Pricing Security Analytics Senior

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Are you curious and analytical Do you want to expand and refine your quantitative skills We need someone willing to learn the meta-mortgage game from origin to end. Someone to master analytic methods of collateral valuation and support evaluating Freddie Macs competitive position in the mortgage market. If you are determined self-motivated and persistent in the pursuit of understanding then apply today to our Costing Analytics Team!

Freddie Macs Pricing & Costing Analytics group within the Single-Family Division is seeking a Senior Pricing Security Analyst to work closely with a team dedicated to supporting both new and existing business initiatives/offerings pricing and valuation strategies. This role involves designing analytical approaches to effectively address complex business questions and scenario evaluations managing comprehensive data research analyses and preparation of detailed reports and presentations by analyzing and leveraging various very high- and high-risk corporate credit models.

• Our team is responsible for providing Pricing/Costing Analytics to support new business guarantee fee pricing decisions.

• Innovate based on market behaviors while efficiently analyzing mitigating and clearly defining credit risk and/or prepay risk.

• Evaluate the overall story and make decisions on the credit risk profile and/or borrower prepay behavior.

• Execute advanced costing/pricing analytics processes for existing and new offerings transactions and pricing strategies.

• Develop the costing analytics framework by analyzing quantitative models (credit default prepayment house prices interest rates) for new products/loans and the existing portfolio.

• Quantify Costing values using model outputs and other quantitative skills to analyze relative risk of each product within new acquisitions.

• Participate in model validation model testing challenge modelling approaches help review OGM metrics and establish model thresholds to reflect financial or business impacts.

• Maintain and streamline key costing tools updating them as necessary and providing testing evidence and documentation.

• Partner with others to improve infrastructure for a reporting and analytics hub/repository for use by costing and others.

• Work with pricing offerings costing and CRT personnel to identify appropriate analyses for questions issues or market developments.

• Execute third-party and proprietary tools to analyze economics and value of risk-share structures (recourse indemnification CE).

• Provide analysis of offerings ideas and transactions; monitor PLS and CRT market trends.

• Projects as assigned by management: Candidate will be responsible for various ad hoc and on-going requests. This may include governance support e.g. audit development of procedures records management or other needs as identified by management

• 5 years of relevant work experience.

• Degree in applied mathematics economics physics statistics data science or other quantitative field as well as strong background in computer science or econometrics.

• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with advanced data management tools and/or statistical tools (e.g. SAS and/or Python)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a structured deadlinedriven environment.

• Exceptional quantitative analytical and communication skills.

• Self-motivated proactive and results driven problem solver able to manage multiple priorities without heavy supervision

• Highly flexible and adaptable; able to thrive in ambiguous situations and fast paced environment.

• Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships across teams

• SAS or SQL or equivalent programming experience.

• Knowledge of Freddie Mac operations and the secondary mortgage market.

• Experience building or working with models

• Fixed-income knowledge.

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