Senior Business Analyst​/Project Manager

Senior Business Analyst, Underwriting Transformation

Location:Remote

Reports To:SVP, Underwriting Transformation and Strategy

Department:Credit

Logan Finance is hiring a senior-level Business Analyst / Project Manager to serve as a key execution partner to the SVP, Underwriting Transformation and Strategy. This role is dedicated to driving the initiatives that transform how underwriting decisions are made, communicated, measured, and delivered across the organization.

The successful candidate will translate the SVP's strategic priorities, credit decisioning and delegation of authority, customer-first service delivery, underwriting quality and training, technology adoption, workflow and process transformation, offshore underwriting expansion, and underwriting talent development, into clearly structured plans, requirements, and documentation that drive disciplined, measurable execution, with hands-on operational readiness and implementation oversight through go-live and stabilization in partnership with Business Optimization & Change Management (BOCM) and adherence to Change Delivery policies & procedures.

This role requires more than general mortgage origination experience. It requires a professional with credible, hands‑on underwriting, quality control, and/or credit policy knowledge, including recent experience underwriting Non‑QM loan products (preferred), who can accurately capture requirements, assess operational and credit‑risk impact, and partner effectively with Credit, Operations, Sales, Technology, Capital Markets, Quality Control, Appraisal, Condo Review, and third‑party service providers.

This individual will operate comfortably as both a delivery leader and a strategic analyst, capable of connecting the SVP's underwriting transformation objectives to detailed, on‑the‑ground execution plans.

• Independently manage the portfolio of initiatives supporting the underwriting transformation strategy, including credit decisioning models, delegated authority changes, escalation reduction, and workflow redesign, from initiation through implementation and stabilization.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, roadmaps, and delivery milestones aligned to the SVP's underwriting strategy priorities.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies across interrelated underwriting work streams.
• Establish governance, reporting, and escalation routines that give the SVP and cross‑functional stakeholders timely visibility into progress, risk, and decisions.
• Drive accountability across Credit, Operations, Technology, and offshore teams to ensure transformation commitments and deliverables are met.

• Lead requirements gathering, discovery sessions, and stakeholder interviews with to define business, operational, and system requirements for improvement initiatives.
• Analyze underwriting workflows, escalation themes, QC/TPR findings, and productivity data to identify root causes and recommend sustainable process and policy solutions.
• Develop high‑quality artifacts such as business requirements documents (BRDs), functional requirements, process flows, gap analyses, and impact assessments that support technology roadmap prioritization and workflow redesign decisions.
• Translate complex credit, risk, and technology concepts into documentation suitable for underwriting staff, underwriting managers, and technology teams.
• Identify opportunities to streamline underwriting workflows, reduce touches and handoffs, and improve productivity without compromising credit quality.

• Support the design, documentation,…