Capital Markets - Strategic Initiatives Lead

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

About The Position

Multifamily Capital Markets is seeking an exceptionally curious, analytical, and driven professional to help identify, prioritize, and deliver the initiatives that can most improve the business. This is a rare opportunity to develop a broad view across the Multifamily Capital Markets organization, including loan pricing, pipeline risk management, portfolio management, securitization, credit-risk transfer, operations, and technology. You will work directly with a Capital Markets leader who brings deep Multifamily expertise, extensive Wall Street markets and product experience, and a track record of developing innovative solutions to complex financial problems. Together, you will examine how the business operates, identify its highest-impact opportunities, challenge existing assumptions, and develop solutions from first principles. This is a hands-on role combining original problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and end-to-end initiative delivery. You will research unfamiliar topics; analyze financial, market, and operational data; build analytical models and lightweight Python prototypes; test hypotheses; frame business questions; and develop fact-based recommendations. You will write the memos and presentations that move decisions forward, document conclusions and requirements, coordinate contributors, maintain project plans and follow-ups, and drive multiple initiatives through organizational and technical roadblocks from initial idea through implementation. The successful candidate will be expected to operate with substantial independence and combine analytical depth with exceptional conscientiousness and execution discipline. The role requires someone who takes ownership, maintains momentum across multiple complex initiatives, pursues unresolved issues, and keeps driving until decisions are made and outcomes are delivered.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
8 - 10 years of experience in capital markets, financial services, portfolio management, securitization, quantitative analysis, business analysis, product development, or initiative delivery.
Familiarity with fixed income, mortgages, derivatives, hedging, credit-risk transfer, or asset-liability management.
Demonstrated ability to analyze data and working proficiency with Python, SQL, Excel, or other analytical tools.
Demonstrated conscientiousness, ownership, and follow-through while managing several concurrent projects.
Understanding of P&L, financial analysis, market-risk measurement, capital allocation, or financial reporting.
Experience converting business needs into implementation requirements.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in finance, economics, quantitative finance, business, engineering, or a related field.
Curious: Wants to understand how the business actually works and does not stop at the first explanation.
A first-principles thinker: Separates fundamental objectives and economics from inherited processes and assumptions.
A driver: Creates and sustains momentum without waiting for detailed instructions.
An integrator: Brings together the right people, analysis, and decisions across Capital Markets functions.
Structured: Converts broad ideas into clear questions, deliverables, sequencing, and ownership.
Quantitatively capable: Can independently analyze financial data, develop models, and build prototypes that test an idea or demonstrate how a solution should work.
Conscientious and relentless: Produces accurate, complete work; closes loops; anticipates roadblocks; and persistently finds a path forward when projects stall.
Direct and collaborative: Raises difficult issues constructively and builds productive working relationships.
An owner: Treats initiatives as personal commitments from the initial question through the delivered outcome.

Responsibilities

Help leadership prioritize initiatives based on business value, urgency, complexity, and resource requirements.
Turn broad ideas and unresolved business issues into defined objectives, analyses, workstreams, and decisions.
Examine problems from first principles, test assumptions, and develop fact-based recommendations.
Coordinate work across Capital Markets teams and partners in Finance, Risk, Operations, Technology, and other parts of the company.
Establish owners, milestones, dependencies, and decision points; anticipate roadblocks; pursue open items; and keep initiatives moving toward resolution.
Gather and reconcile information, analyze financial, market, and operational data, build quantitative models, and identify gaps or conflicting conclusions.
Write concise, decision-ready memos and presentations that explain the issue, analysis, alternatives, economics, recommendation, and required actions.
Translate agreed-upon approaches into clear business requirements and implementation plans.
Remain engaged through delivery while ensuring that the appropriate business or operating function owns the resulting capability.
Develop analyses and Python prototypes when useful to test an idea, demonstrate an approach, or clarify business and technical requirements.
Frame issues independently, work directly with senior leaders and subject-matter experts, resolve cross-functional obstacles, and maintain ownership and momentum across multiple complex initiatives with limited direction.