Post Closing Specialist II

At Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., our continued growth and success means new career
opportunities for you.

Our Simi Valley employees enjoy:
Business Casual Attire
Modern Facilities
Fitness Center
Countrywide Bank
Full Service Cafeteria
ATM

Our Full-Time Employees also receive these benefits:
Stock Purchase Plan
9 Company Paid Holidays
401(k) - all employees of Countrywide are immediately eligible to participate
Vision/Medical/Dental Coverage
Life & Disability Coverage
Tuition Assistance
Employee Discounts on Home Mortgage Products
and Insurance

Post Closing Specialist II

Responsibilities:
- Works closely with assigned branches to resolve loan deficiencies.
- Reviews casebinders/guaranty packages and audits results/checksheets received.
- Notifies branches of missing or incorrect (deficient) items.
- Reviews clearing documents from branches and determines if items coincide with requirements/guidelines.
- Clears deficiencies from the AS400 system as appropriate and updates comments in servicing activity screens.
- Prepares casebinder/guaranty packages for submission.
- Ensures that outstanding deficiencies are removed within 24 hours of receipt of acceptable clearance documentation.
- Reviews the outstanding aged deficiency report on a weekly basis.
- Works with management to track and analyze deficiencies for accuracy and trend analysis.
- Completes a Weekly Branch and Missing MIC/LGC Report Summary.
- Follows up on agency-suspended loans.
- Remains current on all FHA/VA guidelines.
- Resolves complex or unusual loan deficiencies.
- Resolves any customer service issues that may arise.
- Serves as a resource for the Supervisor/Post Closing Unit in developing tools to assist regional managers.
- Researches complex or unfamiliar types of deficiencies.
- Reviews and validates loan deficiencies recorded by lower level workers.

Requirements:
- 3+ years working with closing documents, funding, or the processing of mortgage documents.
- 3 years of related office experience in a mortgage, title, real estate or mortgage banking industry.
- Strong post-closing knowledge.
- Excellent research, customer service, negotiation, presentation and communication skills.
- Intermediate experience with standard business software, sufficient to create simple charts, graphs and tables and to conduct Internet research.
- The ability to handle a high volume of work with short deadlines.
- Exceptional teamwork, organizational and analytical abilities.
- Detail and deadline orientation.
- PC proficiency in Windows 95, Word, Excel and Lotus Notes.




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