Junior Regulatory & Banking SME

Guidehouse•Tysons Corner, VA

About The Position

Guidehouse is seeking a Junior Regulatory & Banking Subject Matter Expert to support a federal financial regulatory agency transformation initiative focused on modernizing and improving bank supervision and examination processes. The role works alongside senior regulatory subject matter experts, business process analysts, and technology professionals to support research, analysis, documentation, and stakeholder engagement concerning bank supervision, examination activities, regulatory requirements, and business process improvement. The position supports analysis of supervision and examination processes, policies, procedures, guidance, and regulatory requirements; research into banking regulations and industry practices; and translation of regulatory needs into business and process requirements. It also contributes to documenting current- and future-state processes, identifying opportunities for improvement, developing requirements and other deliverables, and helping ensure proposed process and technology changes reflect supervisory and regulatory needs.

Requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.
Must be a U.S. citizen due to the nature of client engagements.
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Banking, Economics, Business, Accounting, Public Policy, or a related field.
Approximately one to three years of relevant professional experience in banking, financial services, financial regulation, consulting, risk management, compliance, audit, or a related field.
Foundational understanding of the U.S. banking regulatory environment and the roles of federal banking regulators.
Familiarity with banking operations, risk management, compliance, supervision, or examination concepts.
Strong research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to synthesize complex regulatory or business information into clear written materials.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work effectively with business and technical stakeholders.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

Experience working for or supporting a federal or state financial regulatory agency, financial institution, or financial-services consulting organization.
Familiarity with bank supervision or examination activities, including examination planning, scoping, fieldwork, findings, reporting, or follow-up.
Exposure to safety and soundness, compliance, operational risk, credit risk, BSA/AML, consumer compliance, or other banking risk disciplines.
Experience conducting regulatory or policy research.
Exposure to business process improvement, requirements gathering, process mapping, or technology modernization initiatives.
Familiarity with tools or platforms used for workflow, requirements management, data analysis, or process documentation.
Experience supporting stakeholder interviews or facilitated working sessions.

Responsibilities

Analyze bank supervision and examination processes, policies, procedures, guidance, and regulatory requirements.
Research banking regulations, supervisory guidance, examination procedures, and industry practices.
Assist senior subject matter experts in interpreting regulatory and supervisory requirements and translating them into business and process requirements.
Research and summarize regulatory changes, emerging risks, and banking-industry developments.
Participate in stakeholder interviews, workshops, and working sessions with examiners, supervisory personnel, business stakeholders, and technology teams.
Document current-state supervisory and examination processes, including activities, roles, handoffs, decision points, systems, and pain points.
Help identify process inefficiencies, duplicative activities, manual workarounds, and opportunities for standardization or automation.
Support development and validation of future-state processes and business requirements.
Trace business and functional requirements to regulatory, policy, procedural, or operational drivers.
Develop summaries of regulations, supervisory guidance, policies, procedures, and examination practices.
Support preparation of process maps, requirements documentation, briefing materials, findings, and recommendations.
Assist with meeting preparation, note taking, action-item tracking, and synthesis of stakeholder feedback.
Maintain organized documentation and traceability among stakeholder input, regulatory requirements, business processes, and proposed solutions.
Collaborate with regulatory subject matter experts, business analysts, process improvement specialists, project managers, and technical teams.
Translate regulatory and business concepts for technology and implementation teams.
Support validation activities to ensure proposed process and technology changes appropriately reflect supervisory and regulatory needs.