Internal Audit Risk Analyst Lead

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Job Description

As a valued colleague on our team, you will design, build, and support scalable analytics and machine learning solutions that strengthen risk identification, audit coverage, and continuous monitoring capabilities. This role blends hands‑on analytics development with structured risk management to ensure solutions are sustainable, explainable, and aligned with approved enterprise architecture and data governance standards.

You will lead the development of repeatable data pipelines, prepare and analyze complex datasets, deploy advanced analytics, and partner with audit, data, and technology teams to manage risks associated with expanding analytics and AI capabilities.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Internal Audit Risk Analyst Lead role offers the flexibility to make each day your own while working alongside colleagues who care about delivering meaningful, data‑driven assurance. In this role, you will:

• Design and build reusable ETL pipelines to stage, cleanse, and transform data for audit analytics and continuous monitoring
• Implement data quality validation checks and monitoring controls to support reliable analytics outcomes
• Apply approved architecture patterns when designing analytics and AI solutions supporting audit activities
• Develop, validate, and deploy advanced analytics and machine learning solutions that support risk‑based audit objectives.
• Design, develop and implement advanced, custom Generative AI solutions designed to drive efficiencies, increased coverage and insights across the Internal Audit process.
• Design and guide the implementation of those analytics solutions to ensure scalability, explainability, and compliance with enterprise data governance standards
• Partner with audit teams to frame audit hypotheses and co‑design advanced analytics that strengthen risk‑based testing and coverage
• Maintain visibility into analytics assets, dependencies, and lifecycle considerations to support sustainability and reuse
• Ensure analytics outputs are traceable, defensible, and aligned with risk mitigation objectives, including appropriate documentation and control considerations
• Lead discussions to identify systemic risks surfaced through data analysis and translate results for audit stakeholders
• Assess upstream and downstream integration impacts associated with solutions
• Coordinate data onboarding, secure access provisioning, and consumer contracts with relevant stakeholders and partners
• Support discussions and efforts focused on scaling analytics solutions across audit use cases, including reuse and deployment considerations

MINIMUM REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

•  4 years of relevant experience

• Curiosity and adaptability learning and responsibly applying new techniques, including artificial intelligence, to reimagine how we work

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.

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The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

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