What you'll doThe Senior Data Analyst serves as a trusted partner to Mortgage Partnership Finance (MPF) leadership by transforming complex mortgage and business data into actionable insights. This role supports strategic decision-making through in-depth portfolio analysis, risk monitoring, performance measurement, forecasting, and data-driven recommendations that enhance the effectiveness of the Bank's national whole loan mortgage purchase program.
How you'll make an impact- Identify emerging trends, portfolio risks, and business opportunities through advanced analysis of mortgage performance and operational data, enabling proactive management of the MPF program.
- Develop scalable analytical solutions, dashboards, and performance measurement frameworks that support strategic decision-making by senior management and external stakeholders.
- Deliver actionable insights and recommendations that improve portfolio performance, strengthen risk oversight, and enhance business outcomes.
What you can expectMortgage Portfolio Analytics & Business Insights
- Lead the development of portfolio monitoring frameworks and perform advanced analyses to assess volume, credit performance, operational effectiveness, loan quality, and emerging risks across the MPF portfolio.
- Analyze large, complex mortgage, financial, and operational datasets to identify trends, evaluate portfolio performance, assess risk exposures, and support strategic initiatives.
- Conduct ad hoc and exploratory analyses to address evolving business questions and provide actionable recommendations to leadership.
Reporting & Visualization
- Design and maintain executive-level dashboards, scorecards, and visualizations that communicate complex analytical findings in a clear and compelling manner.
- Develop reporting solutions that provide timely visibility into portfolio performance, operational metrics, PFI activity, and key risk indicators.
- Present analytical findings and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders, translating technical results into business insights.
Data Management & Automation
- Develop automated data analyses, reporting solutions, and analytical workflows that improve efficiency, scalability, and data reliability.
- Extract, transform, validate, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources to support business and regulatory reporting.
- Establish and maintain data quality standards, validation controls, and governance practices to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of analytical outputs.
- Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies, advanced analytics, and automation to improve business processes and decision support capabilities.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Risk, Finance, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Member Services, and Mortgage Operations to address business needs and improve processes.
- Foster a collaborative, data-driven culture by sharing knowledge, and promoting analytical best practices to junior analysts and interns.
- Stay current on mortgage industry developments, housing finance trends, regulatory changes, analytical methodologies, and emerging technologies.
What you'll bring- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Business Analytics, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
- 4+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, financial analysis, or a related analytical discipline.
- Direct experience analyzing performance and risk of mortgage portfolios, mortgage-backed securities, or housing finance programs is strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving capabilities with exceptional attention to detail.
- Experience translating large, complex datasets into actionable business insights and recommendations.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect analytical work to organizational objectives and strategic priorities.
- Intellectual curiosity with a desire to understand underlying business drivers and root causes.
- Advanced SQL skills, including experience querying, transforming, validating, and analyzing large datasets in a business and professional environment are required.
- Advanced dashboarding and data visualization skills, including experience with Tableau, Power BI, or similar business intelligence tools, are strongly preferred.
- Experience using analytical and statistical programming tools such as Python, R, SAS, or similar platforms is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, or process automation techniques is preferred.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word is required.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and listening skills.
- Experience preparing senior management-level presentations and data-driven business recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build credibility and influence decisions through objective analysis.
- Self-motivated and collaborative, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
The PerksAt FHLBank Chicago, we believe in rewarding our high performing workforce. We offer a highly competitive compensation and bonus package, and access to a comprehensive benefits program designed to meet the needs of our employees. Our retirement program includes a 401(k) and pension plan. Our wellbeing program supports employees at work and in their personal lives: Our PTO plan provides five weeks of vacation for new employees and 11 paid holidays per year; our Lifestyle Spending Account provides an annual stipend for employees to support wellbeing activities; and our central downtown location at the Old Post Office provides easy access to public transportation and breathtaking views from our award-winning rooftop. Visit FHLBCbenefits.com for additional details about our benefits. Step into a brighter future with us.
Salary Range:$90,400.00 - $150,700.00
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors. In addition to the base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package which can be found here: https://hrportal.ehr.com/fhlbc
