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Project Mgmt Senior
Freddie Mac
Mc Lean, VA, United States
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The Strategic Delivery group is responsible for identifying, evaluating, designing, developing, and implementing new or enhanced product offerings, concepts and business or technology projects that introduce efficiencies in the mortgage origination process to build novel applications and make Freddie Mac an industry leader in the secondary mortgage market.
This role will ensure alignment between project activities and approved scope and negotiate with the business and other stakeholders on changes to scope.
Your work falls into two primary categories:
Project Management & Analysis
• Leverage mortgage experience to ensure that requirements / use cases including Non-functional (performance, operational and transitional) are fully developed, communicated and understood.
• Work with different teams to identify opportunities for efficiency in project planning and execution to provide the business with solutions at the lowest cost while balancing risk appropriately.
• Work with business partners to document and understand requirement needs and challenge the team to create inspiring solutions.
• Work with project teams and stakeholders to ensure that business requirements gaps or issues are resolved in a transparent and timely manner.
• Rapidly mobilize resources to address risks and issues identified during the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrate ownership of problems, issues, or requests from start to finish. Facilitate appropriate handoffs, but track the item through resolution. Escalate proposed or actual solutions that do not adequately resolve the problem or satisfy the stated need.
• Effectively support assigned efforts with the use of standard project management tools, including project work plans, issue logs, status reporting and the facilitation and documentation of effective meetings
• Work independently while driving and managing assignments from concept through deployment/launch.
• Leverage mortgage experience to categorize project risks and identify and mitigate new risks.
Qualifications
• At least 5 plus years of business analysis experience in the mortgage industry. * MUST HAVE MORTGAGE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE to be considered.
• Bachelor’s degree or commensurate mortgage industry experience.
• Experience in the primary/secondary mortgage market, preferably underwriting
• Ability to rapidly learn key business design concepts of given project being developed and internal project tools and project management methodology / related processes.
• Ability to analyze, document, develop and manage complex business processes, think analytically and solve problems.
• Ability to work collaboratively with key internal stakeholders, external customers, external stakeholders and matrixed teams.
• Liaison between the business area customer/user, testing groups and development groups to ensure that scope items for a release are accurately implemented and tested from the business perspective.
• Project management experience using standard project management tools; collecting, writing and maintaining business requirements; maintaining action item trackers, issue and risks logs
• Strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to develop and deliver presentations to multiple types of audiences and ability to interact cross-functionally and drive both business and technical discussions.
• Proficient in Excel, Powerpoint and Visio
Keys to Success:
• Self-starter / independent thinker: demonstrated ambition to take on new roles with increasing responsibility with limited guidance and direction from management
• Proven track record of driven, results-oriented, creative and nimble problem-solving capabilities and a willingness to do “whatever it takes” to deliver business value quickly.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, rapidly changing business environment and manage multiple tasks.
• Highly organized and detailed oriented.
Key Competencies:
• Partnership: Build trust and strong partnerships through my own and my team’s actions
• Drive for Execution: Treat challenges as obstacles to overcome, not excuses
• Customer Focus: Seek and use data and feedback to enhance customer outcomes