Regulatory and Banking SME

Location: US - VA, McLean

Job Family

Management Consulting

Travel Required

None

Clearance Required

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced Bank Supervision & Regulatory Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support a major business transformation initiative.

The SME will bring deep knowledge of bank supervision, examination practices, and the federal banking regulatory environment to a multidisciplinary team focused on assessing and improving supervisory business processes and enabling technologies.

This individual will work alongside business process, technology, data, and change management professionals to help the team understand how supervisory activities are performed today, identify regulatory and operational considerations that must be preserved in a future-state environment, and help translate supervisory needs into practical business and technology requirements.

The ideal candidate has firsthand experience as a federal bank examiner, regulator, or senior banking professional who has worked extensively with prudential regulators and understands the end-to-end examination and supervision lifecycle.

Serve as a bank supervision and regulatory SME to the transformation team, providing practical insight into the federal bank examination and supervisory environment.

Advise the team on the end-to-end supervisory lifecycle, including examination planning and scoping, examination preparation, fieldwork/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.

Help distinguish between regulatory or policy requirements, supervisory judgment, established procedures, and legacy practices when evaluating current-state processes.

Assist business process specialists in understanding examiner workflows, decision points, handoffs, dependencies, pain points, duplicative activities, and areas reliant on institutional knowledge or manual workarounds.

Provide subject matter expertise regarding differences in supervisory approaches across community banks, midsize institutions, and large or complex banking organizations, as applicable.

Help assess how supervisory specialists, including safety and soundness, compliance, technology/cybersecurity, operational risk, and third-party risk personnel, interact with the broader examination process.

Review proposed future-state processes and requirements to identify potential regulatory, supervisory, operational, or examiner-judgment implications.

Help translate regulatory and supervisory concepts into clear requirements that can be understood by business analysts, process designers, technologists, data specialists, and ServiceNow/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 clearly communicate complex supervisory concepts to both regulatory and non-regulatory audiences.

What You Will Need

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
• Must be a US Citizen due to nature of client engagements.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Accounting, Public Policy, or a related field required.
• Five (5) to Seven (7) 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 and 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/issues, examination reporting, and remediation/follow-up activities.
• Ability to interpret regulatory and supervisory guidance and explain how it affects 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.

What Would Be Nice To Have

• Master’s degree, MBA, JD, or other relevant advanced degree preferred.
• 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 such as

Safety and soundness

Credit

Operational risk

Compliance

Technology/cybersecurity

Third-party risk

Experience with supervisory process modernization, business process improvement, workflow redesign, or regulatory technology transformation.

Experience helping translate regulatory or supervisory requirements into business, functional, data, or technology requirements.

Familiarity with workflow/case-management platforms such as ServiceNow is beneficial but not required.

The annual salary range for this position is $113,000.00-$188,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

What We Offer

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Basic Life & Supplemental Life

Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

Student Loan PayDown

Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

Skills Development & Certifications

Employee Referral Program

Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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Additional Locations: US - DC, Washington