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.

Job Description

As a Lead Associate on the Enterprise Operational Risk team, you will provide expert risk guidance and help assess and identify potential risks that could affect Fannie Mae's reputation, safety, security, operational resilience, or financial success. You will partner with stakeholders across the enterprise to understand business objectives, evaluate risk exposure, and support informed business decisions.

The Impact You Will Make

• Lead and guide risk assessments to identify operational risks and their potential implications for the enterprise.
• Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand business objectives, processes, and emerging risk considerations.
• Guide analyses, assessments, and reports that identify areas of potential risk exposure and evaluate proposed risks and their impact.
• Monitor risk information, processes, and controls using rigorous analysis to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities to reduce risk.
• Document risk resolutions, control guidelines, and recommendations that support consistent risk management practices.
• Guide team reviews of business strategies and translate risk insights into practical recommendations as consumer behaviors and regulatory expectations evolve.
• Contribute to an enterprise risk culture grounded in sound judgment, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Minimum required experience

• 4 years of relevant professional experience.
• Shows curiosity and adaptability in learning and responsibly applying new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to reimagine how we work.

Desired experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in operational risk, enterprise risk management, risk assessment, controls, governance, compliance, audit, or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk information into clear business recommendations.
• Experience collaborating across functions and guiding work in a complex, highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

Active Directory (AD), Active Directory (AD), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Atlassian JIRA, Authentication Management, Backup and Recovery (Software), Business Insight Skills, Business Process Management Skills, Calendar and Scheduling Tools, Cleaning and Transforming Data, Cloud Technology, Collaborating Cross-Functionally, Communicating in Technical Writing, Communicating Technical Information, Communication, Configuration Management (CM), Conflict Resolution, Coordination, Customer and Market Insights, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), CyberArk, Cybersecurity Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Analysis Interpretation {+ 60 more}

Education:

Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

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For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.

Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company. If you need assistance using our online system and/or you need a reasonable accommodation related to the hiring/application process, please complete this form.

The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

Requisition compensation:

123000

to

161000