Financial Accounting and Analysis Professional

Freddie Mac

1d • $80,000 - $120,000

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. Continue your career journey where your work contributes to a greater purpose.
Position Overview:
Freddie Mac’s Finance Division is currently seeking a Financial Controller Professional to handle monthly baseline accounting within the Multifamily CFO group. In this role, the individual will be responsible for the accounting close cycle execution, related financial reporting, financial results and data analysis. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with innovative thinking to improve processes and tackle issues, can independently settle and develop approaches to ensure accuracy or solution to issues, and is comfortable to work across divisions.
Our Impact:
The Finance team in the Multifamily segment is primarily responsible for the accounting close execution, financial reporting disclosures and financial research & analysis. We're building a better housing finance system that's providing global investors innovative opportunities to invest in the U.S. housing market. Pair your accounting skills with purpose!
Your Impact:
You will bring your financial proven experience and expertise to help ensure the accounting aligns with GAAP and Freddie Mac policy. Responsibilities include:

Requirements

• 2-4 years of experience in an accounting-related field
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Accounting, Finance, Business, preferred
• Administration or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills may be acquired
• Intermediate to advanced MS Excel and Word Skills
• Overtime may be required to meet accounting close deadlines or other deliverables

Nice To Haves

• Detail and multi-task oriented with minimal direct supervision
• Team-oriented and self-motivated
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and deadlines
• Ability to prioritize and be self-directed
• Work product exhibits minimal errors

Responsibilities

• Perform monthly account reconciliation between the subledger to general ledger to source system
• Prepare journal entries in general ledger and subledger
• Research and resolve data or other issues as they arise in daily or monthly tasks
• Support and coordinate with internal and external auditors
• Support SOX documentation requirements
• Interact and communicate effectively with the business and other upstream or downstream partners to resolve issues and/or understand unique business transactions
• Support monthly analytics
• Prepare quarterly disclosures to support SEC filings
• Understand data lineage and controls relevant to assigned workstreams, along with the functionality of systems used
• Solve sophisticated business issues by putting pieces together and understanding how our systems work
• Support ad-hoc requests and special projects
• Proactively seek opportunities for improvements
• Document and understand system and business requirements needs
• Demonstrate full ownership of issues or requests from start to finish
• Facilitate appropriate handoffs and supervise the task through to its resolution
• Identify issues and propose solutions to resolve the issues or to satisfy the stated needs
• Work independently while driving and leading assignments from concept through deployment

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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