Occupations/13-2061.00
Financial Examiners
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.
Usually a four-year bachelor’s degree.
AI automation risk
76%
Higher automation risk
Human characteristics
27%
Fewer uniquely human demands
Task orientation
42%
Mixed exposure
A day in this job
- Mostly human
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.
- Mostly routine
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.
- Mostly routine
Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.
Split from the wording of these tasks, shown next to the occupation’s AI risk. It is not a separate score for each task, and it is not a forecast that the job disappears.
Core tasks
- 01Direct and participate in formal and informal meetings with bank directors, trustees, senior management, counsels, outside accountants, and consultants to gather information and discuss findings.
- 02Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions.
- 03Prepare 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.
- 04Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.
- 05Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.
- 06Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.
Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)
- Repeating same tasks2.70
- Degree of automation2.30
- Time sitting4.78
- Originality (ability)3.00
- Conflict situations2.74
- Hands-on objects/tools1.23
- Outdoors / weather1.00
- Disease exposure1.00
- Decision freedom3.52
Top abilities
- Written Comprehension4.25
- Oral Expression4.12
- Inductive Reasoning4.12
- Deductive Reasoning4.12
- Written Expression4.00
- Problem Sensitivity4.00
- Oral Comprehension4.00
- Near Vision4.00
Essential skills
- Reading Comprehension4.12
- Active Listening4.00
- Writing4.00
- Speaking4.00
- Mathematics3.62
- Science1.25
- Critical Thinking4.12
- Active Learning3.62
- Learning Strategies3.38
- Monitoring3.88
CIP matches
Schools offering related programs
12 of 80 shown
Earnings are College Scorecard medians for that program, 1 and 2 years after completion. A dash means the Department suppressed the cell or the campus is not in the field file.
| Institution | Program | Tuition | Admit | Grad 6-yr | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New York University New York, NY · Private nonprofit | Accounting 52.0301 | $60,400 | 12% | 88% | 1 yr $78,172 2 yr $77,297 Master's · CIP 52.03 |
Georgetown University Washington, DC · Private nonprofit | Accounting 52.0301 | $65,400 | 12% | 95% | 1 yr $77,966 2 yr $77,715 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
University of St Thomas St. Paul, MN · Private nonprofit | Suspension and Debarment Investigation 43.0121 | $50,200 | 77% | 82% | 1 yr $71,854 2 yr $75,204 Master's · CIP 43.01 |
University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $14,800 | 11% | 93% | 1 yr $71,734 2 yr $70,886 Master's · CIP 52.03 |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $17,500 | 45% | 85% | 1 yr $66,787 2 yr $64,493 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
Lincoln College of Technology-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN · Private for-profit | Accounting 52.0301 | $18,600 | 100% | 64% | 1 yr $65,386 2 yr $62,524 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $11,200 | 49% | 89% | 1 yr $62,260 2 yr $62,343 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $13,600 | 81% | 72% | 1 yr $61,922 2 yr $61,681 Master's · CIP 52.03 |
Milwaukee Area Technical College Milwaukee, WI · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $4,900 | 100% | 27% | 1 yr $61,839 2 yr $61,870 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
University of Florida Gainesville, FL · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $6,400 | 23% | 89% | 1 yr $61,516 2 yr $49,644 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
Normandale Community College Bloomington, MN · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $6,100 | 100% | 32% | 1 yr $61,303 2 yr $58,673 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $9,000 | 17% | 91% | 1 yr $59,954 2 yr $58,974 Master's · CIP 52.03 |