Pricing & Margin Management Analyst

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Posted Nov 2, 2026

Remote · US Full Time
$97K – $125K/yr

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