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

Other names for Financial Examiners: Accountant, Agent, Auditor, Bank Compliance Officer, Bank Examiner, Bank Secrecy Act-Anti-Money Laundering Officer (BSA/AML Officer), Chief Bank Examiner, Community Reinvestment Act Officer (CRA Officer), Compliance Analyst, Compliance Coordinator, Compliance Director, Compliance Manager, Compliance Officer, Compliance Specialist, Compliance Vice President, Controller, Director of Securities and Real Estate, Examiner, Finance Director, Financial Analyst, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Specialist (HMDA Specialist), Internal Auditor, Regulatory Analyst, Risk Manager, Treasury Analyst,

• Investigate activities of institutions in order to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.
• Review and analyze new, proposed, or revised laws, regulations, policies, and procedures in order to interpret their meaning and determine their impact.
• Plan, supervise, and review work of assigned subordinates.
• Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions.
• Examine the minutes of meetings of directors, stockholders and committees in order to investigate the specific authority extended at various levels of management.
• 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.
• Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation in order to confirm institution assets and liabilities.
• Review audit reports of internal and external auditors in order to monitor adequacy of scope of reports or to discover specific weaknesses in internal routines.
• Train other examiners in the financial examination process.
• Establish guidelines for procedures and policies that comply with new and revised regulations, and direct their implementation.
• Direct and participate in formal and informal meetings with bank directors, trustees, senior management, counsels, outside accountants and consultants in order to gather information and discuss findings.
• Verify and inspect cash reserves, assigned collateral, and bank-owned securities in order to check internal control procedures.
• Review applications for mergers, acquisitions, establishment of new institutions, acceptance in Federal Reserve System, or registration of securities sales in order to determine their public interest value and conformance to regulations, and recommend acceptance or rejection.
• Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.
• Evaluate data processing applications for institutions under examination in order to develop recommendations for coordinating existing systems with examination procedures.
• Confer with officials of real estate, securities, or financial institution industries in order to exchange views and discuss issues or pending cases.

• Adding machines
• Desktop computers
• Notebook computers
• Personal computers

Project management software

Financial analysis software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Information retrieval or search software

Compliance software

Internet browser software