Senior Risk Management Associate

The Company

U.S. Financial Technology (U.S. Fin Tech) is seeking an experienced Senior Risk Management Associate to join our team of talented professionals. This is a full-time remote opportunity.

U.S. Fin Tech built and operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the world, supporting the Uniform Mortgage-Backed Security (UMBS) of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Supporting 70% of the mortgage-backed securities in the market, U.S. Fin Tech provides best-in-class single-family issuance, bond administration, disclosure, and tax services. We support a broad portfolio of products for our clients with full lifecycle management.

Our market-leading, cloud-based, end-to-end platform executes transactions on an extraordinary scale which has bolstered liquidity in the secondary mortgage market, one of the largest and most important financial markets in the world. Our unique approach to securitization combines the best minds in financial services with the know-how, flexibility, and innovation of leading technologists.

Job Information

This role will report to the Sr. Director of Enterprise Risk Programs & Risk Intelligence to provide tactical execution of various ERM Programs and Risk Management Training Programs. The Associate role will assist the Sr. Director with managing Second Line of Defense (SLOD) risk governance function and annual ERM Plan development/documentation. The role will also participate in Operational Process mapping of key Issuance, Administration of MBS activities.

This role requires with demonstrated risk management experience in supporting cross-functional business areas and corporate stakeholders relative to effective and timely identification, analysis, remediation, management, and reporting of risk to various management levels and committees.

A successful candidate will have a collaborative work ethic/style, strong communication/presentation (verbal and written) and negotiation skills, and demonstrated knowledge and experience in industry best practices and standards relative to Enterprise Risk Management and knowledge in multiple risk disciplines.

Key Job Functions

• Collaboratively assist in the development, promoting, and tracking of ERM related projects and programs implementations, process mapping leveraging project management professional (PMP) methodologies and practices.

• Assist leadership in the planning, execution, tracking and reporting on ERM related programs, projects, and initiatives, with all impacted business and corporate stakeholders, to completion.

• Develop project/program plans of action, including tasks/deliverables, milestones, and definitive timelines.

• Participate in periodic meetings with impacted business/corporate stakeholders, and others to ensure accurate, comprehensive, and timely minutes, tracking and reporting on ERM tasks, issues and concerns relative to implementation of programs, initiatives, and projects, through to completion.

• Ensure records management of ERM programs is maintained.

• Work directly with front-line management up to and including Executives to assist with program, initiative and/or project statuses.

• Escalate material risks, issues, or challenges to ERM leadership, impacted stakeholders, and their management, as necessary, and coordinate timely awareness and resolution of impediments to keep initiatives on schedule.

• Interact with Internal Audit, Compliance, and FHFA regulators to ensure open communication and transparency.

• Develop project management methodologies, metrics, reporting and systems, as appropriate, to quantify and accurately monitor progress.

• Provide quality assurance to reporting, artifacts and assertions.

• Parter with the business to develop plans to mitigate risk and program…