Senior Financial Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Financial Engineer

Location:

CA - Westlake Village

What you'll do:

As a Senior 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 Pricing, P&L attribution and forecasting. You and your team will work closely with the firm’s trading desk, and you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining the firm’s core system used for Pricing, P&L attribution and forecasting and interacting with upstream models.

• Maintain and develop the profit and loss attribution system by utilizing and interacting with the pricing model's complex quantitative software to manage the pipeline and servicing positions, risk analyses to evaluate, hedge strategies and market changes.
• Create, maintain and deliver quantitative processes including data mining, predictive modeling, and other complex data processing.

• Design, develop and maintain tools for and perform analyses for the firm’s trading desks to support bidding, hedging, and pooling and other analyses 
• Create, maintain, and deliver monthly and quarterly analytical reports.

What you'll need:

• 3+ years of related experience in Complex Financial Modeling & Model Mgmt. or similar field.
• Masters or MBA in related field required.
• 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.

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 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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