Residential Mortgage Asset Oversight Analyst

Ellington Management Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ellington Management Group seeks a highly analytical Residential Mortgage Asset Management / Servicing Oversight Analyst in New York. You will own issues from identification to resolution, collaborating with accounting, servicers, vendors, and counterparties to implement repeatable, scalable processes.

The role focuses on enhancing portfolio-level controls, reducing losses, and improving efficiency by transforming recurring issues into documented workflows and dashboards with data-driven

Qualifications

• 1–10 years in residential mortgage servicing, servicing oversight, asset management, mortgage operations or a related area.
• Working understanding of the mortgage lifecycle and how servicers operate.
• Track record of fixing the underlying process, not just the immediate problem.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large loan-level datasets.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication with internal teams and outside servicers.

Responsibilities

• Monitor loan-level and portfolio performance, including delinquency, loss mitigation, modifications, foreclosure, bankruptcy, REO and payoffs.
• Oversee servicing transfers and loan boarding, and catch data and terms errors early.
• Confirm purchased balances are boarded accurately and first payments to servicers are made on time.
• Reconcile servicer reporting and remittances, and review advances, fees and claims.
• Work issues directly with servicers, vendors and counterparties through to resolution, and elevate with clear recommendations.
• Monitor foreclosure timelines against state and investor benchmarks, and follow up with servicers on delays.
• Make decisions on loss mitigation, foreclosure and REO sales.
• Maintain constant line of communications with origination partners
• Manage Early Payment Default pipeline.
• Turn recurring issues into documented workflows, exception reports and controls that cover the whole portfolio.
• Find manual work that can be automated or eliminated.
• Work with the technology team to design dashboards and monitoring tools that surface problems before they become losses.
• Use Excel and SQL to analyze loan and servicing data and to size the portfolio impact of an issue.
• Use AI tools such as Claude to speed up analysis, documentation and workflow building.
• Partner with our data and technology teams to scale what you build.

Skills

Excel

SQL

Communication

Tools

Claude AI

Job description

Ellington Management Group seeks a highly analytical Residential Mortgage Asset Management / Servicing Oversight Analyst in New York. You will own issues from identification to resolution, collaborating with accounting, servicers, vendors, and counterparties to implement repeatable, scalable processes.

The role focuses on enhancing portfolio-level controls, reducing losses, and improving efficiency by transforming recurring issues into documented workflows and dashboards with data-driven