Job Abstract

This role is within the Single Family Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) team, which is part of Single Family Acquisitions division. The position will help develop and implement a framework to enable well-coordinated analytics to support Single Family business decisions, as well as perform ad-hoc research and analysis.

Our team’s mission is to enable well-coordinated analytics across teams supporting the Single Family divisions, and to drive consistent and trusted analytics for Single Family business decision making. We establish and facilitate the Single Family Analytics Community forums at the analyst and executive levels, with representation from majority of teams that have an analytical role to inform business decisions and/or reporting.

Our team, in coordination with the analytical community, sees opportunities for developing or using common analytical techniques, tools, definitions, and data sources; coordinates multi-disciplinary analysis; and establishes Standards on data sources, definitions, techniques, tools and practices.

Our team also conducts proactive and reactive research on emerging risks that could impact Single Family business using industry data and research to develop recommendations to senior management.

You will:

• Lead ad-hoc research and analysis on emerging risk. Draft research synopsis and executive summary to senior management.

• Assist in analysis with a wide range of topics that touch on models, credit risk, pricing, affordable housing goals, capital, stress scenarios, etc.

• Help coordinate and facilitate the Single Family Analytics CoE Working Group meetings with agenda and meeting materials.

• Assist in planning and coordinating multiple workstreams to tackle opportunities to align on analytical techniques, tools, definitions, and data sources. Interact frequently with various analytics groups across the company.

• Develop draft standards, best practices and references documentation for the analytics community.

• Maintain and develop the SF Analytics CoE internal website (SharePoint portal).

• Mentor and coach junior analysts.

• Graduate Degree in quantitative finance, business, statistics, economics or a related quantitative field

• 7 - 10 years of mortgage industry experience

• 5+ years of data analysis experience working with large datasets and relational database

• Proficiency in programming languages such as SAS, SQL, Python or R. Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Tableau is a plus

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to succinctly describe complex technical details in simple and easily-understood terms

• Strong business insight to understand wide ranges of business domains and their connections

• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, capability of researching on challenging tasks, and actively looking for solutions

• Ability to work well with others

• Strong organizational skills with project management experience

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

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