Financial Institution Policy Analyst, Supervision Support Office

About the Role

The Financial Institution Policy Analyst position is part of the Supervision Support Office (SSO) team within the Division of Supervision & Regulation at the Federal Reserve Board. The SSO team acts as a strategic coordination hub for the division’s Supervision Group, collaborating with supervisory portfolios on various matters including information products, policy and program development, and cross-portfolio analysis. This role offers exposure to senior leadership and contributes to the implementation of Board priorities across portfolios.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform quantitative and/or qualitative analysis in support of FRB mission, Division goals, and Section objectives.
• Assist senior staff by providing support, information, or analysis.
• Prepare and deliver clear, accurate, and concise communication orally and in writing.
• Share information and ideas regarding projects and work for Section/Project Teams.
• Perform assigned project tasks.
• Support Section or Division in areas of expertise.
• Begin to develop areas of expertise.
• Contribute to high-priority, high-profile requests from senior leadership, such as briefing memos, talking points, and testimony materials.
• Produce analytical products that draw together data and perspectives from multiple supervisory portfolios.
• Support SSO's role as the primary supervision liaison with the Policy Group by helping to gather, synthesize, and document supervisory input that informs policy development.
• Assist in representing supervision’s business needs for supervisory technology platforms and initiatives, including supporting the development of guidance and training materials.
• Support crisis response efforts for the supervisory portfolios, helping to prepare information for senior management and Board principals.
• Compile, review, and present data from supervisory systems and reporting platforms, producing recurring reporting products and flagging trends or anomalies.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Data Analysis
• Supports in producing charts, graphs, and other visuals to help analyze data.
• Helps identify relevant issues, trends, and draw conclusions through analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
• Helps identify data that can be used to analyze policy.
• Examination and Supervision
• Participate in and/or lead examinations and/or reviews.
• Support and implement supervision and/or oversight policies and programs.
• Financial Analysis
• Supports in performing analysis of financial, regulatory, and compliance data and information.
• Clearly present analysis of financial, regulatory, and compliance data.
• Helps identify relevant issues and trends and draw conclusions through analysis of financial, regulatory, and compliance data.
• Policy
• Helps to interpret and/or implement policy, regulation, and/or guidance.
• Participate in drafting policy recommendations supported by logical reasoning and sound analysis.
• Risk Management
• Helps to identify and analyze emerging risks in financial institutions and markets, and/or for consumers and communities.
• Apply appropriate risk management frameworks and policies to support oversight of financial institutions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Interest in learning new reporting tools and approved automation or AI tools.
• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Python/R/SQL) and Tableau is a plus.
• Familiarity with, or interest in learning, supervisory data systems and reporting platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong intellectual curiosity and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work comfortably both in areas of existing expertise and in unfamiliar topics, issues, and challenges.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Experience producing or ability to learn to produce work products such as talking points, briefing memos, and reports with quick turnaround times without the aid of artificial intelligence (AI).
• Strong collaboration skills, including engaging stakeholders, keeping them involved as work evolves, and building a network across the supervision community.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Flexibility to manage competing priorities and adapt as circumstances change.
• Strong attention to detail, thoroughness, resourcefulness, and creativity.
• Some travel may be required.