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Senior Examiner Large Financial Institutions, CG-570-13

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Summary

This position is located in the Division of Risk Management Supervision, San Francisco Region, at the San Francisco, CA field office of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and provides support in the areas of large financial institution examination.

Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill identical vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement.

Overview

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Open & closing dates
11/16/2020 to 11/30/2020
Salary
$127,106 to - $207,541 per year
Pay scale & grade
CG 13
Location
San Francisco, CA
1 vacancy
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Travel Required
75% or less - This position requires overnight travel
Relocation expenses reimbursed
Yes—Relocation benefits are authorized.
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-Time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
13
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Moderate Risk (MR)
Trust determination process
Announcement number
2020-SF-B0036
Control number
584575700

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Clarification from the agency

Current FDIC permanent employees with competitive status eligibility.

Duties

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  • Conducts bank supervision and examination functions, with a view toward assessing risk, as well as strengthening and improving the condition of the assigned organization, as appropriate. 
  • Maintains an informed position on economic and financial trends which may affect the assigned organization. 
  • Conducts ongoing analysis and evaluation of the financial condition, business initiatives, and future prospects of the assigned organization and its affiliates to assess the potential risk to the deposit insurance fund. 
  • Reviews developments applicable to the assigned organization, including accounting, reporting, and regulatory changes.
  • Prepares written reports summarizing the results of examinations, analyses, studies, and other supervisory findings to inform senior management at both the regional and Washington office level of significant issues and recommend appropriate supervisory action.
  • Maintains ongoing communication with management at the assigned organization to exchange information and inform them of supervisory findings and issues, as well as respond to and resolve issues or questions.  Maintains cooperative relationships with the appropriate state, Federal, and international supervisory agencies.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

Employee may be relocated to any duty location to meet management needs.

Completion of Confidential Financial Disclosure may be required.

Qualifications

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious/spiritual; community; student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Additional qualifications information can be found here.

At the CG-13 level: To qualify for the CG-13 level, applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the 12 grade level or above in the Federal service.  Specialized experience is defined as experience examining a financial institution’s safety, soundness, and risk posed to the Deposit Insurance Fund.

In addition, applicants must also be a Commissioned Risk Examiner in the FDIC.

Applicants must have met the qualification requirements for this position within 30 calendar days of the closing date of this announcement.

Education

There is no substitution of education for the experience for this position.

Additional information

To read about your rights and responsibilities as an applicant for Federal employment, click here.

Financial Institution Examiners must maintain the highest personal ethical standards as provided in Part 336 of the FDIC's Rules and Regulations, (Employee Responsibilities and Conduct). Financial Institution Examiners must comply with Section 3201.102 of Supplemental Standards of Ethical Conduct for FDIC Employees (5 CFR Part 3201), which, in part, prohibits them and their immediate families from accepting certain credit from State nonmember banks.

All Financial Institution Examiners are prohibited from the following:
1. Obtaining a loan or a line of credit from any insured state nonmember bank or its subsidiaries. Any extensions of credit held by the Examiner, the Examiner's spouse, or any dependent children are direct or indirect extensions of credit to the Examiner.
Exceptions:
a. Loans for a primary residence are permissible. The Examiner must not participate in any examination of that institution with which he holds the primary residence loan, and a "cooling off" period is required before negotiating a loan for a primary residence from any institution the Examiner has examined.
b. No restrictions on obtaining credit cards issued under the same terms and conditions available to the public from an insured state nonmember bank either within or outside of their field office of assignment.
2. Participating in any examination, or other matter, involving an insured depository institution or any person with whom the Examiner has an outstanding loan or line of credit.
3. Performing any service for compensation with any bank, or for any officer, director, or employee thereof, or for any person connected therewith.
4. Disclosing any confidential information from a bank examination report except as authorized by law.
5. Soliciting or accepting any gift from a prohibited source or because of the Examiner's official position.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Your resume and the online assessment questionnaire will be reviewed, to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement. Therefore, it is imperative that your resume contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level.

Your resume will also be evaluated to measure your responses to the assessment questions. If you rated yourself higher on the questionnaire than what is supported by your resume, your overall qualifications assessment may be adversely affected.

Top ranked candidates will be referred to the selecting official for further review and consideration.

The competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) you will be assessed on are listed below.

  1. Knowledge of financial institution supervisory methods and procedures, including experience assessing risk and conducting onsite examinations.
  2. Knowledge of economics and finance, including the use of financial databases and financial software, development of quantitative analysis methodologies and tools, the structure and operations of global financial markets, and the characteristics and risks associated with various financial instruments.
  3. Skill preparing written products, often on difficult or controversial matters and under significant time pressures, for a variety of audiences both within and outside of the FDIC.
  4. Ability to make presentations to high level officials from the FDIC, other regulatory agencies, and insured financial institutions on supervisory issues, often of a difficult or controversial nature.

You do not need to respond separately to these KSAs. Your answers to the online questionnaire and resume will serve as responses to the KSAs. 


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