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Financial Examiner

Financial Examiner

  • Ensure financial institutions operate within legal boundaries and maintain integrity.
  • Protect the economy by verifying compliance and safeguarding financial stability.
  • Engage with top executives to discuss and resolve financial compliance issues.
💰 Earn $76K-$130K
📚 Bachelor Degree

Overview

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.

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Minimum Education

Bachelor Degree

Career Prospects

Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)

Training Time

2 to 4 years

Job Openings

6,500 in Total

Earnings

$100,400 Med. in CA

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Day-to-Day

  • 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.

Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

  • Influencing or leading others
  • Using data or completing tasks

You are skilled in 💫

  • Active Listening
  • Speaking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Writing

You value 🙏

  • Accomplishing things
  • Independence
  • Having freedom
  • Achievement
  • Relationships
  • Personal relationships

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