Single Family - Risk Management - Senior Associate
About The Position
Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home. As a valued colleague on our team, you will contribute to assessing and identifying potential risks that may threaten our reputation, safety, security, and/or financial success. In this role, you will support risk management activities across the Single-Family business, help evaluate emerging and existing risks, and collaborate with teams across the organization to strengthen risk awareness, controls, and decision-making. You will bring thoughtful analysis, sound judgment, and a collaborative approach to help the organization proactively identify issues and manage risk within a highly regulated environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as business, finance, economics, risk management, accounting, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Relevant experience in risk management, business operations, financial services, governance, controls, audit, compliance, or a closely related area.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate information, identify key risks, and translate findings into practical recommendations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly to audiences with varying levels of risk expertise.
- Demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships, collaborate across functions, and influence outcomes without relying solely on formal authority.
- Sound judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and highly regulated environment.
- Comfort working with data, business documentation, and risk-related reporting to identify patterns, trends, and potential areas requiring additional attention.
- Shows curiosity and adaptability in learning and responsibility applying new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to reimagine how we work.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting risk management within mortgage, housing finance, banking, capital markets, or another regulated financial services environment.
- Experience working with enterprise or business-level risk frameworks, risk and control assessments, issue management, or risk reporting.
- Familiarity with the Single-Family mortgage lifecycle and the risk considerations that may arise across origination, servicing, credit, operations, counterparties, or related business processes.
- Experience using data and reporting tools to support risk analysis, monitoring, or management reporting.
Responsibilities
- Assess, analyze, and communicate business and operational risks that could affect the organization's reputation, safety, security, financial performance, or ability to meet business objectives.
- Support risk identification and evaluation activities within Single-Family Risk, including reviewing trends, issues, processes, and other information to identify potential areas of concern.
- Collaborate with business partners, risk professionals, and other stakeholders to understand risk drivers, evaluate potential impacts, and support appropriate risk responses.
- Contribute to risk monitoring, reporting, and escalation activities by developing clear, concise, and well-supported analyses and recommendations.
- Help identify opportunities to strengthen controls, processes, governance, and risk management practices; support implementation and follow-through on agreed actions.
- Review and synthesize qualitative and quantitative information from multiple sources to support informed risk decisions and management discussions.
- Track emerging risks and changes in the business or external environment and communicate relevant developments to stakeholders.
- Prepare materials, summaries, and presentations for risk leadership and stakeholder discussions, ensuring information is accurate, consistent, and easy to understand.
- Promote a strong risk culture by demonstrating sound judgment, constructive challenge, accountability, and effective partnership across teams.
Benefits
- Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being.
- Fannie Mae incentive program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
