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Financial Examiners

Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.

$84,300
Median Pay
4-6 years
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Moderate+1

EPOCH score: 13/25

Total Score4/6
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Key Responsibilities

  • Direct and participate in formal and informal meetings with bank directors, trustees, senior management, counsels, outside accountants, and consultants to gather information and discuss findings.
  • Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions.
  • Prepare reports, exhibits, and other supporting schedules that detail an institution's safety and soundness, compliance with laws and regulations, and recommended solutions to questionable financial conditions.
  • Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.
  • Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.
  • Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.
  • Plan, supervise, and review work of assigned subordinates.
  • Review audit reports of internal and external auditors to monitor adequacy of scope of reports or to discover specific weaknesses in internal routines.
  • Examine the minutes of meetings of directors, stockholders, and committees to investigate the specific authority extended at various levels of management.
  • Train other examiners in the financial examination process.

Education & Training

Typical Entry Education

Bachelor's degree

Time to Job Ready

4-6 years

Based on Job Zone 4. For formal education duration only, see education_duration.

Technology Skills

Financial analysis softwareMicrosoft ExcelAudit softwareRegulatory compliance toolsDatabase systems

Key Abilities

Written ComprehensionOral ExpressionDeductive ReasoningInductive ReasoningOral ComprehensionWritten ExpressionProblem SensitivityNear VisionCategory FlexibilitySpeech Recognition

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Compensation Details

$49,710
10th Percentile
$84,300
Median
$165,670
90th Percentile

Based on 63,440 employed workers

Also Known As

AML Director (Anti-Money Laundering Director)Anti Money Laundering Investigator (AML Investigator)Bank Compliance OfficerBank ExaminerBank Secrecy Act Anti-Money Laundering Officer (BSA/AML Officer)BSA Analyst (Business Systems Analyst)BSA Officer (Bank Secrecy Act Officer)BSA Specialist (Bank Secrecy Act Specialist)Commercial Escrow OfficerCommunity Reinvestment Act Officer (CRA Officer)

Data from O*NET 30.1 and BLS Occupational Employment Statistics

O*NET Code: 13-2061.00