Operational Resilience Business Continuity Senior

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it's at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview:

Are you a self-starter with a passion for operational resiliency? Do you thrive applying your critical thinking skills to solve complex problems? Can you envision yourself on a team that shares your influencer mindset in support of a very important mission? Freddie Mac makes home possible for millions of people in the United States. Being resilient is core to delivering our mission to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability to the U.S. housing market. Freddie Mac's Operational Resilience (OR) strategy has been built with this in mind, to achieve repeatable, predictable capabilities that can demonstrate agility and sustainability during disruptive events and continue to operate critical processes within defined risk tolerance limits.

Freddie Mac's Operational Resiliency Team protects corporate assets from significant business interruptions by optimizing risk management and building operational resiliency. The Operational Resiliency Senior Analyst will work with the Resiliency Testing Manager and provide analysis, assessment, advisory, guidance and support to Freddie Mac divisions to enhance the firm's preparedness posture. This onsite position in McLean performs a myriad of duties that include but are not limited to analyzing, assessing, and reporting on business continuity plan testing activities.

Our Impact:

Strengthen the firm's overall resiliency posture by evaluating/documenting and testing enterprise operational resiliency capabilities which establish as stable and sound platform designed to minimize disruption to business operations.

Your Impact:

• Collaborate with divisional and enterprise teams to establish, maintain and mature program processes and practices to ensure that the program aligns with industry standards and meets regulatory requirements.
• Educate and train business areas on designing, developing, executing, and evaluating exercises and tests in alignment with business continuity objectives.
• Drive efforts across the organization to validate the effectiveness of business continuity strategies and plans.
• Effective relationship management to provide guidance and direction to business process-owners to ensure deliverables consistently remain in accordance with program quality expectations.
• Conduct a comprehensive assessment to ascertain the program effectiveness and report results to management stakeholders, while identifying opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.

The individual should bring relevant experience operating within a complex organization that requires interacting with and influencing a wide range of business and technology stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with 5 years of overall relevant working experience
• 3+ years of experience working with or within a business continuity, business resiliency, or operational resiliency environment
• Understanding of Operational Resiliency and implications across the industry
• Understanding of IT environments; experience with linkage between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery is a plus
• Experience with Operational Resiliency software tools (e.g., Fusion, Archer) preferred
• CBCP or ABCP certifications preferred

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Strong communication skills and ability to present (orally and written).
• Excellent collaborator and ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to multi-task and work effectively to meet frequent deadlines.
• Critical thinker and ability to connect the dots.
• High level of energy, creativity, flexibility, and dedication.
• A willingness to focus and drive toward finding the best solution for the business partner.

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status: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 $96,000 - $144,000 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.