Senior Examination Specialist (Capital Markets Policy) CG-0570-15

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. CG-15: Applicants must complete one year of specialized experience equivalent to the 14 level or above in Federal service.

Specialized experience is defined as: Leading complex examinations or targeted reviews involving capital markets risk at financial institutions; independently or as a team lead developing policy recommendations or evaluating compliance with policies related to regulatory capital, liquidity, interest-rate risk, or capital markets instruments, activities, and strategies; and analyzing capital markets activities and recommending actions to promote the safety and soundness of financial institutions or safeguard U.S. financial stability.

In addition to the qualification requirements above, you must meet the following selective factor: Must be a commissioned FDIC Financial Institution Examiner (Risk Management) or hold a Risk Management Examiner commission from another comparable organization as determined by the FDIC. 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.

For qualification determinations, your resume must contain the following for each work experience listed: Organization/Agency's Name Title Series and grade (federal jobs only) Start and end dates (including the month and year) Number of hours you worked per week Relevant experience that supports your response to the specialized experience that is stated in the job announcement If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position.

NOTE: Please indicate how you meet the specialized experience under each applicable position. Do not copy and paste the duties or specialized experience from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications.

Serves as project leader and a senior authority in the formulation, advancement and implementations of agency and/or interagency policy, procedures, regulations and supervisory guidance with respect to regulatory capital, liquidity, interest rate risk, capital markets instruments, activities, and strategies (including structured products, trading activities and derivatives activities); and other supervisory and examination issues.

Oversees and performs expert level analysis and examination of bank and non-bank financial institution activities including stress testing exercises, market risk reviews, capital markets-related horizontal reviews, market making and underwriting metrics, derivatives activities (including hedging), and other similar data intensive or model-based analyses.

Provides primary and technical examination and supervisory guidance, advice, and assistance to RMS Washington Office management and staff, RMS regional and area office management, RMS Regional Capital Markets Specialists, other regional and area office staff, and field examination staff primarily in areas of liquidity, sensitivity to market risk, securities, regulatory capital, and other capital markets related matters.

Provides authoritative recommendations that guide the development of Division policies and revised supervisory approaches to the examinations that relate to liquidity, sensitivity to market risk, securities, regulatory capital, and other capital market-related matters. Assesses regulatory changes, capital market developments, and emerging risks to determine their implications for the broader economy, the banking sector, and the Deposit Insurance Fund.

• Provides high impact recommendations for maintaining safety and soundness and safeguarding U.S. financial stability.
• Performs advanced research on complex financial and capital markets issues, instruments and strategies.
• Analyzes the current and potential impact of capital, earnings, liquidity, and market risks across insured institutions and contributes findings to policy development efforts.

Performs research and develops analytical reports on segments of complex capital markets issues regarding capital market instruments, insured institution's use and involvement with/in capital markets and the associated risks. Analyzes the actual and potential impact of capital, earnings, liquidity and market risks to insured financial institutions. Develops frameworks to ensure these risks are effectively measured, monitored, and supervised.

Performs financial and economic analyses to identify sources of capital markets risk in financial institutions that must be measured and/or monitored by regulatory agencies.