Principal Corporate Cash

Overview

The Principal, Corporate Cash (Accounting, Finance, & Treasury) is a senior individual contributor role embedded within the product organization. This is not a line operations or people management role. Instead, this position is designed for a deeply experienced servicing subject matter expert who understands, in detail, how servicing operations drive cash movement, and how those cash flows impact accounting, finance, and treasury functions, and can translate that expertise into scalable product capabilities.

This role is responsible for supporting the end-to-end definition, product translation, and operational readiness of corporate cash, accounting, and treasury-related workflows across the servicing lifecycle. The Principal ensures that servicing-driven cash activity (payments, disbursements, advances, remittances, and claims) is accurately reflected in corporate financial records, cash positions, and reporting outputs, with strong controls and auditability.

Reporting to the Director of Servicing Product, this role partners closely with Product and Engineering, as well as Accounting, Finance, and Treasury teams, to ensure that platform functionality accurately reflects real-world financial operations, GL impacts, and cash management requirements. Within the broader servicing product organization, this role serves as the primary domain subject matter expert and is responsible for translating business process expertise into clear requirements, workflows, controls, and testing input for Product and Engineering. The Principal plays a critical role in validating that business rules, financial logic, workflows, and edge cases are intentionally designed and not implicitly assumed

Responsibilities

Product and Operational Alignment

• Ensure product design reflects real servicing-driven cash flows and their impact on accounting, finance, and treasury functions.
• Translate servicing and financial processes into clear product requirements, business rules, controls, and system logic.
• Ensure corporate cash and financial workflows operate with appropriate controls, traceability, and auditability.
  
  

End-to-End Workflow Definition and Validation

• Define and validate end-to-end (E2E) workflows across corporate cash, accounting, and treasury domains.
• Document workflows across happy paths and edge cases, ensuring intentional handling of exceptions.
• Validate completeness and consistency of financial logic, posting rules, and dependencies across upstream and downstream systems.
  
  

Product Translation & Requirements Definition

• Translate domain expertise into product requirements, business rules, and system logic, and advise Product and Engineering on the operational implications of design and prioritization decisions.
• Ensure requirements are sufficiently detailed and unambiguous to support scalable, repeatable system behavior.
• Evaluate trade-offs across compliance, scalability, operational complexity, and speed to market.
• Surface risks early, particularly related to data integrity, financial accuracy, cash flow integrity, and G/L reporting impacts.
  
  

Engineering Partnership and Delivery Support

• Partner closely with engineering teams to refine requirements, clarify financial logic, and support implementation.
• Partner with Product and Engineering during backlog refinement and implementation planning to clarify requirements, validate business rules, and support functional decision-making.
  
  

Testing, Validation, & Automation Contribution

• Contribute to the development of known-answer and scenario-based test cases for corporate cash and financial workflows.
• Validate system behavior and outputs against expected financial, accounting, and reconciliation outcomes.
• Support UAT execution, defect triage, regression testing, and release readiness validation.
• Partner with QA and engineering to design and implement an automated test suite informed by accounting, finance, and treasury domain logic.
  
  

Functional Ownership: Corporate Cash, Accounting, Finance, & Treasury

• Establish control frameworks for corporate cash and financial processes, including reconciliation, approvals, segregation of duties, and audit evidence standards.
• Define requirements for how servicing events (payments, disbursements, advances, remittances, claims, and losses) impact corporate cash positions and financial records.
• Specify general ledger (GL) posting rules, account structures, and journal entry requirements tied to servicing activity, ensuring accuracy and traceability.
• Define requirements for cash positioning, liquidity tracking, and treasury visibility across custodial and corporate accounts.
• Establish reconciliation requirements between servicing systems, custodial accounts, bank accounts, and the general ledger.
• Define requirements for summarized journal entries and financial interfaces supporting accounting close processes (month-end, quarter-end, year-end).
• Define requirements for financial reporting outputs, including income recognition, expense classification, and balance sheet impacts related to servicing activity.
• Ensure alignment between investor reporting outputs and corporate financial reporting, including timing, netting, and cash movement impacts.
• Define requirements for advance funding, recovery, and corporate cash exposure tracking, including coordination with servicing and investor reporting domains.
• Specify requirements for claims, loss events, and recoveries, ensuring proper financial treatment and reporting.
• Define monitoring, reporting, and escalation routines for cash breaks, GL discrepancies, and financial control failures.
  
  

Flexible Domain Contribution

• Support adjacent servicing domains as needed based on program priorities and evolving platform needs.
• Partner across domains to ensure alignment of workflows, data, and operational dependencies throughout the servicing lifecycle.
• Contribute to resolution of cross-domain issues, gaps, and edge cases to ensure cohesive end-to-end platform behavior.
• Apply financial and servicing expertise to broader platform design decisions beyond primary area of ownership.
  
  

Qualifications

• 8 years in servicing accounting, corporate accounting, treasury, or related financial roles (AVP preferred; VP considered).
• Strong understanding of how servicing operations drive cash flow and financial reporting outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of general ledger structures, journal entries, reconciliation practices, and financial controls.
• Experience with cash management, liquidity tracking, and treasury operations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate financial and operational processes into clear business requirements, controls, workflows, and test scenarios for Product, Engineering, and QA Teams.
• Proven functional leadership across cross-functional teams, including Technology, Operations, Product, Finance, and external partners.
  
  

MSR Portfolio Services is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All aspects of consideration for employment and employment with the Company are governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.