Investor Accountant l - Remote

Overview

This role ensures timely and accurate reporting, remitting, and reconciliation to various mortgage investors.

Employment Type: Full time (Non-Exempt)
Hours: 37.5 hours/week; overtime as required
Location: Lake Zurich, IL, US
Department: Investor Accounting

Responsibilities

• Generate required monthly accounting reports for assigned investors, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with investor guidelines.
• Prepare reports and remit funds associated with monthly loan activity, payoffs, short sales, and other events according to investor guidelines and contractual due dates.
• Transfer new loan sales before cutoffs at the correct UPB, service fee, and investor loan number.
• Complete research to resolve and clear complex exceptions.
• Ensure complex bank account and cash reconciliations are completed timely and accurately and are cleared of exceptions.
• Reconcile actual activity to reported activity, research variances, resolve issues, and document all variances in the Investor Reporting application.
• For Scheduled/Scheduled investors, ensure loan/pool level security balances and test of expected P&I and cashbook reports are properly maintained; for Scheduled/Actual investors, ensure test of expected P&I and cashbook reports are properly maintained.
• Respond to high-profile client and investor inquiries quickly and appropriately.
• Identify potential risks, communicate them to management, take appropriate steps to mitigate risk, and identify solutions to avoid future issues.
• Comply with the Code of Conduct and complete regulatory training requirements, including annual regulatory compliance training.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Excellent math skills.
• Solid PC skills, including proficiency with Microsoft applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and attention to detail/accuracy.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact positively and professionally with all levels of internal and external audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of CPI/Alltel/Fidelity/LPS Mortgage Servicing Package.

Compensation & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, wellness, flexible spending account, and employee assistance program, and more.
• Employer-paid life insurance, short term disability, and long-term disability.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Paid vacation, sick, personal, and holidays.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

• Comfortable working in an on-site office setting or a quiet, designated work from home space free from distractions and noise.
• Regularly communicate (give/receive) information through multiple methods of communication with clear understanding from others.
• Ability to remain in a stationary position and/or move about the organization or remote office.
• Frequently required to stand or walk, sit, and use hands to type, write, handle, or feel and reach.
• May occasionally climb or balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch; or lift and/or move up to 25 lbs.
• May be required to type and utilize a computer for long periods of time.
• May be required to operate office equipment, including computers, calculators, copy machines, computer printers, and phones.
• On-site noise level is usually moderate and typical of an office environment.
• Reasonable accommodations are available in accordance with applicable disability laws to enable qualified employees with a disability to perform essential functions of the job.