Mortgage Accounting Liaison

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The Mortgage Accounting Liaison serves as a critical bridge between the Mortgage Accounting, Mortgage Servicing, Mortgage Operations, Finance, Information Technology, Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, and other business partners to support accurate, timely, and well-controlled mortgage accounting processes. This position is responsible for coordinating issue resolution, gathering and validating operational support, tracking open items, assisting with process documentation, monitoring recurring exceptions, and helping ensure mortgage-related activity is appropriately communicated, supported, and resolved.

Reporting to the AVP Mortgage Accounting, this role supports the stabilization, standardization, and ongoing governance of mortgage accounting activities, including MSP-related transaction flows, general ledger mapping, clearing and suspense activity, escrow and investor activity, reconciliations, reporting, exception tracking, and cross-functional communication. The position requires strong organization, attention to detail, analytical ability, follow-through, and the ability to work collaboratively with business partners to promote accountability, transparency, and sustainable resolution of mortgage accounting issues.

• Serves as a primary day-to-day liaison between Mortgage Accounting and key business partners to support timely communication, issue intake, follow-up, and resolution of mortgage accounting matters. Coordinates with Mortgage Servicing, Mortgage Operations, Finance, Information Technology, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, external auditors, and other stakeholders to obtain information, clarify process questions, validate support, and assist with resolving items impacting accounting, reconciliations, reporting, or controls.
• Maintains organized tracking of open items, recurring issues, action plans, deadlines, owners, aging, supporting documentation, and resolution status. Escalates significant, aged, recurring, or high-risk matters to the AVP Mortgage Accounting timely and assists in preparing concise updates for accounting leadership and project governance forums.

• Assists in documenting mortgage accounting processes, transaction flows, control points, escalation paths, reporting dependencies, and recurring procedures. Helps maintain desk procedures, process maps, issue logs, decision logs, and other documentation needed to support audit readiness, operational consistency, and sustainable knowledge transfer.
• Supports the Mortgage Accounting team in monitoring adherence to established processes, reconciliation standards, exception management protocols, approval workflows, and internal control expectations. Assists with gathering support for audit, examination, control testing, and remediation requests, ensuring information is complete, accurate, well organized, and provided timely.

• Supports the review, validation, and follow-up of mortgage-related activity impacting general ledger accounts, clearing and suspense accounts, escrow activity, investor and custodial activity, payment processing, loan sales, participation, mortgage servicing rights, and other mortgage-related balances. Assists team members in obtaining supporting reports, researching operational questions, validating data, and documenting explanations for variances or exceptions.
• Partners with Mortgage Accounting team members to identify trends, recurring breaks, data gaps, timing differences, mapping concerns, process inconsistencies, and other items that impact reconciliation quality or month-end close. Assists in tracking…