Job Description As a valued colleague on our team, you will provide leadership and advice on the identification and assessment of potential risks that may threaten Fannie Mae's reputation, safety, security, and/or financial success. You will engage with key stakeholders across Single-Family and other divisions and your work will help strengthen and improve the risk and control environment of the company.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Lead Internal Auditor 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:

• Apply technical knowledge and expertise to lead internal audits and reviews across Fannie Mae’s Finance and Single-Family divisions. Use a risk-based approach to develop and adjust audit plans as appropriate and determine areas requiring additional analysis.

• Provide day-to-day project leadership ensuring projects are completed on-time and within scope and budget. Monitor team progress, manage project budgets, and provide technical guidance and on-going coaching to other Auditors.

• Collaborate with modeling and technology audit partners to define project scope and develop an integrated testing strategy.

• Identify opportunities to utilize data analytics and emerging technologies to increase efficiency and effectiveness in audits through data driven insights and full population testing.

• Conduct first-level review of work and documentation, leveraging guidance from Audit Management as needed. Review and finalize staff work papers and deliverables with Audit Management. Develop audit reports with Audit Management.

• Inspire and motivate team members to achieve results.

• Lead meetings with internal and external stakeholders to effectively communicate audit issues, results and project status.

• Build and maintain relationships with business partners. Provide advice and share Internal Audit knowledge with business partner managers and staff to strengthen governance, risk, and control environments.

• Engage in continuous risk assessments and monitoring of emerging and existing risks confronting Fannie Mae’s Finance and Single-Family divisions.

Qualifications THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experience

• 4 years of related professional experience

• CPA, CISA or CIA required

Desired Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Internal Audit, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, and/or Information Systems.

• 6 years of audit, risk management, or regulatory experience in a large and complex organization desired

• Ability to be flexible with changing priorities and able to manage multiple projects concurrently with minimal direction. Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion

• Experience working with people with a different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal.

• Experience with process, risk and control assessments, including evaluating the design adequacy and operating effectiveness of controls and identifying and assessing the risk impact of control gaps of operational and financial reporting processes.

• Experience providing credible challenge, both written and verbal, to management and stakeholder/customers.

• Experience communicating audit or risk assessment results, both written and verbal, to management and stakeholder/customers.

• Superior problem solving, critical thinking, and data analysis skills.

• Experience analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data.

• Influencing skills including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict.

• Relationship management skills including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, vendors, and building relationship networks.

• Skilled in information retrieval including fact gathering, conducting focus groups and interviews, and designing surveys.

• 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 in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand.

• Skilled in Microsoft Product Suite (MS Teams, Excel, SharePoint, Word, etc.)

• Skilled in Alteryx, SQL and/or Python for data analytics applications.

• Experience using Adobe Acrobat, SQL

Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal appearance, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the application process, email us at careers_mailbox@fanniemae.com.