Overview
The organization is seeking a Pricing & Margin Management Analyst to optimize pricing, profitability, and growth across its DSCR and non-QM lending business. This highly analytical role connects pricing, capital markets, sales, and finance.
Responsibilities
- Analyze market conditions and loan-level data to evaluate pricing performance and competitive intelligence.
- Determine where products are appropriately priced and where opportunities exist to improve volume and margin.
- Provide data-driven pricing recommendations, identify margin leakage, build reporting and financial models, and present insights to senior leadership.
Pricing & Market Analysis
- Monitor market factors influencing pricing, including Treasury and swap rates, SOFR, whole-loan buyer bids, securitization spreads, cost of funds, and warehouse carry.
- Analyze rate sheet pricing across LTV, DSCR, FICO, loan size, property type, cash-out, interest-only, prepayment penalty structure, and state.
- Recommend base rate and price-adjuster changes and quantify expected margin impact.
- Identify pricing opportunities where products may be priced above or below market.
Margin Management
- Maintain and analyze the company’s margin waterfall from rate sheet pricing through realized execution.
- Compare target and realized margins across products, channels, brokers, and account executives.
- Identify sources of margin leakage and recommend pricing, policy, or process improvements.
- Model potential margin and volume impact of proposed pricing strategies.
Pricing Analytics & Reporting
- Build and maintain pricing and margin dashboards for leadership using Power BI, Tableau, or Excel.
- Analyze lock volume, pull-through, and fallout by product, pricing tier, and channel.
- Conduct structured pricing analyses and tests to evaluate volume and margin response.
- Analyze and report broker and channel economics, including points, compensation, and volume mix.
Broker Pricing & Competitive Intelligence
- Partner with Sales and executive leadership to create and maintain broker pricing tiers based on measurable performance.
- Analyze broker performance using metrics such as pull-through, volume, cycle times, file quality, and loan performance.
- Monitor competitor DSCR and non-QM pricing and product offerings.
- Benchmark competitive position using win/loss data and broker feedback to explain volume changes.
Pricing Governance
- Produce monthly reporting on concessions, exceptions, pricing trends, and margin impact.
- Document pricing methodology and the rationale behind rate sheet changes.
- Support fair lending monitoring of discretionary pricing.
- Partner with the pricing engine administrator to specify and validate rate sheet changes before release.
FP&A Support
- Build and maintain financial models supporting budgets, forecasts, and scenario planning that connect pricing and volume assumptions to company financial performance.
- Support monthly close, budgeting, and forecasting through variance analysis.
- Analyze loan-level and financial data for ad hoc requests from Finance and executive leadership.
- Contribute to management reporting, board materials, and investor and warehouse lender reporting.
- Take on other FP&A projects and analysis as assigned based on business needs.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in mortgage pricing, secondary marketing, capital markets analytics, FP&A, or a similar quantitative role at a lender or investor.
- Working knowledge of non-QM and DSCR lending, including pricing adjustments, prepayment penalties, and how loan execution influences rate sheet pricing.
- Strong understanding of gain-on-sale, basis points, spreads, cost of funds, and margin waterfall.
- Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to build financial and analytical models.
- Experience using SQL or an equivalent tool to independently pull, shape, and analyze loan-level data.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex analysis into actionable recommendations.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present pricing recommendations and analytical findings to executive and sales leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with LoanPASS, Polly, Optimal Blue, or similar pricing technology.
- Experience developing dashboards in Power BI or Tableau.
- Experience using Python or R for data analysis.
- Exposure to whole-loan trading or non-QM securitization.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $97,000 - $125,000 (exempt level position)
Location
Remote role available in: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MI, NC, SC, TX, UT
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field