Capital Markets Operations Analyst

What You'll Do

The Capital Markets Operations Analyst owns key post trade processes supporting mortgage backed securities (MBS), whole loan sales, and related hedging activity. This role is critical to ensuring accurate trade capture, pooling, settlement, and reconciliation while maintaining strong internal controls and regulatory compliance.

Capital Markets Operations Analyst

CA - Westlake Village

The Capital Markets Operations Analyst owns key post trade processes supporting mortgage backed securities (MBS), whole loan sales, and related hedging activity. This role is critical to ensuring accurate trade capture, pooling, settlement, and reconciliation while maintaining strong internal controls and regulatory compliance.

The analyst partners closely with Traders, Financial Engineering, Accounting, agency counterparts, dealer counter parties, and custodians to ensure timely and accurate execution across the full trade lifecycle, including the creation and delivery of GNMA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac securities.

This role offers hands on exposure to securitization, agency execution, and capital markets risk within a large, bank owned mortgage platform.

• Aggregate and pool eligible loans into GNMA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac securities in accordance with agency guidelines
• Own post‑trade processing for MBS, mortgage‑related derivatives (including TBAs, futures, and swaps), and whole loan transactions, including trade capture validation, position management, settlement, and reconciliation
• Prepare, validate, and submit pool and delivery data to agencies and custodians
• Maintain accurate loan and security position records and investigate data breaks, settlement fails, and other operational discrepancies across the trade lifecycle
• Ensure compliance with SOX controls, documentation standards, and internal audit requirements
• Partner with internal teams to resolve exceptions and improve operational processes
• Support securitization data preparation by monitoring data quality, completeness, and lineage
• Support margin/collateral processes as needed, including coordinating with counter parties and internal teams

• 3+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Entry level knowledge of residential mortgage industry in Correspondent or Retail Lending, including sales, operations, capital markets and/or other residential mortgage products and services.
• Entry level knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• SQL experience preferred.
• Intermediate speaking and writing communication skills.

Compensation:
Salary range for new hires is generally $ - $ for Westlake Village, CA. Salary amount is determined by specific job location. In addition, the role may be eligible for annual bonus/incentives earned.

We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands‑on experience to help grow your career!

Ameri Home Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company. Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and…