markets, Interest Rate/Price risks, and Secondary Mortgage Markets
- Advanced knowledge of MSR valuation principles, the use of models to arrive at valuation, and risk metrics
- Advanced understanding of the assumptions underlying MSR value, risks, and cash flows
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Life insurance
- Parental benefits
- Adoption assistance
- Paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
- Various wellness programs
- Career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals
- Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors
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