Corporate Strategy Project Analyst

Western Alliance Bank; Westlake Village (CA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401(k) matching

Tuition assistance

Medical and dental insurance

Time off

Employee volunteer program

Wellness program

Ownership stake in the company

Job summary

AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank company, seeks a Corporate Strategy Project Analyst in Westlake Village, CA. You will support centralized execution, reporting, and governance for multiple strategic initiatives within the PMO, building dashboards, tracking progress, and coordinating with PMs, BAs, and SMEs across projects.

You will work with Smartsheet, Confluence, and JIRA, preparing executive updates and maintaining project artifacts while ensuring consistency and cadence across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 1+ years of project management experience or related field.
• Basic residential mortgage industry knowledge including sales, operations, capital markets, or related products/services.
• Knowledge of regulatory and legal compliance obligations and industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain dashboards, workflows, and project artifacts.
• Monitor tickets, dependencies, risks, and follow-ups.
• Support intake, prioritization, and workflow management.
• Enable cost-benefit analysis through structured data gathering.
• Own recurring and ad-hoc reporting and executive updates.
• Assist PMs and BAs with project scopes and deliverables.
• Coordinate with PMO leadership and stakeholders across projects.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder communication

MS Office proficiency

Multi-tasking

Advanced speaking/writing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Smartsheet

Confluence

ADO environments

JIRA

Job description

Job Title:

Corporate Strategy Project Analyst

Location:

CA - Westlake Village

What you’ll do:

As a Project Analyst role you’ll be a force multiplier for Corporate Strategy, providing centralized execution, reporting, and governance support across initiatives. You’ll be responsible for supporting multiple aspects for the Corporate PMO team. This includes creation and maintenance of dashboards and reporting with our project management software, ticketing system, and policy & procedure document repository. You will work closely with the project managers and the PMO leadership team. You’ll function as support on various projects and interact with the PM, BA, and SMEs. You’ll work outside vendors to assist in scheduling demos and following up on take-away, as is needed for an active project.

• Project & Portfolio Execution: Maintain dashboards, workspaces, and project artifacts.
• Monitor tickets, dependencies, risks, and follow-ups
• Support intake, prioritization, and workflow management -
• Enabling cost-benefit analysis through structured data gathering.
• Reporting & Executive Enablement
• Own recurring and ad-hoc reporting
• Assist with executive decks and leadership updates
• Consolidate inputs across PMs, BAs, and stakeholders to assist Corp Strategy leadership direction.
• Operational & Governance Ownership :Maintain Smartsheet, Confluence, and ADO environments
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and cadence across tools
• Support PMO processes and coverage.
• Assist Project Managers (cover when OOO and work as a secondary PM): Lead the implementation of a project.
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Define project tasks and resource requirements.
• Develop full-scale project plans.
• Manage workflow in JIRA. Assemble and coordinate project staff.
• Plan and schedule project timelines.
• Track project deliverables using appropriate tools.
• Provide direction and support to the project team.
• Perform quality assurance.
• Constantly monitor and report on the progress of the project to all stakeholders.
• Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions.
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
• Project evaluations and assessment of results..

What you’ll need:

• 1+ years of related experience in Project Management Experience or similar field.
• 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.
• Entry level to intermediate Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office products, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
• Entry level to intermediate Ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.

Compensation: Salary range for new hires is generally $84,045.00 - $103,818.00 for Westlake Village, CA. Salary amount is determined by specific job location. In addition, the role may be eligible for annual bonus/incentives earned.

Benefits you’ll love:

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!

About the company:

AmeriHome 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 Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email [e-mail] or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation