Lead Economist
Employer
- Fannie Mae
Job Description
Company Description
- Provide guidance and leadership to the team's research efforts, using public and company data to inform and quantify the impact of proposed or implemented policy changes. Conduct research to understand prior market, social, or other developments relevant to internal or external stakeholders using statistical and other recognized methods.
- Apply research best practices to the development and ongoing improvement of forecasts, indices, and surveys, including the evaluation of Fannie Mae's products and policies. Lead the team in applying processes and operationalizing statistical tools and models to provide analysis for downstream users (e.g. home price forecasts or indices, survey results, or other model implementations).
- Collaborate with the team, and provide guidance on, conducting analyses that provide valuable information to internal or external decision makers when setting company policies, developing business products, and improving the analytic assets of the company.
- Ensure the team is up to date on economic, market, and regulatory developments along with relevant academic and practitioner research.
- Translate findings for non-technical audiences, such as industry partners, business customers, or the media.
- 4+ years in relevant industry (approval or risk evaluation scorecards preferred)
- Expertise in using statistical methods, including developing and testing hypotheses, using experimental design, and running linear and logistic regressions
- Skilled in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data
- 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
- Skilled gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
- Skilled in the drafting of technical documentation to support both econometric analysis and system implementation
- The group of skills related to Programming including coding, debugging, and using relevant programming languages (Python, R and SAS)
- Ph.D Economics degree or equivalent
- Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
- Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process
- Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
- The group of skills related to Communication including communicating in writing or verbally and planning and distributing communication, etc.
- The group of skills related to Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc.
- The group of skills related to Business Insight including advising, designing business models, interpreting customer and market insights, forecasting, benchmarking, etc.
- The group of skills related to Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
- Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion
- Experience with cloud services (AWS) and ML algorithms
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Date Posted
810 days ago
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