What are the responsibilities and job description for the Internal Audit Associate (Hybrid- 3 Days in Office) position at Freddie Mac?
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.
Job Description
We will accept applications for this position until 10/4.
Position Overview:
Are you looking for an inclusive company culture to help prepare you for a successful career? The Internal Audit division within Freddie Mac is searching for collaborative and creative individuals to join our organization.
Freddie Mac is a dynamic environment with constant change, enabling employees to grow with us through a wide variety of experiences and responsibilities. Internal Audit employees at Freddie Mac have the opportunity to actively work on real-world projects while developing skills for the future and providing broad exposure to Freddie Mac's outstanding role in the mortgage industry!
Our Impact:
Freddie Mac’s Internal Audit division plays a meaningful role in the company’s approach to managing risk by providing independent, objective, and value-added assurance of risk management, governance, and controls.
Your Impact:
The Internal Audit Associate will develop and execute procedures to extract, transform, load, analyze and visualize data for audit activities. Audit activities include, but not limited to, audit planning, fieldwork (e.g., substantive control testing), reporting, continuous auditing, business monitoring, and issue follow-ups. The DA Professional will help brainstorm, develop and execute analytics use cases to test management's risk management activities (e.g., controls), or develop and execute automated tools using computer science techniques to increase assurance and reduce the audit footprint. The DA Professional will develop and execute descriptive analytics on large samples or populations and begin to use advanced data quality assessments (e.g., outlier detection, assess distributional shifts in data, how clients deal with missing data) on large data using tools such as R, Python, SAS, and software such as Tableau to visualize data and provide audit insight.
Qualifications:
The Internal Audit Associate typically has a degree in economics, statistics, data science, analytics, IT, computer science, mathematics, finance, or related STEM disciplines and demonstrates intermediate to advanced programming skills in at least one programming language.
Keys to Success in this Role:
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.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.
Time-type:Full time
FLSA Status:Non-Exempt
Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $55,000 - $83,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.
Job Description
We will accept applications for this position until 10/4.
Position Overview:
Are you looking for an inclusive company culture to help prepare you for a successful career? The Internal Audit division within Freddie Mac is searching for collaborative and creative individuals to join our organization.
Freddie Mac is a dynamic environment with constant change, enabling employees to grow with us through a wide variety of experiences and responsibilities. Internal Audit employees at Freddie Mac have the opportunity to actively work on real-world projects while developing skills for the future and providing broad exposure to Freddie Mac's outstanding role in the mortgage industry!
Our Impact:
Freddie Mac’s Internal Audit division plays a meaningful role in the company’s approach to managing risk by providing independent, objective, and value-added assurance of risk management, governance, and controls.
Your Impact:
The Internal Audit Associate will develop and execute procedures to extract, transform, load, analyze and visualize data for audit activities. Audit activities include, but not limited to, audit planning, fieldwork (e.g., substantive control testing), reporting, continuous auditing, business monitoring, and issue follow-ups. The DA Professional will help brainstorm, develop and execute analytics use cases to test management's risk management activities (e.g., controls), or develop and execute automated tools using computer science techniques to increase assurance and reduce the audit footprint. The DA Professional will develop and execute descriptive analytics on large samples or populations and begin to use advanced data quality assessments (e.g., outlier detection, assess distributional shifts in data, how clients deal with missing data) on large data using tools such as R, Python, SAS, and software such as Tableau to visualize data and provide audit insight.
Qualifications:
The Internal Audit Associate typically has a degree in economics, statistics, data science, analytics, IT, computer science, mathematics, finance, or related STEM disciplines and demonstrates intermediate to advanced programming skills in at least one programming language.
Keys to Success in this Role:
- Applies critical thinking when drafting analytics procedures and executing audit activities
- Advanced coding skills in Python, R, SAS or other programming languages
- Intermediate knowledge of data analytics approaches and demonstrates use of analytics to evaluate management's controls
- Proactively informs others of progress and results of projects and analytics.
- Experienced in communicating and conveying analytics insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Solid oral and written communication skills
- Good quantitative, empirical analysis, and research skills
- Proactively informs others of progress and results of projects and analytics
- Willingness to pursue certifications or a graduate degree in business analytics, data science, computer science, IT, or a STEM field.
- Reviewers rarely identify thematic/repeated significant testing or documentation gaps.
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.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.
Time-type:Full time
FLSA Status:Non-Exempt
Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $55,000 - $83,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.
Salary : $55,000 - $83,000
