Staff Appraiser

Company Description

ARE YOU READY TO WORK AT ALTISOURCE?

If so, nice to meet you; We are Altisource! We are seeking energetic, highly skilled self-starters who thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. We can offer you an exciting career with meaningful work and great colleagues as well as many development opportunities.

Altisource® is a provider of services focused on high-value, knowledge-based functions principally related to real estate and mortgage portfolio management, asset recovery and customer relationship management. Utilizing integrated technology that includes

Job Summary

The Staff Appraiser is responsible for analyzing and reviewing residential and commercial Appraisal and BPO’s, to ensure their alignment with regulatory and legal requirements. The analyst will provide insights into the reports submitted by the vendors and communicate with them in situations where they do not agree with valuations provided by the vendor. They will also need to communicate with clients, when required, advising on order status or following up on additional requirements needed to be fulfilled, if any, for the order to be delivered.

Job Description

What Do You Get to Do? 

• Perform detailed quality check reviews and analysis on all types of residential and commercial appraisal reports prepared by vendors/appraisers and to ensure these appraisals meet applicable standards, guidelines, and techniques for compliance with current policies, procedures, applicable laws, and regulations
• Complete exterior and interior residential appraisal order reviews, collaborating with internal and external customers to ensure seamless customer service
• Stay current on appraisal regulations as well as in legal matters in the Real Estate industry, ability to provide Coaching and training to fellow colleagues to improve ability to review work from Appraisers/Vendors.
• Collaborate with colleagues onshore and offshore
• Must have the ability to communicate with team members, vendor, clients, and upper management in a professional manor.
• Provide reviewing assistance on queries raised by onshore and/or offshore teams
• Assist the Chief Appraiser and LOB management with related tasks and projects
• Execute any additional task as assigned by Line of Business Management
• Serve as an escalation point on technical and service-based concerns raised by clients and quickly/efficiently address and resolve escalated issues utilizing tracking tools 
• Keep track of ongoing open order count, and ensure proper allocation of work and alignment with vendors’ capacity to complete within SLAs and quality expectations from both a transactional level and trend analysis level
• Working knowledge of valuations operations,
• Experience in use of Order Management Systems like EVO is an added benefit
• The ability to communicate effectively and work through challenges in tight timelines 

Qualifications

What You’ll Need To Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
• At least 3-5 years of experience in appraising 
• Strong understanding of financial principles, risk management, and appraisal documents and reviews. 

Additional Information

PERKS OF WORKING AT ALTISOURCE 

Prosperity 

• Competitive base salaries - we believe the top talent deserves the top dollar!   
• 401k plans with company matching – we want to empower you to foster your career, and prepare for retirement 

Good Health 

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans 
• Tax-free Flexible Spending Account 
• Life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability 

...And Happiness! 

• Paid holidays, plus 19 days of accrued PTO for a total of 28 paid days off per year 
• Free snacks, drinks and coffee 
• Lots of employee engagement activities both offsite (examples include family cricket/football games, annual company celebrations and happy hours) and onsite (examples include office stress buster events, holiday parties, and quarterly Living our Values celebrations) 
• Opportunities for you to join our community service initiatives, including Habitat for Humanity 

Are you up to the challenge? Apply today! 

Reach out to our Talent Acquisition Team directly at working@altisource.com if we can be of any assistance. 

At Altisource we value diversity, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.