What are the responsibilities and job description for the Appraisal Desk position at American Heritage Lending, LLC?
American Heritage Lending, LLC located in Irvine CA is looking for a Mortgage Appraisal Desk position.
Established in 2008, the company was founded to be a company set apart from an already impacted market. Licensed in multiple states across the US, the premise of our company evolved into the pinnacle for our success - creating a caring experience for the families we service across the nation.
Position Overview:
Appraisal Desk position will work directly with the Appraisal Department team processing appraisal orders from entry through reception as well as assisting with any subsequent revision requests.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities include:
- Responsible for organizing, tracking, and responding to appraisal requests in a timely manner.
- Manage the data input from completed reports and updates from the third-party vendors.
- Ensure Compliance with Regulations
- Verify that all appraisal processes comply with Appraiser Independence Requirements (AIR), Dodd-Frank Act, and Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP).
- Maintain adherence to investor and lender guidelines.
- Track progress of the appraisal orders and ensure the Appraisal Management Companies are performing up to expected service levels.
- Serve as a liaison between the Appraisers, Lenders, Loan Officers, Processors, and Underwriters.
- Follow up on borrower engagement and payment statuses.
- Gather Market Data and Comparables:
- Research sales data, market trends, and neighborhood statistics.
- Select and analyze comparable properties for valuation purposes.
- Shadow Appraisal Manager
Experience & Minimum Qualifications (Skills, Knowledge & Abilities):
- 2 years’ experience in residential mortgage
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent documentation and process mapping skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent written communication skills
- Ability to adapt to change
- Strong team player with a high level of professionalism and initiative
- Non-QM, DSCR, RTL experience preferred
Essential Mental & Physical Requirements:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Frequently required to sit, stand, kneel, stoop, or squat
- Use hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls
- Reach with hands and arms
- Talk or hear
- Specific vision ability includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
- Ability to analyze situations logically to identify causes and draw solid conclusions
- Ability to anticipate the consequences of a situation
- Ability to modify one’s own behavior to meet expectations of others
- Ability to sustain one’s own emotions from interfering with responding effectively to internal and external customer’s needs
- Displays honesty and trustworthiness; has a sense of personal accountability; maintains a moral conviction to do the right thing
Physical Demands:
The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
This job operates in an office setting and largely sedentary, requiring the routine use of a computer and other standard office equipment. The ability to lift or move up to 20 pounds, bend, reach, and perform manual tasks may also be required. Remote work is an optional setting. Work environment characteristics are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather condition prevalent at the time. Business travel may provide for varying degrees of change in the work environment. The noise level in work environment is usually moderate.
Job Classification:
The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
This job operates in an office setting and largely sedentary, requiring the routine use of a computer and other standard office equipment. The ability to lift or move up to 20 pounds, bend, reach, and perform manual tasks may also be required. Remote work is an optional setting. Work environment characteristics are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather condition prevalent at the time. Business travel may provide for varying degrees of change in the work environment. The noise level in work environment is usually moderate.
Job Classification:
- Hourly
Location:
- Onsite at 19800 MacArthur Blvd, Ste 950, Irvine, CA 92612
Benefits:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Basic Life & AD&D
- Matching 401(k)
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
Why American Heritage Lending:
- We are a high-growth Company that doubled our staff in 2022
- Competitive Salary
- Wide Product Options - Bridge, Fix and Flip, FHA, VA, Conventional, Non-QM, DCSR, Hard Money Loans and more
- We are not impacted by the volatility of the interest rate
This Company describes its culture as:
Family-Accountability-Integrity-Teamwork-Have fun along the way
Start your career today with American Heritage Lending!
Note: Nothing in this job description restricts the company’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made in appropriate circumstances to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of the position.
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