POSITION TITLE: Senior Manager, Strategic Finance
Position Summary:
The Senior Manager, Strategic Finance will support enterprise-wide modeling and analytics initiatives. This position will be focused on developing and ensuring alignment of all models and analytics with direct financial impact on the organization. This position is expected to have deep financial modeling experience, robust analytics skills, thorough proficiency in related technology, and solid knowledge of the mortgage business. This role will partner with teams outside of Finance that maintain responsibility for development and maintenance of analytics and models affecting their business unit or department. This position will report directly to the Vice President of Strategic Finance.
Job Functions and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily
Inspect & Analyze
- Perform ad-hoc analysis for internal and external stakeholders such as the impact of strategic transactions
- Validate source data and results to ensure data and metric accuracy
Work with cross section of leadership and team members throughout the organization to develop financial models and analytics
Explain & Communicate
- Leverage deep understanding of business and financial data coupled with analytics to identify issues and provide actionable recommendations to senior management
- Synthesize information for a broader audience using reports and presentations
- Provide highest level of internal and external customer service
Understand & Evaluate
- Write and optimize complex SQL queries and stored procedures to extract and combine data
- Identify and implement process improvements and efficiencies
- Work with Finance senior leadership to support the financial data strategy for Finance including the centralization of key metrics and model results that financially impact the organization
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must have the following education and/or experience:
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience working with financial data and building financial models
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, or Technology or equivalent experience required. Advanced degree preferred
- Minimum of 5 years of experience preferred with experience in both Originations and Servicing a bonus
- Advanced level Excel and SQL development and hands on experience in model building in Excel and SQL
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work in a fast-paced environment
- Self-motivated; ability to independently analyze, lead, and present with very limited guidance
- Work independently and in a team environment, especially across locations and time zones, in execution of projects and identification/resolution of deficiencies or opportunities for improvement
- Partner with all levels of management across various time zones to ensure effective implementation of time-sensitive initiatives and identify deficiencies and opportunities for improvement
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to analyze, distill, and present complex information concisely with clarity
- Competencies in problem solving, decision making, creativity, and organizational skills while showing good judgment and execution within a fast-paced environment
Training / Licensing Requirements:
- Must pass the Company’s Background Screening process prior to beginning employment. Additionally, as a condition of employment, you may be required to pass client-specific background check requirements or Federal/State licensing requirements, if applicable.
The salary range for this position is expected to be $135,000 – $155,000 per year, depending on geographic location, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for bonus based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company’s applicable plans.
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