Senior Financial Economist (Research), NB-0110-VI
Summary
As Senior Financial Economist, you will provide advice and consultation by performing research, analysis, or modeling to : effectively assess banks' compliance with laws, regulations and model risk management practices;
identify / quantify emerging risks; or further understand the evolving behaviors / trends of financial institutions, consumer behavior, and financial markets.
The position is located with the Supervision Risk and Analysis, Economic & Risk Analysis-Compliance Risk Analysis Division.
Duties
Economists in the Compliance Risk Analysis Division (CRAD) will conduct quantitative analysis and research to support bank supervision and to advise OCC senior management on policy and regulation related to topics including consumer protection, fair lending, financial technology and financial inclusion, credit access and community reinvestment, and bank secrecy / anti-money laundering.
As a Senior Financial Economist, you will :
- Conduct onsite and offsite bank-specific analyses that relate to compliance risk at financial institutions.
- Apply models to test for violations of consumer regulations such as mortgage discrimination, or improper lending practices, and for unfair and deceptive practices with respect to consumer protection, and ineffective risk management of models with respect to anti-money laundering.
- Conduct research and prepare professional papers to be published In peer reviewed academic journals in such areas of labor, public finance, or other related applied microeconomic fields.
- Provide conclusions by preparing memoranda that evaluate bank compliance with consumer related, and bank secrecy / anti-money laundering regulations.
Present such conclusions to bank management and examiners.
- Respond to requests for economic analysis of issues affecting the banking system, financial and consumer markets, and broad OCC operations from senior management.
- Present and actively participate in relevant conferences and seminars to retain, develop, and enhance econometric, economic, and statistical techniques, theories, and approaches for use in consumer protection, credit access, anti-money laundering and other compliance examination related areas in the financial institutions and markets.
- Initiate and manage consumer and community related and / or economic research projects to facilitate the development and understanding of new techniques for risk measurement components of compliance examination.