Strategic Operational Risk Lead

Freddie Mac; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Freddie Mac seeks an Operational Risk Business Lead to provide independent oversight across divisions within the Enterprise Risk team. You will shape risk management practices, influence senior leaders, and advance Freddie Mac's risk culture through analytical thinking, problem-solving, and persuasive communication.

You will assess risk environments, review divisional risk profiles, coordinate across non-financial domains, and develop processes and tools for oversight.

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

Influence at all levels

Data-driven insights

Risk communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent)

Job description

Freddie Mac seeks an Operational Risk Business Lead to provide independent oversight across divisions within the Enterprise Risk team. You will shape risk management practices, influence senior leaders, and advance Freddie Mac's risk culture through analytical thinking, problem-solving, and persuasive communication.

You will assess risk environments, review divisional risk profiles, coordinate across non-financial domains, and develop processes and tools for oversight.