Overview:
Are you looking to take your career from good to great? As an employee of PenFed, every day is an opportunity to thrive, and be part of a team working to ensure our organization is providing world class service to our members, employees, and our communities. We exist to help our members realize their full potential, educate and encourage their dreams, and make every effort to follow our mission and help our members "do better." Joining PenFed is more than being an employee; it's about being a part of the PenFed family.
PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Senior Manager, Home Lending Fraud Operations at our San Antonio, Texas service center. The primary purpose of this job is to be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and oversight strategies to detect, prevent, and mitigate mortgage and servicing fraud schemes within our organization. This role involves leading fraud-related projects and technology implementations specifically targeted at real estate mortgage fraud, driving mitigation strategies through proactive risk to reduce overall mortgage and servicing risk tied to fraud and overseeing mortgage fraud operations employees. The manager will establish our fraud prevention strategy, coordinate projects, perform detailed fraud analysis, define and document real estate fraud processes, monitor and oversee fraud detection and drive improvements to enhance the effectiveness of fraud prevention efforts.
Responsibilities:
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties, and the position will perform other duties as assigned.
* Evaluate business processes, analyze and anticipate business requirements, develop and implement solutions.
* Serve as a fraud liaison between stakeholders such as enterprise fraud and mortgage/servicing leadership.
* Develop and manage the mortgage fraud prevention strategy.
* Manage competing resources and priorities related to mortgage fraud initiatives.
* Monitor for emerging risks with processes, systems and policies.
* Lead communications with other business teams to ensure consistent and accurate reporting of mortgage fraud trends, incidents and action plans.
* Evaluate mortgage and servicing fraud processes and controls and develop and implement solutions to prevent fraud.
* Gather critical information from meetings and share across stakeholders all fraud activity to include enterprise fraud and key executives.
* Monitor and track the effectiveness of fraud detection tools and applications.
* Develop and oversee fraud risk and control self-assessment (RCSA).
* Coordinate and track fraud issues management, responses, and resolution.
* Analyze loan data, market trends and other relevant information to identify potential fraud schemes.
* Utilize data analytics tools to detect anomalies and patterns indicative of mortgage fraud.
* Collaborate with internal partners to share information and best practices for mortgage fraud prevention.
* Manage fraud operations employees as well as their growth and development while also providing mentorship and training.
* Ensure decision effectiveness through fraud strategy performance evaluation and detection metrics.
* Stay up to date on the latest process and IT fraud advancements to automate and modernize systems.
Qualifications:
Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
* Bachelor's Degree in related field is required.
* A minimum of ten (10) years' experience in business analysis or a related field.
* A minimum of 2 (two) years' experience in people management.
* Mortgage Lending experience preferred.
* Experience in banking or credit union operations that includes in-depth knowledge of products, services, systems, operational policies and procedures, and regulatory compliance issues is strongly preferred.
* Experience working with large datasets and knowledge of various data analysis software packages and tools (e.g., MS-Excel, SQL, SAS, or ACL) is required.
* Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to effectively interact and build trusted relationships across different departments and all levels of management.
* The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
* Advanced technical skills.
* Excellent documentation skills.
* Experience leading people in projects.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to effectively resolve complex situations and issues.
* Must be results oriented with the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
* Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills with the ability to manage or support multiple projects effectively.
* Direct experience using large data to make effective, analytically driven decisions.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position will supervise employees.
Licenses and Certifications
There are no additional certifications required.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.
*Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*
Travel
The ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call may be required.
Share this job:
Share this Job