SF Operational Risk - Risk Management - Senior Manager ID-11763

April 17, 2025

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Job Description

As a valued leader on our team, you will collaborate with leadership in the development and implementation of strategic plans for assessing and identifying potential risks that may threaten our reputation, safety, security, and/or financial success, as well as work with team members and leadership to communicate and collaborate with key stakeholders across the enterprise, and understand business objectives.

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Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences

6 years

Desired Experiences

Bachelor degree or equivalent
Prior experience managing people to include fostering an inclusive and productive team environment, giving feedback, facilitating meetings, and coaching and mentoring.
Candidates must possess strong secondary market experience
Experience working directly with process owners to anticipate, and manage operational risks effectively though the identification and documentation of risks and controls within processes
Experience on a business team with a focus on building, executing, and maintaining a strong set of risks and controls to reduce the risk of process failure.
Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, and developing risk mitigation activities
Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and building relationship networks
Ability to communicate and tell an appropriate and meaningful narrative to the business about existing and emerging risk

Skills

Demonstrated ability to successfully influence individuals and decision making across multiple levels and business areas or divisions of an organization.
Solves problems impacting their work that may or may not be clearly defined and require applying subject matter expertise to develop solutions
Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
Collective capabilities for leadership, including leading teams, giving feedback, facilitating meetings, and coaching and mentoring
Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
Business Insight including advising, and interpreting customer and industry insights
Experience in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data
Strong critical thinking abilities to understand, interpret and document complex business processes in alignment to internal policy, standards, procedures, and regulatory requirements
Keen communication skills (written and verbal) in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
Experience with organizational transformations, evolution of culture and team development and growth

Tools

Experience using Risk Works
Skilled in InfoPath
Experience using SharePoint
Skilled in Tableau
Skilled in Excel
Skilled in Microsoft Teams
Experience using DocuSign

Additional information

The hiring range for this role is set forth on each of our job postings located on Fannie Mae's Career Site. 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.

Education

Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

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