Countrywide Financial Corp. cut nearly 5,000 jobs in September, and funded 44.3 percent fewer mortgage loans, the company told Reuters on Thursday. Over the year, mortgage funding by the Calabasas-based company fell $16.9 billion to $21.2 billion. Adjustable-rate mortgages dropped 76 percent and loans other than prime were down a whopping 92 percent, Reuters reported. Countrywide is cutting 12,000 jobs, or 20 percent of its workforce in the wake of the financial crisis in the home mortgage lending sector.