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:
Are you looking for an opportunity to conduct meaningful empirical research and analytics? Do you want to work with a team that provides insights to partners to help drive decisions and help achieve company objectives? We are looking for a team member who is ready to apply their analytic skills to research that matters for Freddie Mac's mission.
Our Impact:
The Housing Insights and Solutions team in Freddie Mac's Single-Family Mission and Community Engagement Division offers research and technical expertise on housing data and policy issues with a focus on access to credit and underserved communities. We conduct and present research and analytics to provide insights for the affordable housing goals, duty to serve underserved markets, and business decisions in pursuit of our community mission.
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Your Impact:
- Support Housing Insights and Solutions team through data preparation, complex data and statistical analysis, and model output assessment.
- Design and implement processes and analytical tools to proactively support our community mission.
- Support research and analytics related to the affordable housing goals, duty to serve underserved markets, access to credit, and sustainable homeownership.
- Write memos summarizing results of analyses performed.
- Write programs to clean and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
- Research data tools and sources to develop efficient processes to retrieve and use relevant information.
- Refresh information, tools, processes and analytical systems with modifications as needed.
- Prepare and maintain documentation of models, processes and programs in use.
- Maintain working relationships with other departments and divisions.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in economics, statistics or a related quantitative field.
- Coursework or work experience applying predictive modeling techniques from finance, statistics, mathematics, data science, and computer programming to large data sets. Qualifying coursework may include--but is not limited to-statistics, mathematical programming, optimization, machine learning, computational methods, design and analysis of algorithms, Bayesian methods, derivatives, and Monte Carlo methods/modeling.
- Coursework or work experience writing statistical and/or optimization programs to develop models and algorithms. Programming languages may include--but are not limited to--Python, R, SQL, Java, SAS, and MATLAB.
Key to Success in this Role:
- Ability to apply an analytical attitude to understand problems and propose actionable solutions supporting strategic business decisions
- Exceptional quantitative, empirical analysis, and research skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills with ability to succinctly describe complex technical scenarios and analysis
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.
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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 $97,000 - $145,000 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.