Innovation Leadership Program (iLead) - Westlake Village, CA - Capital Markets

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What you'll do:

The Rotations for Capital Markets are:

Rotation 1: P&L Attribution (Nexus): This team is responsible for developing and maintaining profit and loss attribution for secondary marketing pipeline and mortgage servicing rights assets.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing daily transactions and valuations flowing through the system and checking the completeness and accuracy
• Developing and adding modules to the system to proceed new transactions/valuations.
• Forecasting the P&L to be flowed within the month and calibrating the forecast as needed.
• Maintaining and enhancing secondary market attribution tool to analyze pipe loan hedge position and report unexpected mis-hedging is noticed.
• Reporting the daily performance to company's management and Western Alliance management

Rotation 2: Mortgage Servicing Rights Analytics (PolyPaths): This team is responsible for building and maintaining the financial models, providing analytical support for trading, and hedging of Mortgage Servicing Rights (MSR).

Responsibilities include:

• Create, maintain, and deliver quantitative processes including data mining, predictive modeling and other complex data processing.
• Utilize complex quantitative software to manage the MSR/Early Buyout (EBO) portfolio and servicing positions, risk analysis, hedge strategies and market data.
• Maintain, enhance existing financial models including prepayment, mortgage rate, delinquency etc. and develop new models/algorithms when needed.

Rotation 3: Pipeline Analytics (Aspen):

This team is responsible for pricing, pooling, and valuation of residential mortgage loans that are eligible for purchase by AmeriHome and Western Alliance Bank.

Responsibilities include:

• Pricing of mandatory and best effort locks
• Optimizing loan allocations to maximize the revenue for the company.
• Producing valuation for the loans in the secondary marketing pipeline and inventory positions
• Develop new models, maintain/calibrate existing models involved in secondary marketing pipeline valuation.
• Develop tools used in automation, and back-office trade/pool life cycle management.

What you'll need:

• Master's degree in a related field completed in the last three years and before the start of the program
• Two to Five years of related experience in a solid Financial, Mathematics and Quantitative analysis role.
• History of acting as a change agent and taking calculated risks
• Fast learner with programming experience in C#, Sql and/or Python.
• Affinity to innovate, disrupt and improve.
• Demonstrated leadership and strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work both independently and on cross-functional teams.
• Comfortable with rapidly changing environment and reprioritization of tasks
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• CFA/FRM is a plus.

Benefits you'll love:

We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company. Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

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