Senior Associate, Capital Markets Finance – Forecasting & Analytics

Senior Associate, Capital Markets Finance – Forecasting & Analytics

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

As a valued colleague on our team, you will contribute to supporting the team in applying mathematical models, advanced tools or techniques (such as SAS, Python, and R), and financial industry knowledge to business or financial data, including model results. Your efforts will enable the team to analyze or report on business performance, solve business questions, or inform business decisions. Work may include developing models or prototypes to achieve these goals, but is not the core focus in the role. You will also support Capital Markets Finance forecasting and analysis, helping translate market, portfolio, and business drivers into financial insights and forward-looking expectations.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Senior Associate, Capital Markets Finance – Forecasting & Analytics role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Collaborate on processing or analyzing large amounts of data efficiently using advanced financial engineering tools and techniques.
• Determine customer's intended uses for a financial analysis or model.
• Conduct financial analysis or forecasting, which may include scenario or sensitivity analysis, stress testing, or attribution analysis.
• Support the development and analysis of financial forecasts, including evaluating key market, portfolio, and business assumptions and explaining changes in forecasted results.
• Execute models and/or interpret model results.
• Translate the results from the analysis or models for the customer into understandable conclusions.
• Analyze actual and forecasted financial performance, identify key drivers and trends, and communicate insights to Finance and Capital Markets stakeholders.
• Work directly with model builders to vet new models, suggest changes to existing models, or analyze model performance data.
• Perform data and systems analysis, validation, and regression testing.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences:

• 2 years of relevant experience
• Shows curiosity and adaptability in learning and responsibly applying new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to reimagine how we work

Desired Experiences:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent
• Experience in financial analysis, forecasting, financial planning and analysis, capital markets, or a related finance function.
• Knowledge of capital markets products, financial instruments, valuation concepts, or market risk and their impact on financial results.
• Experience analyzing financial results and explaining key forecast, actual, or period-over-period drivers to business partners and senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency working with large financial datasets and analytical tools such as Python, SAS, R, SQL, Excel, or similar tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex financial or quantitative analysis into clear business insights.

Target Pay Range

$109,000 - $142,000 a year

Benefits

For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote. 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.