Forensic Underwriting Team Lead
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Forensic Underwriting Team Lead leading mortgage forensic underwriting operations. Supporting investor conditions, rebuttals, compliance, and loan purchase reviews across the United States.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of Forensic Underwriters and oversee day-to-day team operations
- Support resolution of post-closing conditions on Bond, Agency, and Non-Agency loans during purchase review
- Provide guidance, answer loan-level inquiries, and manage escalations
- Address escalated investor rebuttals and guide formal written responses
- Direct complex deficiency correction
- Manage team tasks, assignments, and workload balancing
- Provide employee development and performance coaching
- Assist with onboarding and training
- Monitor performance metrics and report documentation accuracy, timeliness, and compliance to management
- Suggest process improvements to increase efficiency, accuracy, and compliance
- Review production and processes to identify trends for the Forensic Underwriting Manager
- Monitor department reports, due dates, aged loans, and investor turn times
- Clarify acceptable defect cures with investors
- Monitor the loan pipeline and provide status updates to the Forensic Underwriting Manager
- Ensure the team meets monthly goals
- Review rebuttal denials and work with the Forensic Underwriting Manager on resolution options
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- 2+ years of experience in a Team Lead or senior role
- Experience in addressing investor conditions and exceptions
- Experience working in Encompass, preferred
- Knowledge of regulatory rules and regulations
- Understanding of Agency, Non-Agency, Bond, and Non-QM guidelines
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills to determine solutions and identify alternative resolutions within acceptable guidelines
- Skilled at prioritizing completing multiple tasks within a given period
- Skilled at independently making decisions
- Excellent customer service skills with internal employees and external vendors
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation plan
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Company-provided short-term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Wellness program
- Robust benefits package
- Equal employment opportunity and diversity and inclusion culture
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