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Credit Risk Transfer Analytics Professional (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office - VA)

AT Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac

Credit Risk Transfer Analytics Professional (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office - VA)

McLean, VA

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Position Overview:

Today Freddie Mac manages a single-family mortgage portfolio of about $3 trillion. The Credit Risk Transfer group is responsible for driving our credit risk transfer (CRT) transactions to transfer a significant portion of that credit risk to the private capital market. If you have superb analytical skills and have passion in developing a capital market career in a mission-driven company, please join us!

Our Impact:

The CRT team achieves its goal through a suite of innovative offerings, including STACR and ACIS. These transactions help to protect Freddie Mac and taxpayers in the event of a severe economic downturn, and they make our business more efficient by economically reducing the capital we must hold. The CRT portfolio today is more than $50 billion, transferring the credit risk on about $1.6 trillion of single-family mortgage portfolio.

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The team provides robust analytics to support the execution of the CRT transactions, including STACR and ACIS new issuance as well as CRT portfolio transactions (e.g., tender offers, call options). The team is considered as "super user" of all models/methods/applications that impact CRT valuation, and leads or participates in developing new initiatives and structures for the CRT group.

Your Impact:

Your will be the CRT liaison with model/methodology owners and financial engineering teams for model/application updates and enhancements that impact CRT valuation and analytics. You will use other platforms/applications owned by other divisions or departments to enhance CRT analytical capabilities. You will be involved in providing analytics to support CRT strategy and improve deal execution, and contribute to the $50+ billion CRT portfolio surveillance and recommend transaction opportunities for improving CRT efficiency and effectiveness.

You will also work on and be involved in some of the following tasks:

  • Develop, support and maintain CRT analytical tools and procedures.
  • Develop new CRT analytics (data driven, market driven).
  • Support CRT deal execution and participate in capital market research.
  • Ad hoc projects based on management request and/or market condition.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with 2+ years of experience
  • Strong quantitative / analytical skills. Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel
  • 2+ years fixed income / mortgage / capital market experience
  • Ability to effectively communicate to management and business partners.
  • Preferred: Proficiency in at least one of the following: SAS, SQL, Python, R, Tableau, or other similar tools.

Keys to Success in this Role:

  • Ability to work independently and in a fast-paced environment, take initiatives
  • Creative thinking
  • Attention to detail

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.

Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $94,000 - $142,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

Client-provided location(s): McLean, VA, USA
Job ID: Freddie_Mac-JR13779
Employment Type: Full Time