Supervisory Market Data Analyst (Associate Director)

If selected for this position, you will serve as a Supervisory Market Data Analyst (Associate Director). As a recognized expert, you will: Provide management with authoritative input on potential changes to reporting regulations and new approaches for enhancing transparency for market participants.

When appropriate, you will present to senior staff and the Commission on topics related to data submitted to the agency. Provide support to other divisions and industry when questions arise regarding submitted data or reporting regulations. You will conduct additional data analysis and facilitate corrections when anomalies are detected.

Provide expert testimony for trials and administrative hearings involving alleged reporting violations and explain the Commission's data collection program in support of enforcement activities.

You may also provide expert analysis and testimony for investigations into price manipulation, violations of speculative position limits, and other complex matters requiring economic analysis and deep knowledge of the markets regulated by the CFTC. Plan and direct special projects related to data quality checks and examinations.

These projects may be initiated in response to requests from other divisions and are intended to improve data quality and/or strengthen work processes. Lead data‐driven analysis to improve the compliance, quality, and completeness of data collected.

Conduct process analysis to automate and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of market data collection operations. Provide subject matter expertise regarding the daily intake of derivatives and swaps data into CFTC systems.

Maintain awareness of potential changes to industry reporting and coordinate with other divisions in DOD to update tools and processes to support those changes. Perform a range of administrative and managerial duties for Branch operations.

Represent the Commission in meetings with officials from the financial industry and with public visitors from national and international associations and foreign governments.

To Qualify at the CT-15 level, candidates must have one year of specialized experience at the CT/GS-14 level or equivalent.

Examples of specialized experience include that through which one has gained an advanced knowledge of the Commodity Exchange Act and agency regulations, the ability to interpret and apply the policies and regulations to various situations; experience using comprehensive knowledge of national and international institutions related to futures trading, the economics of futures and option trading, accepted techniques for the collection and analysis of economic data, and experience directing the work of a highly technical and complex administrative program which involves providing CFTC divisions with large data and analyses.