Capital Markets Policy Analyst, CG-1160-13/14

This position is located in the Division of Risk Management Supervision, Capital Markets Strategies Section, responsible for providing support in relating to policy for capital markets risk and the economic and regulatory capital requirements of financial institutions.

Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill identical vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement.

Qualifications:

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious/spiritual; community; student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Additional qualifications information can be found here.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a subject matter expert in the development of recommendations on agency and/or interagency policy and guidance with respect to regulatory capital; liquidity; interest rate risk; capital markets instruments, activities, and strategies (including structured products, trading activities and derivatives activities); and other supervisory issues.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in the analysis of bank and non-bank financial institution activities including stress testing exercises, market risk reviews, capital markets-related horizontal reviews, market making and underwriting metrics, derivatives activities (including hedging), and other similar data intensive or model-based analyses.
• Evaluates the potential impact of regulatory and capital markets changes on the general economy, the banking industry and the Deposit Insurance Fund in developing recommended actions for purposes of promoting safety and soundness or protecting the financial stability of the United States.
• Conducts financial and capital markets research and analyses of financial instruments and analyzes the impact that such would have on the actions and activities of bank and non-bank financial institutions.
• Performs research and develops analytical reports on segments of capital markets issues regarding capital market instruments, insured institution's use and involvement with/in capital markets and the associated risks. Analyzes the actual and potential impact of capital, earnings, liquidity and market risks to insured financial institutions.
• Keeps abreast of trends and developments in the field of finance, economics and law related to financial institutions.