Risk Analyst

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🌾 Iowa, North Carolina, +1 more states – Remote

🌾 Iowa – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote

💵 $64.3k - $85.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎲 Risk

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First American

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1889

🏠 Real Estate

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Real Estate • Finance • Enterprise

First American is a historical company that has been operating since 1889, evolving into a $9 billion organization with over 20,000 employees and more than 700 offices worldwide. The company provides a range of products and services that assist homebuyers, sellers, businesses, and investors in the real estate market. With a strong focus on employee engagement and culture, First American emphasizes innovation, technology, and community involvement, driving transformation within the real estate industry.

📋 Description

• Reviews, analyzes, and reports on risk, quality, service, and controls to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness, mitigate risk and remediate operational and regulatory vulnerabilities. • Conducts risk assessments to ensure compliance with federal and state regulatory requirements, industry standards, and operating procedures. • Develops standard risk assessment scopes and conducts re-scoping of established reviews to ensure validity. • Performs analyses to determine the root cause of process gaps. • Monitors corrective action target dates to ensure prompt remediation and control implementation to comply with regulatory requirements. • Analyzes, defines and documents detailed process workflows through user interviews, facilitated workshops and subject matter expert engagement. • Design and execute risk assessments. • Creates a clear understanding of the core accountabilities within the process. • Ensures the focus of activity is concentrated on the highest priority needs of the business. • Organizes the research for and development of specialized risk assessment scopes. • Collaborates with management and personnel to optimize risk assessment and scope development. • Identifies potential business risks, operational and regulatory process deficiencies, and improvement opportunities. • Gathers and synthesizes data; presents conclusions and offers risk mitigation, remediation, and process improvement solutions to management. • Makes recommendations for additional controls and corrective action to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and risk mitigation processes. • Assists in preparing and presenting to management and/or affected business unit(s) on summaries, operational and regulatory risk assessment reports, trends, and remedial or mitigation solutions. • Gathers information and provides fact-based findings and recommendations. • Escalates issues identified during review and analysis to stakeholders. • Establishes a network of subject matter experts that provide the detail and context for existing processes, and/or stakeholders that may influence others to help support or drive improvements and to mitigate risks.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting or Finance • 4-7 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry, preferably in a Mortgage Loan Servicing environment • Mortgage servicing or mortgage lending experience preferred • Working knowledge of operational and regulatory risk controls, concepts, and practices • Ability to plan, organize and effectively execute risk mitigation and process improvement initiatives • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships within and between departments • Strong client service skills • Strong organizational and analytical skills • Attention to detail • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Strong interpersonal skills • Self-motivated; self-starter • Ability to manage multiple tasks and respond quickly to emergent problems • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

🏖️ Benefits

• By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! • Our People First culture is inclusive for all employees - not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the key to our success. • We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. • First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term. • Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.