Jobs / Finance and accounting / 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.
- US jobs
- 67,830
- Median wage
- $94,160 a year
- Job family
- Finance and accounting
Can agents do the work of financial examiners?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Finance and accounting: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: SpreadsheetBench 2, 54.5% of tasks completed.
Direct evidence that disagrees: APEX-Accounting, 14.8% of tasks fully completed (Pass@1).
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 14%Examine financial activities, operations, or systemsNot measured
- 13%Monitor operations to ensure adequate performanceNot measured
- 11%Coordinate activities with clients, agencies, or organizationsNot measured
- 11%Train others on operational or work proceduresNot measured
- 8%Advise others on legal or regulatory mattersNot measured
- 7%Prepare reports of operational or procedural activitiesNot measured
- 7%Supervise personnel activitiesNot measured
- 7%Monitor financial data or activitiesNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in finance and accounting, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
- 54.5%arito · 13 Sep 2026Emerging
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
Retired
Their maintainers or a major evaluator stopped using them as a frontier measure. They do not count.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
- Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions.
- 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.
- Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.
- Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.
- Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.
- Plan, supervise, and review work of assigned subordinates.
- Review audit reports of internal and external auditors to monitor adequacy of scope of reports or to discover specific weaknesses in internal routines.
- Examine the minutes of meetings of directors, stockholders, and committees to investigate the specific authority extended at various levels of management.
- 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.
- Review and analyze new, proposed, or revised laws, regulations, policies, and procedures to interpret their meaning and determine their impact.
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