Business Analyst - Lead Associate

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 review, monitor, and analyze business data to solve problems and/or make recommendations to improve business performance, as well as identify opportunities for enhanced business efficiency and performance through data and technology.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Business Analyst - Lead Associate 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:

• Provide recommendations to the team to determine business needs through understanding business unit operations and mortgage ecosystem.
• Gather and evaluate data on business operations, human capital, resources and strategic business initiatives related to client engagement, market segmentation and portfolio transparency.
• Make recommendations on areas for improved business performance.
• Identify and make recommendations on solutions to improve business performance, strategic initiatives and reporting.
• Translate business analysis results for customers to empower data-driven decision making to help form and shape Single-Family strategy for Market Engagement.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Required Experiences:

• At least 4 years of relevant experience
• Skilled in SQL
• Experience using Salesforce, Tableau, Excel, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, JIRA and Power BI

Desired Experiences:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Experience and understanding of the mortgage process and industry
• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
• Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
• Skilled in using statistical methods, including: developing and testing hypotheses, using experimental design, and running linear and logistic regressions
• Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing
• Experience in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data
• Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages.
• Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecasting, benchmarking, etc.
• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process
• Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc.
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
• Skilled in documentation and database reporting for the purposes of analysis, data discovery, and decision-making with the use of relevant software such as Crystal Reports, Excel, or SSRS
• Skilled in the graphical representation of information in the form of a charts, diagrams, pictures, and dashboards with programs and tools such as Excel, Tableau, or Power BI
• Product Development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, etc.

SF Market Engagement - Business Analysis - Lead Associate

Target Salary Range: $107,000-$139,000

#LI - ML1

#LI - Hybrid

Qualifications

Education:
Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

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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 is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the company. If you need assistance using our online system and/or you need a reasonable accommodation related to the hiring/application process, please complete this form.

The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, 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. See more here.

Requisition compensation:
107000
to
139000

Client-provided location(s): Washington, DC

Job ID: Fannie-JR953

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-20T20:00:48