Senior Director - Single-Family Operational Risk Team - Business Risk Expert Leader

Fannie Mae; Great Falls Crossing (VA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Fannie Mae is seeking a Senior Director for their Single-Family Operational Risk Team, responsible for evaluating and managing potential risks impacting the organization. This role requires strong leadership and extensive experience in risk management, as well as the ability to navigate complex regulatory environments. The position offers a competitive salary and an opportunity to influence strategic decisions within a leading organization in the housing finance sector.

Benefits

Health Benefits

Life Insurance

Incentive Programs

Flexible Working Environment

Qualifications

• 8 years of leadership experience in Risk Management.
• Bachelor's degree required, Master's preferred.
• Experience in Operational Risk and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the identification of enterprise risks.
• Develop policies and procedures to mitigate risks.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve business objectives.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Leadership

Communication

Risk Management

Strategic Planning

Education

Bachelor's Level Degree

Master's Level Degree

Tools

RiskWorks

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Senior Director - Single-Family Operational Risk Team - Business Risk Expert Leader

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At Fannie Mae, the inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to impact the future of the housing industry while being part of a collaborative team thriving in an energizing environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access toaffordable housing finance.

Job Description

In this compelling leadership position, you will be accountable for assessing and identifying potential risks that may threaten our reputation, safety, security, and/or financial success, as well as communicate and collaborate with key stakeholders across the enterprise, and understand business objectives.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

Responsibilities

The SF Operational Risk - Risk Management - Senior Director 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:

• Oversee the team responsible for determining business areas that pose potential risks to the enterprise, and develop and establish processes to identify risks.
• Drive efforts to evaluate the impact of proposed risks to the enterprise, and create and implement risk policies and procedures.
• Oversee information monitoring and processes to reduce risk using rigorous analysis, and establish and implement updates and changes to the process.
• Oversee team efforts and develop processes to document resolutions and control guidelines.
• Develop and implement business strategies that will drive success in the face of shifting consumer behaviors and regulations.
  
  

Minimum Required Experiences

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• 8 years
  
  

Desired Experiences

• Bachelor degree or equivalent; Master degree preferred
• Risk related professional certifications preferred
• Experienced in leadership level skills related to Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecasting, benchmarking, etc.
• Collective capabilities for leadership, including hiring, leading teams, providing coaching and feedback, facilitating meetings, and coaching and mentoring.
• Deep understanding and execution of Risk Assessments including evaluating risks and controls, designing controls, conducting impact and risk assessments, identifying control gaps, providing recommendations to business on activities that satisfy gaps and remediate risk, etc.
• Experience helping an organization to plan and manage change in effort to meet strategic objectives in a dynamic, quickly changing environment
• Strong change management mindset and understanding of frameworks, willing to develop what is necessary to build foundational level components; and possessing the ability to continuously improve and evolve for the needs of the team and/or business
• Experience in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data
• Ability to work in an often undefined and ambiguous environment and determine appropriate actions/activities within function
• Extensive background in Operational Risk, Compliance Risk, Strategic Risk, and Reputational Risk (non-financial risk) and the ability to interpret frameworks and guidance to create actions that manage all components of risk types
• Skilled in creating visual concepts, creating content, and editing content by hand or with the help with computer software to communicate ideas and tell the appropriate story of risk at any level of leadership
• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
• Deep Relationship Management skills including managing and engaging partners and stakeholders, internal customers, and peers, building relationship networks, etc.
• Strong influencing skills including negotiating, developing messaging, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
• Robust set of skills in Communication including written, verbal, and presentations, development of communication plans and distributing communication, etc.
• Deep expertise in strategic planning including identify and selecting strategic options, identifying resources and needs to meet the defined objectives, and the ability to articulate to leadership and other stakeholders to gain buy-in and support for resource needs
• Extensive background with Governance and Compliance concepts and frameworks including creating policies, evaluating compliance, change management protocols, etc.
• Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand in a succinct but informative way
• Skilled in the graphical representation of information in the form of a charts, diagrams, pictures, and dashboards with programs and tools such as Excel, Tableau, or Power BI
  
  

Tools

• Experience using RiskWorks
• Skilled in InfoPath
• Experience using SharePoint
• Skilled in Tableau
• Skilled in Excel
• Skilled in Microsoft Teams
• Skilled in Visio
• Experience using DocuSign
• Skilled in Microsoft PowerPoint
  
  

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's Level Degree (Required), Master's Level Degree

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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

196000

to

264000

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

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