Financial Examiners
Also called:
Compliance Officer, Compliance Vice President, Compliance Director, Community Reinvestment Act Officer (CRA Officer)
What they do:
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.
On the job, you would:
- Examine the minutes of meetings of directors, stockholders and committees to investigate the specific authority extended at various levels of management.
- Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.
- 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.
Arts and Humanities
Business
- accounting and economics
- management
Safety and Government
Math and Science
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
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Basic Skills
- reading work related information
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
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Verbal
- read and understand what is written
- communicate by speaking
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
Math
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
Visual Understanding
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People interested in this work like activities that include
leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Integrity
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Self Control
- Stress Tolerance
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You might use software like this on the job:
Financial analysis software
- ACL Business Assurance Analytics software
- Financial transaction analysis software
Compliance software
- NILS INSource
- ODEN Insurance Services State Rules & Regulations
Spreadsheet software
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bachelor's degree or
master's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are likely in the future.
$75,250
per year, on average
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