Risk and Modeling Lead Analyst

Posted:
1/16/2026, 6:04:15 AM

Location(s):
Washington, District of Columbia, United States ⋅ Texas, United States ⋅ Plano, Texas, United States ⋅ District of Columbia, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Finance & Banking

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

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 valued colleague on our team, you will help oversee Fannie Mae's Single-Family acquisitions by analyzing the risk exposure across current and future initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and contributing to recommendations that optimize portfolio composition and key business metrics while balancing broader business needs. You will also provide risk monitoring and review support across the organization, coordinate risk mitigation activities, and offer detailed portfolio analysis assistance to partner groups.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Risk and Modeling Lead Analyst 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:

  • Help in managing the design, testing, and implementation of an acquisition portfolio optimization tool that provides a holistic evaluation of key SF metrics.

  • Conduct research to identify emerging risks, including market dynamics, regulatory developments, and macroeconomic trends, and assess their potential impact on the SF portfolio.

  • Produce comprehensive analysis of the entire acquisition portfolio for senior management by working cross-functionally with all the SF organization to prepare a monthly report.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Required Qualifications:

  • 4 years of industry experience

  • Knowledge of portfolio management and optimization frameworks

  • Proficiency and experience in Tableau, SQL, Domino, and/or other programming tools (R/Python)

  • Experience analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data

Desired Experiences

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

  • Mortgage industry experience strongly preferred, particularly within the Single-Family mortgage process

  • Familiar with monitoring, forecasting and measuring risk, conducting risk assessments and identifying gaps in existing risk monitoring frameworks

  • Skilled in the graphical representation of information in the form of tables, charts, diagrams, and dashboards; ability to present information in an engaging, easy to understand manner

  • Able to apply complex solutions to financial analysis or forecasting, which may include scenario or sensitivity analysis, stress testing, or attribution analysis

SF Risk - Analytics and Modeling - Lead Associate

Target Pay Range: 123,000 - 161,000 a year
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Qualifications

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