Business Risk Lead

Freddie Mac • McLean, VA

1d • $126,000 - $188,000

About The Position

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose. Position Overview: Are you ready to leverage your expertise in Operational Risk to make a significant impact in the mortgage servicing industry? Freddie Mac is seeking an accomplished Risk Practitioner to join our Enterprise Risk team, providing independent oversight across divisions. This is a unique opportunity to shape risk management practices, influence senior leaders, and drive meaningful change. If you excel at analytical thinking, problem-solving, and persuasive communication, we invite you to join our team and help us advance our risk culture. This position is based in Plano, TX or McLean, VA. #MoreAtFreddieMac! Our Impact: As a Business Risk Lead, you will: Deliver independent oversight of Freddie Mac divisions, ensuring operational risks are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled within established tolerances. Apply a robust monitoring framework to challenge and review risk practices. Aggregate and communicate independent, data-driven views of operational risk with a forward-looking perspective. Build influential relationships with business partners, becoming a trusted advisor and stakeholder in risk management activities. Your Impact: Independently assessing operational risk and control environments through quantitative and qualitative means. Review, support, and challenge divisional operational risk profiles, focusing on key drivers, trends, future outlook, and escalation points. Coordinate across all non-financial risk domains to develop a holistic risk perspective. Foster positive relationships with stakeholders, actively participating in risk discussions and supporting effective challenges to drive actionable outcomes. Implement and enhance processes, procedures, and tools that support operational risk oversight routines. Bringing a focus upon internal process re-engineering, with a view to making recommendations and enhancements to existing Risk processes where opportunities arise. Monitor activities and provide critical inputs for quarterly divisional risk profile reporting, highlighting significant and emerging risks, effective challenges, and first-line risk management strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent work experience) and 8+ years of overall relevant experience with 5+ years in operational or compliance risk management.
• Proven ability to influence at all organizational levels, including executives, and unite teams toward common goals.
• Experience in process design and control assessment.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience in the secondary mortgage market, mortgage lending, or mortgage-related securities.
• Highly driven, results-oriented, and recognized as a “value partner” who proactively builds and leverages relationships internally and externally.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to articulate complex concepts clearly.
• Deliver thoughtful, fact-based challenges to divisions using a clear, concise, and risk-based approach.
• Strong team player and ability to communicate clearly and concisely to senior leadership.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to lead change and deliver results
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize.
• Apply data-driven insights to advise on risk perspectives, demonstrating intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility.
• Exhibit strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.
• Communicate effectively—both written and verbal—across all levels of the organization, including through impactful visualizations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver independent oversight of Freddie Mac divisions, ensuring operational risks are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled within established tolerances.
• Apply a robust monitoring framework to challenge and review risk practices.
• Aggregate and communicate independent, data-driven views of operational risk with a forward-looking perspective.
• Build influential relationships with business partners, becoming a trusted advisor and stakeholder in risk management activities.
• Independently assessing operational risk and control environments through quantitative and qualitative means.
• Review, support, and challenge divisional operational risk profiles, focusing on key drivers, trends, future outlook, and escalation points.
• Coordinate across all non-financial risk domains to develop a holistic risk perspective.
• Foster positive relationships with stakeholders, actively participating in risk discussions and supporting effective challenges to drive actionable outcomes.
• Implement and enhance processes, procedures, and tools that support operational risk oversight routines.
• Bringing a focus upon internal process re-engineering, with a view to making recommendations and enhancements to existing Risk processes where opportunities arise.
• Monitor activities and provide critical inputs for quarterly divisional risk profile reporting, highlighting significant and emerging risks, effective challenges, and first-line risk management strategies.

Benefits

• Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs.
• This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $126,000 - $188,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level