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Champions Funding LLC

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51 - 200 employees

💸 Finance

🏠 Real Estate

Finance • Real Estate

Champions Funding LLC is a mission-based mortgage lender certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). The company specializes in Non-Qualified Mortgage (Non-QM) loans, providing innovative and inclusive financing solutions aimed at underserved and under-banked borrowers who often face challenges with traditional lenders. By employing modernized underwriting methods and offering a diverse range of loan programs, including ITIN loans for non-U. S. citizens, Champions Funding empowers mortgage brokers and loan originators to better serve their clients. With a focus on quick and efficient service, they aim to open the door to homeownership and real estate investment for diverse and historically excluded communities.

📋 Description

• Lead and oversee the company’s Quality Control and Internal Audit functions, ensuring effective execution of audit plans, quality reviews, and risk management initiatives. • Manage and develop a team of Quality Control professionals, including onshore and offshore resources, ensuring proper workload management, performance expectations, and operational efficiency. • Oversee Internal Audit operations, including coordination of onshore and offshore audit resources, to ensure comprehensive risk assessments and audit coverage. • Develop, administer, and maintain a multi-year rotational internal audit plan aligned with company strategy, priorities, and risk assessments. • Plan and execute operational, financial, compliance, and quality control audits using a risk-based methodology; define audit scope, test controls, and develop actionable recommendations to improve processes. • Ensure QC reviews, audit fieldwork, testing, and evidence gathering are thorough, accurate, and support audit conclusions. • Draft impactful audit reports, presenting findings, trends, and recommendations clearly and concisely to executive leadership and the Audit Committee. • Conduct remediation procedures to ensure identified QC and audit findings are addressed appropriately and completed on schedule. • Assist with regulatory compliance, and other investor, agency, and regulatory requirements. • Perform ad hoc investigations, special reviews, and quality assessments as requested by management or the Audit Committee. • Function as a liaison during regulatory examinations and coordinate with external auditors, investors, and third-party review teams as needed. • Provide strategic guidance to management on process improvements, internal controls, loan quality, and risk mitigation opportunities. • Evaluate and enhance internal controls, governance, QC processes, and operational procedures across Non-QM wholesale mortgage operations.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of auditing, quality control, compliance, or finance experience, including leadership experience within financial services, mortgage lending, or wholesale mortgage organizations; 10+ years preferred for VP level. • Strong understanding of Non-QM mortgage products, wholesale lending operations, Quality Control requirements, and regulatory expectations. • Proven experience managing QC and/or Internal Audit teams, including distributed onshore and offshore resources. • Experience conducting risk assessments, scoping audits, performing control testing, managing remediation, and presenting findings to executive leadership. • Familiarity with compliance, regulatory exams, and financial services regulations (e.g., TILA/TRID, RESPA, UDAAP, AML) preferred. • Exceptional leadership, communication, quantitative, qualitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.