Multifamily Capital Markets: Strategy & Analytics Associate

Freddie Mac; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Freddie Mac is seeking an exceptionally curious and analytical professional for the Multifamily Capital Markets team in McLean, VA. The role focuses on identifying opportunities, prioritizing initiatives, and delivering end‑to‑end improvements across pricing, risk, operations, and technology.

You will work with a Capital Markets leader, develop fact-based recommendations, build analytical models and lightweight Python prototypes, and communicate decisions through memos and presentations to drive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 2-4 years of experience in capital markets, financial services, portfolio management, securitization, quantitative analysis, business analysis, product development, initiative delivery, consulting, strategy, or related analytical fields.
• Familiarity with fixed income, mortgages, derivatives, hedging, credit-risk transfer, or asset‑liability management is beneficial but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data and working proficiency with Python, SQL, Excel.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities and problems with the greatest potential impact on the business.
• Create an integrated view across products, risks, economics, and Capital Markets functions.
• Improve transparency into business performance, risk, and management trade-offs.
• Move promising ideas from concept through implementation.
• Ensure important initiatives have clear ownership, decisions, and follow‑through.
• Gather and reconcile information, analyze financial, market, and operational data, build quantitative models, and identify gaps or conflicting conclusions.
• Write concise, decision‑ready memos and presentations that explain the issue, analysis, alternatives, economics, recommendation, and required actions.
• Translate agreed‑upon approaches into clear business requirements and implementation plans.
• Remain engaged through delivery while ensuring that the appropriate business or operating function owns the resulting capability.
• Develop analyses and Python prototypes when useful to test an idea, demonstrate an approach, or clarify business and technical requirements.
• Take ownership of issues that do not fit neatly within existing teams or processes and help drive them from initial question through implemented solution.

Skills

Python

SQL

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Advanced degree in finance/economics/quantitative fields

Job description

Freddie Mac is seeking an exceptionally curious and analytical professional for the Multifamily Capital Markets team in McLean, VA. The role focuses on identifying opportunities, prioritizing initiatives, and delivering end‑to‑end improvements across pricing, risk, operations, and technology.

You will work with a Capital Markets leader, develop fact-based recommendations, build analytical models and lightweight Python prototypes, and communicate decisions through memos and presentations to drive