Ocwen - Transaction Manager

Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (NYSE:OCN) is an industry leader in residential and commercial mortgage loan servicing with a 20 plus year track record of success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with offices in Florida, Texas and Washington, DC as well as support operations in India and Uruguay, Ocwen has been featured in Time Magazine, National Public Radio, New York Times, and other national publications for our innovation, dynamic growth and ability to successfully help homeowners across the US.
As a leader in loan modifications, we strive to help struggling families meet their financial responsibilities and stay in their homes as well as help them address the concerns and complex questions they may have about their home and mortgage. Helping homeowners is what we do!
Make a difference by working in this dynamic, growing field for one of the most innovative and fastest-growing companies in the mortgage servicing industry.

The Transaction Manager will have overall responsibility to manage the acquisitions process for MSR and other transactions for the Residential Servicing Operations of the Company. This position will report directly to the Director of Acquisitions.

Primary Responsibilities

- Manage the transaction process from committee approval to closing

- Create and maintain a timeline and responsibilities schedule for each transaction by identifying and monitoring Resource Estimates, Overall Project Timeline, Project Milestones, Task Dependencies, and Critical Path

- Set and manage project expectations ensuring all applicable functional areas are engaged

- Coordinate with internal and external parties to ensure timely completion of their deliverables

- Execute transaction with respect to Time, Cost, and Quality

- Evaluate transaction progress and success by conducting regular team status meetings, reporting project status, executing and updating management plans as necessary, resolving issues as they arise

- Ensure successful and timely transaction closing

- Promote continuous improvement by conducting, documenting, and communicating lessons learned

- Prepare and conduct informal and formal presentations

- Influence departmental procedures and objectives

- Build relationships with all functional areas and manage stakeholder expectations

Qualifications

- Bachelors/Masters Degree in finance, project management or business-related field

- Minimum of five years of acquisitions, project management and/or consulting experience

- Solid knowledge of and demonstrated experience in project management processes and methodologies

- Extensive experience in meeting planning, facilitation, and public speaking

- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)

- Comfortable in ambiguous and fast paced environment.

- Able to operate at a high level while willing to work on intimate details of a situation

- Crisp communication and presentation skills

- Ability to build relationships with and influence other functional areas

- Good negotiation skills

- Ability to build consensus

- Detail and big picture orientation

- Organization and time management skills: Operates independently with minimal guidance by management

- Problem-solving skills with ability to perform root cause / corrective action analysis

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Ability to manage multiple tasks in parallel