Mortgage Valuation Specialist

About the role

The Point72 Valuation team manages the valuation of all investments across the firm’s extensive hedge fund, private equity, and venture capital portfolios. The team’s investment valuation coverage ranges from exchange traded products to derivatives traded in OTC markets, to venture capital and private equity.

Responsibilities

• Manage the valuation of mortgage-backed securities, including specified pools, CMOs, TBA/TBA options, and non-agency products.
• Oversee market data inputs to valuation models, ensuring compliance with the firm’s valuation policy.
• Perform model validation for new or upgraded valuation models supporting new products and system enhancements.
• Perform price testing analysis against counterparty valuation and third-party pricing vendors such as Bloomberg, JPM PricingDirect, and BofA PriceServe.
• Maintain valuation support documentation to evidence the accuracy of investment valuations.
• Partner with investment professionals, Risk, and other supporting teams on pricing, valuation, P&L, and valuation models.
• Collaborate with the Technology team to implement valuation setups for new products and automate valuation processes.

Requirements

• 7+ years of mortgage valuation experience covering agency MBS, including specified pools, CMOs, TBA/TBA options, as well as non-agency products such as RMBS, CMBS, and CLO.
• Strong quantitative or finance background.
• Strong knowledge of derivatives valuation modeling principles.
• Knowledge of financial products and Greeks, particularly in the derivatives space.
• Strong sense of ownership and the ability to resolve issues independently.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to work effectively on a cross-functional team.
• Strong leadership skills to educate, train, and develop others to expand the capabilities and capacity of the Valuation team.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Benefits

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non-profit matching gift program
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

Pay

The annual base salary range for this role is $240,000-$260,000 (USD), which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.