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Financial Examiners
Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Direct and participate in formal and informal meetings with bank directors, trustees, senior management, counsels, outside accountants, and consultants to gather information and discuss findings.Mostly human for now
- 02Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Prepare reports, exhibits, and other supporting schedules that detail an institution's safety and soundness, compliance with laws and regulations, and recommended solutions to questionable financial conditions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Plan, supervise, and review work of assigned subordinates.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Review audit reports of internal and external auditors to monitor adequacy of scope of reports or to discover specific weaknesses in internal routines.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Examine the minutes of meetings of directors, stockholders, and committees to investigate the specific authority extended at various levels of management.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Train other examiners in the financial examination process.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss4%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
50%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 46% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Direct and participate in formal and informal meetings with bank directors, trustees, senior management, counsels, outside accountants, and consultants to gather information and discuss findings.