About the Company
Valon's mission is to empower every homeowner. We believe the journey of home ownership starts when you get your keys, but lasts far beyond. We're creating a world where home ownership comes with ease, security, and financial know-how. Our growing team of engineers, operators, product enthusiasts, and experienced servicing professionals are leveraging technology to fundamentally improve the homeownership experience. Through mortgage servicing—the process of paying off one's mortgage—Valon is taking the first step in transforming the industry one homeowner, and lender, at a time.
LRC at Valon
The LRC (Legal, Risk, and Compliance) organization at Valon is responsible for advising our company on the various legal, regulatory, and contractual provisions that impact the business. Our team members partner closely with our operations and technology teams to provide the applicable legal, compliance, and risk frameworks that help inform our business strategies. The LRC team is also responsible for managing and responding to regulatory, client, and investor audits and examinations. As a member of the LRC team, you will work closely with external examiners and internal clients across the company to coordinate, track, and respond accurately and timely to all regulatory, client, and investor examinations.
Senior Audit & Examination Manager
In this role, you will work with teams across the organization to manage and respond to regulatory, investor, and client audits and examinations. As a member of the LRC team, you will work closely with each business unit to ensure complete, accurate, timely, and compliant responses. We're looking for someone who has excellent project management abilities, deep mortgage domain knowledge, and experience working with both operations and external regulators and clients.
As we are a fast-growing startup, the right candidate thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, can take a self-directed, proactive approach to problem-solving, and is able to build and drive processes end-to-end. We're looking for someone who can both roll up their sleeves and work independently as well as partner cross-functionally across the company.
Responsibilities
- Intake audit and examination requests from regulators, investors, and clients
- Create and track project plans and timelines with responsible business units
- Monitor timelines and ensure that teams are meeting deadlines timely
- Review audit and examination responses received from the relevant business units to ensure accuracy and compliance
- Communicate with executive leadership team on examination response progress
- Interface with regulators, clients and investors regarding examination requests and any follow up inquiries
- Handle compliance-related examination and audit requests
- Work with the business to build a library of the most common and recurring audit and examination requests andexecute on these requests on a go-forward basis
- Establish and streamline audit and examination processes
- Work directly with the executive leadership team on findings, remediation plans, and responses for any flagged items
Ideal Background
- Previous experience managing and responding to examinations.
- Previous experience with mortgage servicer, regulator, or financial services company
- Previous experience working with insurance companies or insurance related products
- Experience creating and drafting policies, procedures and control documents.
- Experience creating project plans and tracking documents
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience in responding to regulatory examinations
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in Financial Services (Mortgage Servicing preferred)
Benefits
- Compensation; competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity and our performance bonus program
- Health & well-being; we'll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits, One medical membership, and Talkspace to provide mental health support
- Food & meal allowance; in-office snacks, drinks, Tuesday dinners, and $400 monthly stipend towards your lunches or groceries
- Grow together; learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback
- Equipment; we'll provide you with the equipment you need to be successful and a one-time $200 stipend for your initial desk setup
- Generous time off; paid time off, uncapped sick days, and 11 company holidays
- Baby bonding time!; 3 months off for birthing parents and 2 months off for non-birthing parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition
Throughout the interview process, please remember that emails will only be from valon.com emails. We won't ever be asking for any personally identifiable information during the interview process itself. Please reach out to talent@valon.com if you have any requests to verify the authenticity of an outreach.
Valon is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. Valon makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.