Washington Mutual, the largest holder of residential mortgages (with the
exception of Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae) is seeking several quantitative
methods professionals to join its new mortgage and prepayment scoring
department based in Irvine, CA. This is a ground level opportunity for
recent graduate statisticians, economists and operations research
specialists with PhD, or Masters degrees.
The individuals will be responsible for developing and deploying scoring
models that facilitate the fast, affordable and accurate evaluation of
residential mortgage loans. This will include developing credit risk
scoring, prepayment risk scoring and/or pricing models to be used by the
Mortgage Banking Division in the evaluation and pricing of activities.
Must have the ability to apply advanced statistical, mathematical and
econometric techniques for model construction. Familiarity with credit
scoring, credit bureau date, secondary mortgage market valuation
methodology, macroeconomics time series analysis, database marketing
techniques, options-based pricing models, database software and
statistical software is helpful. Keys to success will include excellent
problem solving skills, knowledge and understanding of date issues to
ensure successful analyses and an understanding of very large data sets
with the ability to manipulate them.
Washington Mutual offers an exciting and professional work environment
with comprehensive benefits. Qualified candidates may obtain an
application packet from any Washington Mutual location. Please send
completed application packet to:
Washington Mutual Bank
Attn: Theresa Ho
3600 Bristol St. 2nd Fl.
Santa Ana, CA 92704
Fax: (714) 556-8162
Resumes can be emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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