Operational Risk Lead — Enterprise Oversight & Strategy

Freddie Mac; Georgia; On-site; USD 126,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Freddie Mac is seeking an Operational Risk Business Lead to independently oversee divisions, ensuring risks are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled within established tolerances. You will build data-driven risk views, apply a robust monitoring framework, and influence executives while collaborating across non-financial risk domains to drive actionable improvements.

The role requires strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and persuasive communication to advance Freddie Mac's

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent work experience) and 8+ years of overall relevant experience with 5+ years in operational or compliance risk management.
• Proven ability to influence at all organizational levels, including executives, and unite teams toward common goals.
• Experience in process design and control assessment.
• Preferred experience in the secondary mortgage market, mortgage lending, or mortgage-related securities.
• Highly driven, results-oriented, and recognized as a “value partner” who proactively builds and leverages relationships internally and externally.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to articulate complex concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Deliver independent oversight of Freddie Mac divisions, ensuring operational risks are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled within established tolerances.
• Apply a robust monitoring framework to challenge and review risk practices.
• Aggregate and communicate independent, data-driven views of operational risk with a forward-looking perspective.
• Build influential relationships with business partners, becoming a trusted advisor and stakeholder in risk management activities.
• Independently assessing operational risk and control environments through quantitative and qualitative means.
• Review, support, and challenge divisional operational risk profiles, focusing on key drivers, trends, future outlook, and escalation points.
• Coordinate across all non-financial risk domains to develop a holistic risk perspective.
• Foster positive relationships with stakeholders, actively participating in risk discussions and supporting effective challenges to drive actionable outcomes.
• Implement and enhance processes, procedures, and tools that support operational risk oversight routines.
• Bringing a focus upon internal process re-engineering, with a view to making recommendations and enhancements to existing Risk processes where opportunities arise.
• Monitor activities and provide critical inputs for quarterly divisional risk profile reporting, highlighting significant and emerging risks, effective challenges, and first-line risk management strategies.

Skills

Operational risk

Influence at executives

Problem solving

Communication skills

Data-driven insights

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Job description

Freddie Mac is seeking an Operational Risk Business Lead to independently oversee divisions, ensuring risks are identified, measured, monitored, and controlled within established tolerances. You will build data-driven risk views, apply a robust monitoring framework, and influence executives while collaborating across non-financial risk domains to drive actionable improvements.

The role requires strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and persuasive communication to advance Freddie Mac's