Bank/Credit Union Examiner

State-of-South-Carolina; South Carolina; On-site; USD 54,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

State of South Carolina's Office of the Commissioner of Banking seeks an Examiner I to review examinations of state-chartered banks and credit unions, ensuring compliance and sound operations. The role includes coordinating examination activities and training junior staff across the state.

You will prepare examination reports, assign tasks to examiners, and evaluate loans and investments, with required overnight travel throughout South Carolina and reimbursement per state regulations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years of bank or credit union examination experience.
• Completion of the FDIC Introduction to Examinations School and Financial Institution Analysis School.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business administration, or a related field with significant accounting/finance coursework.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the operations function of examinations of banks and credit unions to ensure safe and sound operations and regulatory compliance.
• Train Assistant and Associate Examiners and oversee examination schedules and comments.
• Assign work to examiners and ensure timely, accurate completion of tasks.
• Review and evaluate loans and investment accounts.

Skills

Bank examination experience

Regulatory knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting

Bachelor's degree in finance

Bachelor's degree in business administration

Job description

Join South Carolina state government where you can have a meaningful career, incomparable benefits, and a positive work-life balance!

The Office of the Commissioner of Banking is responsible for chartering, examining and otherwise regulating all South Carolina state-chartered banks, savings banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions and trust companies. Working as a member of a team, examiners review the operations of state-chartered institutions and determine compliance with laws and regulations in order to help promote a safe and sound financial system.

An Examiner I will coordinate the operations function of the examination of banks and credit unions, primarily on examinations of larger institutions, to ensure that the institutions are operating in a safe and sound manner and are in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The examiner will train Assistant and Associate Examiners, prepare and oversee preparation of various schedules and comments included in the examination report, and assign work to other examiners and assure timely and accurate completion of the work. An Examiner I will review and evaluate loans and investment accounts.

A minimum of two years of bank or credit union examination experience. Completion of the FDIC Introduction to Examinations School and Financial Institution Analysis School. A Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business administration, or a bachelor's degree in a related field with a significant amount of accounting and/or finance related coursework. Knowledge of the practices and principles of money and banking, the ability to learn and apply provisions of laws and regulations relating to financial institutions, the ability to follow oral and written instructions, and the ability to communicate orally and in writing needed.

This position requires overnight travel throughout the state. Travel costs will be reimbursed according to State regulations; however, the employee must provide his or her own transportation.

The Banking Division of the State Board of Financial Institutions is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.