VP, Mortgage Specialty Lending Operations

About the role

Provides technical, operational, and collateral‑tracking support for Mortgage Specialty Finance activities, including lending platform system conversions, financing transactions, and ongoing portfolio administration.

Responsibilities

• Strictly adheres to Bank Secrecy Act requirements and applies organizational policies and procedures in all activities.
• Provides operational and technical support for specialty mortgage finance transactions, including MSR financing, servicing advances, EBO and other structured mortgage finance products.
• Leads and supports the conversion and implementation of the specialty mortgage finance lending platform, including requirements gathering, process redesign, user acceptance testing, data migration validation, and post‑conversion maintenance.
• Partners with IT, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure the lending platform supports collateral tracking, reporting, advance mechanics, funding workflows.
• Oversees collateral tracking, reporting, to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery to internal stakeholders and external financing partners.
• Acts as an operational liaison between internal teams (Business Development, Credit, Treasury, Compliance, and IT) and external counterparties to facilitate efficient transaction execution and ongoing portfolio administration.
• Develops, documents, and maintains operational workflows, procedures, and controls to support scalable growth, platform functionality, and regulatory compliance.
• Identifies process gaps, system limitations, and operational risks and recommend enhancements to improve efficiency, controls, automation, and data quality.
• Assists with audits, examinations, due diligence requests, and internal reviews related to specialty mortgage finance operations and systems.

Qualifications

• Computer and Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Thorough knowledge of banking policies, procedures, products and services.
• Able to effectively and persuasively express self, using language and grammar in a professional manner.
• Able to plan, schedule and organize professional schedule to achieve goals within or ahead of established time frames.
• Able to provide a high level of interactive service to others, building relationships and addressing identified needs.
• Demonstrates commitment to quality customer service and ability to meet or exceed service goals.
• Able to analyze and record detailed information.
• Able to research, analyze, identify viable options, draw sound conclusions, present findings and make thoughtful recommendations considering overall risk and short-term and long-term impact.

Experience & Education

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Mortgage Warehouse or MSR financing or equivalent position required.
• Banking compliance or risk management experience preferred.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent education and related training or experience required.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance – Ameris Bank absorbs a major portion of the cost of healthcare. You become eligible for coverage on the first of the month following 30 days of employment.
• Life Insurance provided at no additional cost to employees.
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment Coverage.
• Long-Term Disability Coverage.
• Paid Sick and Vacation Leave.
• 11 Holidays.
• Volunteer/Service Day.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Ameris Bank matches 50% of your first 8% of contributions to the plan.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Health Savings Account.
• Health Reimbursement Arrangement.
• Supplemental Life & Other Insurance Plans.
• Identity Theft Protection.
• Pet Insurance.
• Legal Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Employee Advocacy Program.
• Tickets at Work (Entertainment discounts for Ameris Bank Employees).
• AT&T Employee Discount.
• Wellness Discounts for Medical Premiums and Other Rewards.
• Employee Referral Incentive.
• Education Assistance.
• Employee Resource Groups.

Banking Advantages For Employees

• Free Interest Checking.
• Free Safe Deposit Box.
• Free Money Orders, Travelers' Checks and Cashier Checks.
• Discount on Mortgage Origination Fee.
• Free Online Banking and Free Unlimited Online Bill Payment.
• Employee Banking Perks.

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