Regulatory and Banking SME

Guidehouse•Tysons Corner, VA

About The Position

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced Bank Supervision & Regulatory Subject Matter Expert to support a major business transformation initiative. The role brings expertise in bank supervision, examination practices, and the federal banking regulatory environment to a multidisciplinary team assessing and improving supervisory business processes and enabling technologies. The SME helps the team understand current supervisory activities, identify regulatory and operational considerations to preserve in the future state, and translate supervisory needs into practical business and technology requirements. The position works with business process, technology, data, and change management professionals and engages with OCC examiners, supervisors, other stakeholders, and client leadership. The SME advises on the end-to-end supervisory lifecycle and helps evaluate current-state processes and future-state designs. The role requires the ability to communicate complex supervisory concepts to regulatory and non-regulatory audiences. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust, with approved adjudication required before onboarding.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Accounting, Public Policy, or a related field.
Five to seven years of experience.
Significant professional experience in banking supervision, bank examination, prudential regulation, or closely related banking regulatory work.
Experience supervising and/or overseeing the work of junior-level staff.
Strong knowledge of the bank examination and supervisory lifecycle, including how examiners plan, execute, document, review, communicate, and follow up on supervisory activities.
Experience working for or directly with a federal banking regulator, such as the OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, or another prudential supervisory organization.
Working knowledge of safety-and-soundness supervision, risk-based examinations, supervisory findings and issues, examination reporting, and remediation and follow-up activities.
Ability to interpret regulatory and supervisory guidance and explain its effects on day-to-day examination activities and business processes.
Ability to distinguish activities required by regulation or policy from those driven by procedure, supervisory judgment, technology constraints, or historical practice.
Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, including business analysts, technology professionals, program managers, and senior stakeholders.
Strong facilitation, communication, and analytical skills.
Ability to translate complex regulatory concepts into clear, actionable input for business process and technology transformation.
Must be a U.S. citizen due to the nature of client engagements.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved Public Trust adjudication is required before onboarding with Guidehouse.

Nice To Haves

Active Public Trust or suitability.
Master’s degree, MBA, JD, or another relevant advanced degree.
Direct experience conducting or leading examinations or ongoing supervision of financial institutions.
Experience supervising or examining institutions across multiple sizes or levels of complexity.
Experience in one or more specialty areas: safety and soundness, credit, operational risk, compliance, technology/cybersecurity, or third-party risk.
Experience with supervisory process modernization, business process improvement, workflow redesign, or regulatory technology transformation.
Experience translating regulatory or supervisory requirements into business, functional, data, or technology requirements.
Familiarity with workflow or case-management platforms such as ServiceNow.

Responsibilities

Serve as a bank supervision and regulatory subject matter expert to the transformation team, providing practical insight into the federal bank examination and supervisory environment.
Advise on the end-to-end supervisory lifecycle, including examination planning and scoping, preparation, fieldwork and execution, findings and issue development, review and approval, reporting, remediation, follow-up, validation, and ongoing supervision.
Participate in structured interviews and working sessions with OCC examiners, supervisors, and other stakeholders to understand current supervisory practices.
Distinguish regulatory or policy requirements from supervisory judgment, established procedures, and legacy practices when evaluating current-state processes.
Help business process specialists understand examiner workflows, decision points, handoffs, dependencies, pain points, duplicative activities, and areas that rely on institutional knowledge or manual workarounds.
Provide expertise on differences in supervisory approaches across community banks, midsize institutions, and large or complex banking organizations, as applicable.
Assess how supervisory specialists in safety and soundness, compliance, technology and cybersecurity, operational risk, and third-party risk interact with the broader examination process.
Review proposed future-state processes and requirements for regulatory, supervisory, operational, or examiner-judgment implications.
Translate regulatory and supervisory concepts into clear requirements for business analysts, process designers, technologists, data specialists, and ServiceNow or platform teams.
Support development and review of process maps, business requirements, operating-model concepts, workflow designs, and transformation recommendations.
Participate in working sessions with senior team and client leadership and communicate complex supervisory concepts to regulatory and non-regulatory audiences.
Supervise and/or oversee the work of junior-level staff.