Senior Director- Risk Identification and Insights

About the role

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview: The Senior Director, Risk Identification & Insights, is responsible for the enterprise risk identification and assessment. The position also performs cross-domain risk synthesis, and independent surveillance of financial and nonfinancial risk. The Senior Director leads this team and is accountable for connecting risk identification, risk surveillance, risk appetite, risk assessment, change management to inform risk escalation and reporting. This role requires fluency across both financial risk (market, credit, portfolio) and non-financial risk (operational, model and compliance risks) — the team’s core value is connecting signal across both domains, and the leader must be able to evaluate, challenge, and integrate work from specialists in each.

Our Impact: Freddie Mac’s Risk Appetite & Insights team is part of Enterprise Risk Management second-line function. It is responsible for enterprise risk identification, assessment, aggregation, appetite, reporting, cross-domain risk synthesis, and surveillance of emerging risk.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise risk identification and assessment program; facilitate the activity to ensure consistency across financial and nonfinancial risk domains.
• Lead the annual enterprise risk aggregation, consolidating top and emerging risks submitted across 1LOD divisions into a single enterprise-level view and recommend the enterprise’s material risks to the CRO.
• Direct the synthesis of risk identification, assessment, and independent surveillance work — financial and nonfinancial — into a connected enterprise risk insight view feeding both the annual aggregation and ongoing senior leadership reporting.
• Evaluate internal and external data‑driven insight before escalation: does the connected view hold up, is it distinguishable from noise, does it represent genuine risk convergence across domains rather than coincidence.
• Build and lead a team spanning methodology, financial risk insight, and nonfinancial risk insight.
• Represent the function to