This position is located at Departmental Offices,Domestic Finance - Financial Markets. As a Senior Financial Economist, you will be responsible for performing loan analysis, loan transaction structuring, economic and financial research, modelling, analysis, and projections.
As a Senior Financial Economist, you will: Lead the execution of complex financing transactions, including loan commitments, disbursements, repayments, pricing calculations, and prepayments; including providing technically authoritative analysis of loan terms and conditions, interest-rate structures, repayment schedules, prepayment provisions, options, and related financing features.
Assess the risks and benefits of specific lending or loan guarantee agreements including, but not limited to: counterparty analysis, financial modelling (including collecting data, designing models, making judgement calls on model assumptions, evaluating and changing the model to improve its capabilities), recommending proposed terms and conditions, assessing FCRA scoring implications, reviewing compliance with federal statutes, regulations, and policies, and adherence to policy goals.
Draft research covering a wide range of government financing matters including, but not limited to federal investing, federal borrowing, loan guarantee programs, and Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA) accounting and budgeting implications for review by senior Treasury officials and economists. Prepare detailed policy memoranda and executive presentations on complex financial and federal lending topics.
Duties include but are not limited to performing industry analysis, reviewing federal program agreements, and recommending policy options.
The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Refer to the OPM instructions. Basic Requirements Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus.
OR Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Evaluation of Experience Examples of qualifying experience include: 1. individual economic research assignments requiring planning, information assembly, analysis and evaluation, conclusions and report preparation; 2.
supervisory or project coordination assignments involving a staff of professional economists, and requiring the evaluation and interpretation of economic information; or 3.
teaching assignments in a college or university that included both class instruction in economics subjects and one of the following (1) personal research that produced evidence of results, (2) direction of graduate theses in economics, or (3) service as a consultant or advisor on technical economics problems.
Experience in related fields that did not involve the use and understanding of economic principles and theories may not be used as qualifying experience for these positions. Special attention on this point should be given to certain types of work that may or may not have provided professional economic experience. The following examples of work require special care in such determinations: 1. economic statistics; 2. industrial surveys; 3.
management of individual business enterprises, including farms; 4. industrial planning; 5. writing or editorial work in economic subjects; and 6. financial market analysis.
doinquiries@fiscal.treasury.gov · 304-480-7300
This position is with Treasury, Departmental Offices, Department of the Treasury.
The posted pay range is $143913 – $187093/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-23.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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