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 Lead Financial 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.
THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM
Minimum Required Experiences:
Desired Experiences:
- Bachelor degree or equivalent
- Experience with Reporting Tools - Power BI, Tableau
- Demonstrated understanding of data integration and ability to translate business requirements into technology requirements
- Ability to leverage internal tools including Tableau and AWS Redshift to deliver reporting, applying strong data architecture principles and intuitive data visualization design
- Experience with relational databases and working with large data sets and reporting tools
- Experience with Python, SQL, or other programming language preferred
Skills
- Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process
- Experience identifying measures, or indicators of system performance, and the actions needed to improve or correct performance to achieve desired outcomes
- 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
- Experience evaluating businesses, projects, budgets, and other financial entities or instruments to determine viability, stability, and performance
- Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecasting, benchmarking, etc.
- Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
- Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
- Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion
- Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
- The group of skills related to Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.
- Experience in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data
- The group of skills related to Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
- Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc.
- Expertise in using statistical methods, including: developing and testing hypotheses, using experimental design, and running linear and logistic regressions
- Business Process Management including business process modeling, process design and implementation, etc.
- Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing
- Operational Excellence including improving and overseeing operations
- 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
- Determining causes of operating errors and taking corrective action
- 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 forecasting, predicting, and monitoring financials with a focus on ratios, equities, and debts
- Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages
- Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
Tools
- Skilled in SAS
- Skilled in using Bloomberg Professional
- Skilled in Hyperio_x0008_n
- Skilled in SQL
- Skilled in Tableau
- Skilled in using Intex
- Skilled in Excel
- Skilled in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings, development, and networking platforms
- Skilled in RStudio to develop programs in R
- Skilled in Microsoft Teams
- Experience using scheduling software to book events
- Skilled in R Language Programming
- Skilled in Anaplan
- Skilled in Java
- Skilled in PeopleSoft
- Skilled in Python object-oriented programming
- Experience using JIRA
- Experience using Macros in Excel
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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 [email protected].
The hiring range for this role is set forth on each of our job postings located on Fannie Mae's Career Site. 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.
