Financial Engineering - Lead Associate

Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to impact the future of the housing industry while being part of an inclusive team thriving in an energizing, flexible environment. Here, you’ll have access to continuous learning, grow your career, and help create access to fair, affordable housing finance.

Job Description

As a valued colleague on our team, you will provide expert advice and guidance to the team responsible for applying mathematical models, advanced tools or techniques (such as SAS, Python, and R), and financial industry knowledge to business or financial data, including model results.Your efforts will enable the team to analyze or report on business performance, solve business questions, or inform business decisions. Work may include developing models or prototypes to achieve these goals, but is not the core focus in the role.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
The SF CFO - Financial Engineering - Lead Associate role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Develop approach to processing or analyzing large amounts of data efficiently using advanced financial engineering tools and techniques. Determine customer's intended uses for a financial analysis or model.
• Lead financial analysis or forecasting, which may include scenario or sensitivity analysis, stress testing, or attribution analysis.
• Execute models and/or interpret model results. Translate the results from the analysis or models for the customer into understandable conclusions.
• Work directly with model builders to vet new models, suggest changes to existing models, or analyze model performance data.
• Perform advanced data and systems analysis, validation, and regression testing.

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

• 4 years

Desired Experiences

• Bachelor degree or equivalent

Skills

• Experience identifying measures, or indicators of system performance, and the actions needed to improve or correct performance to achieve desired outcomes
• Experience forecasting, predicting, and monitoring financials with a focus on ratios, equities, and debts
• The group of skills related to Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages
• Expertise in using statistical methods, including: developing and testing hypotheses, using experimental design, and running linear and logistic regressions
• Determining causes of operating errors and taking corrective action
• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process
• The group of skills related to Business Process Management including business process modeling, process design and implementation, etc.
• Skilled in creating and managing databases with the use of relevant software such as MySQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB
• Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion
• Expertise in service management concepts for networks and related standards such as ITIL practices or SDLC
• Experience defining and managing changes to documents, code, computer programs, websites, and other files to enable collaboration and ensure teams are working from the latest version
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
• The group of skills related to Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
• Skilled in documentation and database reporting for the purposes of analysis, data discovery, and decision-making with the use of relevant software such as Crystal Reports, Excel, or SSRS
• Skilled in the integrated management of main business processes with the help of ERP technology like SAP ERP, Business Objects, or PeopleSoft
• Experience evaluating businesses, projects, budgets, and other financial entities or instruments to determine viability, stability, and performance
• The group of skills related to Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
• Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
• The group of skills related to Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecasting, benchmarking, etc.
• Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing