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Financial Examiner

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.

Annual openings

134

Median wage

$99,610

Typical education

Bachelor's degree

Growth 2026–2032

+12%

Median wage source: Colorado BLS OEWS (2025).

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Typical education

Bachelor's degree

Credential requirement

Credential requirements not reported

Work experience

This is an entry-level job so no work experience is expected.

Employer competency information

  • Feedback from employers identifies the following competencies as important — Attention to detail, analytical skills, and the ability to understand/use numbers and math.
Financial institutions and the government both employ Financial Examiners.

Is this work a fit?

What the work actually feels like

How people in this career tend to spend their time, the interests it draws on, and a look at a typical day.

Work style

The type of work can vary by job and employer.

  • With childrenNo
  • On a computerYes
  • OutdoorsNo
  • With your handsNo

Interests it draws on

  • Finance
  • Banking

Automation exposure

Low exposure

Tasks here lean on judgement and people skills that are hard to automate.

A typical day

  1. 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.
  2. Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions.
  3. 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.
  4. Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.
  5. Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.
  6. Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.
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