•Analyze potential deals to determine if they are suitable investment properties by studying dozens of home/lot listings (both on- and off-market) each week.•Utilize internal pricing software to identify comparable home sales, project revenue estimates and determine if the deal is a good fit for Homebound.•Work cross-functionally with investment strategy, procurement, architecture & design, growth to ensure alignment on deal financials.•Conduct high-level research on various aspects of potential investments (e.g., taxes, insurance, HOA fees, school districts and average household income) to inform the investment thesis on individual deals.

•Analyze and underwrite individual homes for pricing and risk-based decisions.•Used model outputs and tools built in-house and validated results with personal expertise to help make key acquisition pricing decisions on homes.•Developed expertise in local market nuances.•Engaged cross-functionally to ensure we are pricing and underwriting homes fairly, accurately, and competitively.•Participated in special projects focused on our pricing operations, such as collaborating with our data science and engineering teams to improve our models and tools.

•Manage a team of 10 pricing analysts, including performance and career development.•Review and document team members' pricing cases to drive performance improvement.•Handle hiring and onboarding of team members.•Approve complex pricing cases/underwriting and resolve cross-team escalations.•Lead projects by analyzing, streamlining, and developing tools with product/engineering teams to improve the pricing tools.•Analyze financial statements to assess the risk and potential return of an investment.•Identify and mitigate risks associated with real estate investments.•Assisted with the launch of a single-family rental portfolio.•Used various online and internal property tools to gather and analyze data required to value single-family homes for their as-is value, after-renovation value, and rental yield.•Coordinate cross-functionally with Dispositions, Sales, Operations, Renovations and Leadership.

•Assist Pricing Leads with day-to-day operations, questions related to underwriting from Analysts, and the underwriting approval process.•Accurately value single-family homes by incorporating data from an existing property, neighborhood, recent sales, and other internal data (i.e., Zestimate).•Manage messaging channels to support immediate internal partner questions.•Manage pricing queue and allocate resources as needed.•Enforce SOPs and implement processes that could be more efficient or effective.•Assists Pricing Leads with coaching and mentoring a group of analysts.•Onboarding and new hire training.•Develop a deep understanding of markets within the region and assist the Pricing Lead with market-level outreach and responsibilities.•Support Pricing Leads in market-level management meetings.•Assist Pricing Leads and other Acquisitions leadership with special projects as needed, including coordinating across departments to develop advanced analytics and process improvements.•Have a thorough understanding of the advantages and risks involved with the use of Machine Learning to assist with analyses, including alerting to possible issues that could lead to inaccurate pricing analyses.•Ad hoc data analysis and reporting relevant to acquisitions activity.•Responsible for recognizing and rewarding the pricing operations team, and our business partners, for outstanding work. In addition, we plan events and activities to establish a unified culture of fun across our three regions.

•Pre-underwriting, evaluating risk, and assessing the completeness of the underwriting package before the underwriter is required to review.•Acting as a liaison and communicating directly with brokers and internal and external contacts on behalf of the underwriters by maintaining accounts to ensure implementation progress, such as promptly returning phone calls/emails.•Managing the workflow of multiple tasks and maintaining a detailed understanding of the status of various tasks owned by Underwriters, Brokers, Reinsurers, XL Catlin internal network, and Fronting Partners around the world.•Proactively problem-solving to balance and manage client/broker expectations with internal service standards.•Collaborating closely with Underwriters, Product Management, Legal, and Regulatory as necessary to perform pre-bind activities and to confirm policy issuance instructions and manuscript wordings, regulatory notices, certificates, etc. to effectively instruct the Coding and Issuance Unit. • Assessing when necessary and performing quality control of rating, coding, and issuance output to ensure accuracy of work (e.g. exposure bases, limits, coverage extensions, modifications, data entry, etc.).