Quantitative Analytics Professional

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Position Overview:

Do you want to fast track your career? Are you a highly organized professional with strong quantitative and analytical skills? Are you looking for an opportunity to put your technical skills to use working on advanced modeling challenges?

Freddie Mac’s Enterprise Risk Management Division is currently seeking a Quantitative Analytics Professional to perform all tasks related to model validation to evaluate and manage model risks associated with company’s models.

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Our Impact:

• Create and implement a complete model validation within the Enterprise Model Risk group

• Provide effective challenges on existing models and methodologies

• Enhance the enterprise model risk governance process

Your Impact:

• Conduct technical validation of Freddie Mac models, including writing a detailed independent model validation report

• Follow model risk standards and procedures

• Perform explanatory analysis and research, present results to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Work collaboratively with partners to ensure effective management of model risk enterprise wide.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in quantitative finance, 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.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Strong modeling and analytics skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong programming skills (Python)

• Ability to develop mutually beneficial relationships inside and outside of the department

• Deep curiosity to learn about new things with critical thinking

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

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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 $101,000 - $151,000 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.