Mid-Level IT Project Manager (JIRA, Service Now) | McLean VA

Project Manager/Model Risk

Freddie Mac is building a culture based on modern software delivery practices to support the secondary mortgage market through rapid technology and best practice innovation.

Freddie Mac’s Financial Engineering team is seeking a Project Manager/Model Risk professional to assist in managing the delivery planning and model governance of a diverse portfolio of analytical projects to internal customers in the Investments & Capital Markets division. This challenging and rewarding position gives you an opportunity to work with various technical teams, senior leadership, and business users.

As a Governance Project Manager, you are part of a team that supports a wide variety of internal customers and model applications. You will help model governance interfacing with EMR, reporting and delivery planning of various model applications in the Financial engineering team.

Note: All candidates must be either a US Citizen or hold a Permanent Resident Card holders.

Our Impact:

We are the first line of defense team for Financial Engineering under the Investments & Capital Markets. We support our team/division on all matters and activities related to Data Governance and Management. We also provide analytics and data around team project management to the senior leadership and all our business partners.

Core Responsibilities:

• Understand and support the Lifecycle of model application Governance Process from planning to implementation
• Maintain and implement model risk governance framework within the regulatory environment and maintain all governance documents. Build and maintain data quality reporting.
• Maintenance and management of application lifecycle deliverables, documentation and process templates. Planning and conducting meetings and sending follow-up communications, minutes.
• Roll out the I&CM data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality, issue management and the protection of data through appropriate procedures and controls
• Identify, assess and design remediation action plans for data issues and monitor their progress to completion
• Analyze risks related to data, monitor key indicators, and produce monthly risk governance reports and materials for management.
• Support multiple, simultaneous projects in a rapid development environment involving different types of technical and business partners.
• Track and prepare senior management reporting documents, take ownership and follow-up with relevant stakeholders.
• Develop project plans, including project schedule and timeline, and track projects according to schedule. Accurately assess, manage, and report risks and issues.
• Demonstrate ownership of problems, issues, and requests from start to finish – facilitate appropriate handoffs and stakeholder engagement while ensuring resolution.
• Maintain customer relationships to ensure the project implementation and prioritization fulfills business objectives. Help business and technology adapt to changing priorities swiftly and efficiently.
• Develop an integrated understanding of business needs and technical implementation details sufficient to interface between business and technical teams as needed and help synthesize requirements and constraints from both parties.
• Coordinate the user acceptance testing process for new features including customer satisfaction and governance process completion

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2-3+ years of work experience
• Understanding of software development life cycle, knowledge of Databases and any programming language.
• Regulatory or risk management experience, understanding of models and model applications is preferred.
• Demonstrated exceptional ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing. Demonstrates excellent organizational skills and customer relationship management skills.
• Results-driven, detail-oriented, curious self-starter who quickly grasps new technical and business concepts.
• Skilled in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) discipline
• Experience with model risk management and regulatory environment.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or similar data visualization software and wiki markup.