CCM
Strategic Underwriting Specialist
Remote USA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 22 days ago
HRISCommunicationTime ManagementUnderwriting
About the role
- The Strategic Underwriting Specialist is a highly experienced underwriting professional who serves as a flexible resource across multiple underwriting teams.
- This individual plays a critical role in maintaining operational continuity by covering pipelines during staff absences, absorbing overflow volume, and ensuring files are accurately updated as they move through the post-closing process.
Responsibilities
- Maintain clear, timely communication with VP of Underwriting, team managers, and support staff regarding pipeline status and priority items.
- Maintain availability during standard business hours with flexibility for peak production periods and occasional overtime.
- You'll get unwavering support from all departments and total transparency from the top down.
Requirements
- The Strategic Underwriting Specialist operates with a high degree of independence and professionalism, seamlessly integrating into any team while maintaining the highest standards of quality and compliance.
- Experience in a floater, lead underwriter, or senior underwriter capacity, preferred.
Skills
- 5+ years of front-line mortgage underwriting experience across all agency product types.
- Active DE (Direct Endorsement), SAR (Staff Appraisal Reviewer), and LAPP (Lender Appraisal Processing Program) certifications.
- Experience with Encompass LOS, preferred.
- Experience working in a high-volume, dynamic production environment, preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of agency guidelines, AUS findings (DU/LP), and investor overlays.
- Demonstrated proficiency in underwriting Conventional, FHA, USDA, and VA loan products.
- Familiarity with Workday HR/time management platform, preferred.
- Skilled in managing multiple pipelines simultaneously across different teams and priorities.
- Excellent attention to detail with a record of delivering accurate, high-quality underwriting decisions.
- Excellent communication skills; independently effective in a remote environment.
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- CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC strives to provide employees with a robust
Compensation
- CCM offers eligible employees a competitive compensation plan and a robust benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, as well as a 401K.
Benefits
- At our core, our entrepreneurial spirit empowers every employee to be who they are to help us move forward together.
- CCM offers eligible employees a competitive compensation plan and a robust benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, as well as a 401K.
- We also offer company-provided short-term disability, an employee assistance program, and a wellness program.
- Cover underwriter pipelines during planned and unplanned absences, including vacation, leave, and other time-off scenarios.
- Work remotely with a reliable internet connection and maintain a professional home office environment.
Company info
- Please see CrossCountry's privacy statement for information about how CrossCountry collects and uses personal information about California applicants.
- CrossCountry Mortgage supports equal employment opportunity in hiring, development and advancement for all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, ancestry, marital status, uniformed service, covered veteran status, citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, and lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, domestic violence victim status (where applicable), protected hair style or texture, genetic information (testing or characteristics), or any other protected status of an individual or because of the individual's association with a member of a protected group or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law ("Protected Characteristics").
- The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation.
- The Company is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture that welcomes diversity and inclusion.
- CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC (NMLS3029) is an FHA Approved Lending Institution and is not acting on behalf of or at the direction of HUD/FHA or the Federal government.
- To verify licensing, please visit www.NMLSConsumerAccess.org.
Visa & Work Authorization
- tional origin, age, physical or mental disability, ancestry, marital status, uniformed service, covered veteran status, citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, and lactat
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