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Finance - Financial Engineering

Fannie Mae

Finance - Financial Engineering

Washington, DC
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Company Description At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do makes an affordable home a reality and a difference in the lives of Americans. Every day offers compelling opportunities to modernize the nation's housing finance system while being part of an inclusive team using new, emerging technologies. Here, you will help lead our industry forward, enhance your technical expertise, and make your career.

    Job Description As a valued colleague on our team, you will contribute to supporting the team in 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 Finance - Financial Engineering - Senior 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:

    • Collaborate on 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.
    • Conduct 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 data and systems analysis, validation, and regression testing.

    Qualifications THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM Minimum Required Experiences

    • 2 years work experience
    • Strong written, verbal, and graphic communication skills to concisely communicate in a way that provides context, offers insights, and minimizes misinterpretation.
    • Experience with financial modeling and forecasting including cash flow modeling and valuation.
    • Demonstrated experience programming with R/Python in AWS cloud environment along with some experience with Tableau or other visualization software

    Desired Experiences

    • Bachelor degree or equivalent in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related STEM subject area or equivalent demonstrated experience.
    • Masters or MBA is well regarded but not required.
    • Experience in financial services/banking industry preferred

    SKILLS

    • 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
    • The group of skills related to Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
    • The group of skills related to Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc.
    • The group of skills related to Operational Excellence including improving and overseeing operations
    • Skilled in the graphical representation of information in the form of a charts, diagrams, pictures, and dashboards with programs and tools such as Excel, Tableau, or Power BI
    • The group of skills related to Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecasting, benchmarking, etc.
    • Experience identifying measures, or indicators of system performance, and the actions needed to improve or correct performance to achieve desired outcomes
    • Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing
    • Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
    • Experience in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data
    • Experience evaluating businesses, projects, budgets, and other financial entities or instruments to determine viability, stability, and performance
    • Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion
    • Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
    • 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
    • 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
    • Skilled in creating and managing databases with the use of relevant software such as MySQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB
    • The group of skills related to Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
    • Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process
    • Determining causes of operating errors and taking corrective action
    • The group of skills related to Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.

    TOOLS

    • Skilled in Java
    • Experience using Macros in Excel
    • Experience using JIRA
    • Experience using scheduling software to book events
    • Skilled in Python object-oriented programming
    • Skilled in using Intex
    • Skilled in Microsoft Teams
    • Skilled in Excel
    • Skilled in TOAD SQL database management tool
    • Skilled in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings, development, and networking platforms
    • Skilled in using Bloomberg Professional
    • Skilled in Tableau
    • Experience using R
    • Skilled in RStudio to develop programs in R
    • Skilled in SAS
    • Skilled in SQL

    Additional Information The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at careers.fanniemae.com. Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal appearance, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the application process, email us at careers_mailbox@fanniemae.com.

  • Industry
    Financial Services