Clarification from the agency

This position is open to current FDIC permanent employees with competitive status eligibility.

As a Senior Examiner, Large Financial Institutions, the incumbent serves as a key management representative and recognized technical authority responsible for planning and directing the supervisory efforts of one of the nation's largest and most complex financial institutions. Major duties include: 

• 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 the assigned organization and analyzes financial or other information filed or reported in accordance with regulatory requirements or from other sources.
• Assists with 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.
• Performs activities related to the review, analysis, and preparation of reports of examination, supervisory correspondence, applications, investigations, and other duties of an administrative nature involving the assigned organization.
• Prepares written reports summarizing the results of analyses, and communicating findings,
  recommendations, and related supervisory action.
• As assigned, initiates, conducts, or acts as lead in conferences or meetings with other supervisory agencies and bank officials.
• Maintains cooperative relationships with the appropriate state, Federal, and international supervisory agencies.

Conditions of employment

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

Completion Of 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.

To qualify, 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.

Candidates must be a Commissioned Risk Examiner in the FDIC or another organization with comparable commission criteria used by the FDIC's Division of Risk Management Supervision.

Applicants must have met the qualification requirements (including selective placement factors – if any) for this position within 30 calendar days of the closing date of this announcement.

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 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 financial instruments.
3. Skill preparing written products, often on difficult or controversial matters and under time pressures, for 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.