Examination Director - All FINRA Locations
Examination Director - All FINRA Locations
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Job Description
In this role you will directly manage 46 Examination Managers and Senior Principal Examiners. This is a highvisibility role that will give you an opportunity to coach develop and mentor your team.
Our Examinations Program is a critical component of FINRAs regulatory operations and one of the primary means by which we oversee the activities of our member firms. We take a riskbased approach to our oversight with the goal of detecting deterring or addressing activities that may cause investor harm or adversely impact the integrity of our markets.
Essential Job Functions:
- Manages 46 Examination Managers and Senior Principal Examiners
- Shares input and intelligence to inform annual Examination Planning efforts
- Effectively communicates guidance policies and key initiatives to staff and management
- Develops talent and sets clear expectations holding staff accountable for their performance
- Provides guidance to external parties on highlevel regulatory issues
- Reviews and approves all exam related reports and letters (i.e. strategy exit exam disposition etc.) for mediumhigh and high risk firms
- Empowers direct reports to make riskbased decisions on examinations
- Timely identifies exam delay drivers and works collaboratively to ensure prompt resolution
- Supports identification of novel and complex exam issues and facilitates final resolution of such issues
- Collaborates and regularly coordinates with internal stakeholders within Member Supervision and across other departments such as Enforcement
- Ensures that the Program serves FINRAs mission in an efficient and effective manner and actively identifies opportunities and gaps. Participates in projects/initiatives that further these efforts
- Presents at conferences and participates in outreach to member firms and investors
Education/Experience Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience required. Major in Accounting Finance Economics Business Administration or related fields preferred.
- MBA JD other graduate degree and/or relevant industry certification(s) preferred
- Significant securities compliance or financial regulatory experience
- Significant experience managing projects and/or people
Knowledge Requirements:
- Advanced knowledge of FINRAs risk fundamentals
- Advanced knowledge of securities rules and regulations
- Advanced knowledge of firm business models business lines customer bases products and services
- Advanced knowledge of rule changes and interpretations
- Advanced knowledge of industry wide events and trends affecting FINRAs exam program
- Advanced knowledge of FINRA departments and their mandates
Skill Requirements:
- Proficient in utilizing available resources
- Expert ability to recognize and understand the relationship and impact between regulatory areas
- Expert ability to manage time effectively and complete examination plans within the budgeted time frames
- Expert ability to effectively liaise with internal and external parties
- Expert ability to identify and prioritize risk
- Expert ability to inspire and motivate direct reports
- Expert relationship building skills
- Expert ability to make timely decisions
For work that is performed in CA CO HI MN VT IL Jersey City NJ New York City NY MA WA MD Washington DC NJ State and NY State please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. In addition to location actual compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to the candidates skill set level of experience education and internal peer compensation comparisons.
CA: Minimum Salary $150600 Maximum Salary $305000
CO/HI/MN/VT*: Minimum Salary $131100 Maximum Salary $254000
IL*: Minimum Salary $144000 Maximum Salary $279500
Jersey City NJ/NYC NY: Minimum Salary $157300 Maximum Salary $305000
MA/WA: Minimum Salary $131100 Maximum Salary $292300
MD/Washington DC: Minimum Salary $150600 Maximum Salary $292300
NJ State: Minimum Salary $144000 Maximum $305000
NY State: Minimum Salary $131100 Maximum Salary $305000
*Including positions performed outside the state but reporting to an office or manager in that state.
Candidates can expect salary offers that range from the minimum to the midpoint of the salary range. FINRA provides full pay ranges so that the candidate can consider their growth potential while at FINRA.
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To be considered for this position please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required.
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FINRA strives to make our career site accessible to all users. If you need a disabilityrelated accommodation for completing the application process please contact FINRAs Employee Relations team at 240.386.4865 or by email atPlease note that this process is exclusively for inquiries regarding application accommodations.
Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Nonexempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal state or local law. As part of its dedication to employee wellness FINRA provides comprehensive health dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life accidental death and dismemberment supplemental life spouse/domestic partner and dependent life and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment short and longterm disability longterm care business travel accident disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRAfunded retirement contribution tuition reimbursement commuter benefits and other benefits that support employee wellness such as adoption assistance backup family care surrogacy benefits employee assistance and wellness programs.
Time Off and Paid Leave*
FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways including through a generous timeoff program of 15 days of paid time off 5 personal days and 9 sick days unless otherwise required by law (all prorated in the first year). Additionally we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on fulltime schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave jury duty leave bereavement leave voting and election official leave for federal state or local primary and general elections care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Fulltime employees receive nine paid holidays.
*Based on fulltime schedule
Important Information
FINRAs Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their brokerdealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Codes investment and securities account restrictions and new employees must comply with those investment restrictionsincluding disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRAs Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice Presidentby the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (efeed) of data to FINRA and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an efeed within three months of beginning employment.
You can read more about these restrictions here.
As standard practice employees must also execute FINRAs Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the companys policy on nepotism.
Search Firm Representatives
Please be advised that FINRA is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice a valid written agreement and task order must be in place before any resumes are submitted to FINRA. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FINRA without a valid written agreement and task order in place will be deemed the sole property of FINRA and no fee will be paid in the event that person is hired by FINRA.
FINRA strives to make our career site accessible to all users. If you need a disabilityrelated accommodation for completing the application process please contact FINRAs Employee Relations team at 240.386.4865 or by email atPlease note that this process is exclusively for inquiries regarding application accommodations.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age citizenship status color disability marital status national origin race religion sex veteran status or any other classification protected by federal state or local laws.
FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60741.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities.
FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60300.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified protected veterans and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
