Senior Enterprise Operational Risk
Freddie Mac
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dallas • Texas • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $98,000 - $148,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Support Enterprise Operational Risk Leads and Directors in executing operational risk practices, including participation in material non-financial risk assessments, development of key risk indicators and other metrics, and contributing to the Enterprise non-financial risk profile.
- Partner with first line risk and control teams to help embed risk practices, define and operationalize risk metrics, promote transparency, and facilitate timely risk identification and mitigation.
- Develop and maintain operational risk templates, job aids, and documentation, including standardized metric definitions, thresholds, and reporting guidance, to support consistent application across divisions.
- Perform RCSA quality reviews and support thematic risk assessments, leveraging quantitative analysis and trend data to identify emerging risks or control weaknesses.
- Coordinate with Enterprise Risk Management (second line) to support alignment of governance of risk metrics, alignment of methodologies, data standards and reporting expectations across the enterprise.
- Contribute to risk aggregation reporting, data-driven trend analysis, and preparation of materials for escalation to governance forums, translating analytics into clear decision-ready insights.
- Support the design and enhancement of risk tools, reporting, and technology solutions with a focus on data quality, metric automation, and analytical usability.
- Assist in the development of metrics, templates, and governance routines to standardize reporting practices.
- Participate in risk culture initiatives, training, and communications to enhance awareness and accountability and effective use of metrics and analytics in risk management.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and simplification of risk practices, tools, and governance routines including rationalization of metrics and enhancements of analytical insights.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in operational and/or compliance risk management, enterprise risk management, or related fields within financial services.
- Experience working collaboratively across teams and supporting cross-functional initiatives.
- Working knowledge of risk frameworks (RCSA, control frameworks, monitoring, etc.), metric governance practices and regulatory expectations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to clearly document and explain risk concepts, working with quantitative data, reporting tools or risk systems, to support decision-ready risk insights.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business and risk objectives into measurable metrics with clear definitions, documentation and reporting standards.
- Experience supporting the development, execution, or enhancement of risk frameworks and practices, including designing, defining or governing risk metrics.
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience, preferred
Benefits
- competitive compensation
- market-leading benefit programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
operational risk managementcompliance risk managemententerprise risk managementRCSAquantitative analysisrisk metricsdata analysisreporting standardsmetric governancerisk frameworks
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunication skillscollaborationtransparencycontinuous improvementtrainingaccountabilitydecision-makingdocumentation