Financial Engineer

Job Title: Financial Engineer Location: CA - Westlake Village What you'll do: As a Financial Engineer, you’ll be part of the Capital Market's Analytics team that focuses on building, maintaining, and enhancing advanced models and analytics tools to support Secondary Marketing MSR position. You and your team will work closely with the firm’s trading desk and hedging team, and you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining the firm’s core financial models and providing data analytical support for trading and hedging. Create, maintain and deliver quantitative processes including data mining, predictive modeling, and other complex data processing. Design, develop, and maintain scalable data platforms, databases, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data integration processes to support Capital Markets Analytics, MSR, Early Buyout (EBO), and Servicing business functions. Maintain, enhance existing financial models including prepayment, mortgage rate, delinquency, etc. and develop new models/algorithms when needed. Create, maintain, deliver monthly and quarterly analytical reports including valuation, risk, stress testing and model update. Identify and implement automation opportunities to enhance scalability, accuracy, and efficiency What you'll need: 1+ years of related experience. Bachelor's degree in related field required; Masters or MBA in related field preferred. Entry level knowledge of residential mortgage industry in Correspondent or Retail Lending including; sales, operations, capital markets and/or other residential mortgage products and services. Entry level knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices. Intermediate to advanced experience with C#, SQL Server, Excel and Excel VBA, PowerBI. Intermediate to advanced experience with statistical analysis, including the use of tools like R or Python. Intermediate speaking and writing communication skills. Compensation: Salary range for new hires is generally $107,395.00 - $132,661.00 for Westlake Village, CA. Salary amount is determined by specific job location. In addition, the role may be eligible for annual bonus/incentives earned. 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, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage. 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 View email address on click.appcast.io or call View phone number on click.appcast.io. 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. © Western Alliance Bancorporation