Capital Markets Analyst (Hybrid Work Schedule)
At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you’ll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.
As part of Freddie Mac’s return to the office pilot, all employees, contingent workers and visitors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to be on-site unless they have an approved accommodation.
**This position is a hybrid work schedule, requiring 3 days in the office and 2 days remote**
Position Overview:
This program is a two-year full-time rotational program crafted to provide analysts with the opportunity to gain a unique experience working across a broad spectrum of Freddie Mac’s capital markets desks. The key focus is to develop future portfolio managers by providing real world training experiences with the goal of learning the full mortgage capital markets life cycle while also providing desk-specific knowledge. Analysts will get a chance to learn, be mentored by and work alongside best-in-class professionals on various desks to analyze and support our mission of Making Home Possible through a diverse set of transactions, trades, and strategies over four six-month rotations, with at least one rotation on a desk in each of the following two buckets:
Credit Risk:
- Understanding Freddie Mac’s Credit Risk portfolio through pricing up front credit risk, handling the non-performing loan portfolio and structuring and selling Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) transactions
Market Risk:
- Learning how Freddie Mac manages its market risk, in interest rate and debt capital markets, mortgage guarantee pipeline and the MBS securitization business
Our Impact:
Freddie Mac’s Single Family and Capital Markets Divisions are responsible for handling the ~$3.3 trillion mortgage guarantee and investment portfolios through secondary mortgage market activities such as asset-liability management, loan purchases, servicing transactions, securitization, debt issuance and credit risk transfer.
We provide the cash flow, financing and capital market expertise that allows the company to achieve its stated mission of providing liquidity to the house market and making home possible.
Your Impact:
In this position, you will be supporting portfolio manager activities by digging into data, projects or desk needs to improve desk functionality or produce analyses that will help the desks make more educated decisions. You will gain diverse perspectives working across desks; on one desk an analyst may be asked to help support and execute a transaction, whereas on another desk, you may be identifying trends through data work.
As you rotate, you will use the experience you have picked up to bring different, educated viewpoints to desks that embrace your knowledge and expertise. Throughout your rotations, you will learn not only how the Single Family and Capital Markets divisions work and interact with the rest of the firm, but you will pick up specific expertise about the desks you work on.
The program provides many levels of mentorship, through assigning buddies who are currently in or graduated the program, as well as providing program management and executive level mentors to help answer questions and provide feedback.
Through these rotations, analysts will build the following proficiencies and opportunities:
- Fixed income valuation and financial transaction analysis
- Expertise in the U.S. Economy
- Knowledge of primary and secondary mortgage financial system
- Quantitative abilities (e.g., Advanced Excel, SQL, SAS, Python, R)
- Professional networking skills and opportunities within the company and industry
- Mentorships to help guide your career
- Social community of analysts
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably but not only in Economics, Finance, Business, Engineering and/or Math
- Availability to begin full time employment in January 2023 or June 2023 dependent on graduation date
- Graduating in Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 graduation
- Some background and demonstrable interest in Finance, especially Capital Markets
Keys to Success in this Role:
- Ability to learn quickly and pick up new skills/concepts
- Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Microsoft Office skills required; Additional quantitative skills preferred
- Must be a great teammate and able to work collaboratively
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced trading floor environment
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.
Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Time-type:Full timeJob Category:Portfolio Mgmt & TradingFLSA Status:Non-ExemptFreddie Mac provides anticipated base salary ranges where required by law.