Quantitative Analytics Professional

About the Role

Freddie Mac’s Single-Family Credit Analytics, Reporting and Decision Strategy group seeks creative, forward-thinking individuals who thrive in a team environment and are motivated by complex business problems. As a Quantitative Analytics Professional, you will ensure the reasonableness and consistency of statistical models, analytics, and methodologies used in decision-making for the Single Family guarantee business.

Responsibilities

• Oversee, document, and test new modeling frameworks for Single Family (SF) model enhancement.
• Review and ensure model tracking reports to the SF Acquisition division are concise, complete, and transparent.
• Provide mortgage modeling expertise, including insights into default and prepayment modeling frameworks.
• Ensure data quality by understanding data relationships and verifying accuracy.
• Assist with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and model governance processes.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in quantitative finance, statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Coursework and/or work experience applying predictive modeling techniques from finance, statistics, mathematics, data science, and computer programming to large datasets.
• 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 and/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.

Skills

• Intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and break down silos.
• Deep curiosity to learn about the latest trends in analytics and modeling.
• Ability to utilize data to inform strategy and direction.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an innovative, outside-the-box mindset.
• Ability to translate complex statistical models and methodologies into simple business terms.
• Strong leadership, planning, and communication skills.

Pay

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $105,000 – $157,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will depend on factors such as experience, skill set, internal pay equity, and other relevant qualifications.

Benefits

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package, including competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on the Careers site.