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What Freddie Mac Has to Offer:
Freddie Mac makes home possible for millions of families and individuals by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Benefits include:
Job Type
Full Time
Job Details
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. Position Overview:Are you looking to apply your extensive knowledge of Cybersecurity Risk to the financial services industry? We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Risk Senior Manager with a proven understanding of the primary and secondary mortgage business, and a focus on third party risk management. You will implement and execute cyber and information risk oversight and control activities for the Single-Family division, collaborate with division leaders to analyze third party cyber security posture, assess risk, design, and implement appropriate security measures, coordinate remediation efforts, and consolidate the division’s information risk profile! Our Impact: Our third party cyber/privacy risk management team embedded within the business provides proactive and reactive measures to manage cyber threats and crises effectively, by monitoring analyzing, identifying, and reporting risks on business operations, data integrity and divisional reputation, and then activating incident response plans as appropriate. Your Impact:
- Effective incident response engagement, efforts
- Effective vulnerability management, threat intelligence, analysis and risk assessment
- Implement and execute comprehensive information security strategies and protocols.
- Effective leadership, ownership, risk management and collaboration across the board
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess and mitigate risks.
- Stay abreast of the latest cybersecurity threats, trends, and best practices.
- Investigate technological operational events and incidents.
- Conduct regular risk analysis, assessments, and audits to identify vulnerabilities and gaps in existing third-party security risk and controls, and develop remediation plans as needed.
- Provide support to the team and leadership.
- Foster a culture of information security awareness and accountability.
- Collaborate effectively with partners, stakeholders, and the team.
- Minimum 10 years of experience working in and/or with information security, technology, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, Cybersecurity tools and technologies, and cyber risk with a focus on the financial services industry, preferably in the mortgage sector.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, or a related field; advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CRISC) preferred, with knowledge of NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Cybersecurity framework.
- Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles, practices, and technologies, including network security, endpoint protection, encryption, and identity and access management.
- Knowledge of security policy/ manuals and other guiding policy documents
- Understanding of the primary and secondary mortgage business, including regulatory requirements, privacy protocols and industry standards (e.g., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, CFPB).
- Perform analysis of third-party Cyber Security, Privacy review findings
- Perform a security risk impact analysis and ensure security control accuracy and completeness.
- Proven record of managing team, performance, and priorities
- Proven record of accomplishment of implementing and executing risk strategies and protocols in sophisticated, highly regulated environments.
- Superb interpersonal presentation, communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong collaboration, communication skills with the ability to build connections, relationships across the organization, result driven and effective.
- Highly motivated and energetic self-starter with solid organizational and time management skills
- Execution focused with proven initiative and personal accountability, and ownership.
- Critical thinking skills with a problem-solving mentality
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills
- Thinking and acting strategically
- Ability to manage priorities.
- Have passion for driving business, culture, and technology change in dynamic and complex operating environments.
About the Company
Freddie Mac
Mclean, VA, United States
Careers with Impact 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,... Read more