Escrow Officer jobs in South Carolina

Position Summary

The Escrow Analyst Specialist maintains the quality and accuracy of loan servicing data, driving the customer (borrower, client, payee and internal customer) experience with loans under service with RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation, and minimizing the risk of damage, default, foreclosure, and repossession by ensuring timely and accurate payments for items under escrow and monitoring for non-escrow accounts. Individual must be able to work with minimum supervision.

Primary Responsibilities

• Maintain consistent attendance record to ensure fulfillment of essential functions.
• Perform all duties in accordance with RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing policies and procedures, investor requirements, and all state and federal regulations.
• Display professional customer service skills, creating an acceptable level of customer satisfaction.
• Provide customer service to payees, investors and borrowers concerning tax status.
• Identify and resolve tax and escrow exceptions.
• Explain payment and escrow changes to borrowers.
• Process disbursements on or before the renewal/due/penalty date.
• Research and resolve tax issues.
• Maintain payee headers.
• Open and distribute mail on a daily basis.
• Work with vendors to monitor escrow and non-escrow loans.
• Prepare exception reports and resolve exception items.
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness of tax payments.
• Identify trends affecting efficiency, quality, and accuracy of escrow administration processes and recommend action plans to improve future performance.
• Communicate with vendors regarding exceptions to identify and resolve issues and trends.
• Identify potential issues or concerns and participate in a solution, including recommending and developing new policies and procedures.
• Assist in the completion of special projects and seasonal projects, such as year-end reporting or acquisitions.
• Perform other duties as requested by Escrow Supervisor.
• Incumbent will be responsible for meeting RoundPoint’s commitment to compliance

Qualifications

Required:

• Thorough knowledge of mortgage servicing documents and processes, particularly those related to escrow administration.
• Thorough knowledge of federal, state regulations and investor requirements related to escrow administration.
• Mortgage servicing application knowledge, preferably with Fidelity LPS.
• Knowledge of tax payments escrow disbursements.
• Advanced computer skills, including Microsoft Office products.
• Accounting and math skills.
• Ability to create and analyze portfolio data reports for management.

Desired:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 1-3 or more years of mortgage servicing experience preferred, one or more of which must be in escrow administration and/or data reporting.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Professionalism and ability to interface with upper management.
• Problem-solving skills, identify issues and concerns and participate in solutions.
• Ability to multitask
• Relentless pursuit of “world class service”, both internally and externally.
• Able to maintain confidentiality.
• Strong organizational skills; detail- and accuracy-oriented.
• Able to work in a team environment.
• Able to work in a high-pressure environment.
• Able to adapt to change.
• Able to work under strict deadlines and to meet/exceed deadlines.
• Able to understand and prioritize tasks according to urgency.
• Ad hoc reporting and trend analysis skills.

RoundPoint’s Employee Value Proposition:

Grow. Make a difference. Have fun along the way.

Our mission is to serve our homeowners and all of their homeownership needs. We do this by embracing challenges, executing with excellence, and fostering a positive work culture that encourages personal and professional growth. We are on the fast track to becoming the premier marketplace for all things home, and the National Mortgage News and Best Companies Group just named us one of 2019's Best Mortgage Companies to Work For! Without a doubt, RoundPointers are what make this company a great place to work!  That’s why we hire individuals who share our core values: Energy, Ethics, Execution, Everyone, and Earn it!

As a RoundPointer, we will empower you to innovate, provide meaningful solutions, set goals and crush them, play hard, and give back to the community!  Our secret sauce is our mantra, All In. All Win. Together, we can achieve great things!

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.  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 regularly required to talk or hear. 
• The employee is required to sit for extended periods of time and is occasionally required to stand and walk. 
• The employee must regularly use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects and is regularly required to reach with hands and arms; the employee may occasionally climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. 
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate, and no extreme conditions are present.