Job Description:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
Job Description:
This job is responsible for driving and executing on internal control discipline and operational excellence within a Line of Business (LOB) or Enterprise Control Function (ECF). Key responsibilities include providing analytical and administrative support for LOB or ECF specific processes and tools to drive adherence to enterprise-wide standards. Job expectations include monitoring and testing controls and implementing quality assurance and quality control processes within the LOB or ECF by evaluating data to help identify, track, and report issues and control improvements for remediation.
Responsibilities:
- Be proactive in risk identification and mitigation through activity monitoring processes
- Provide solutions to help with implementation of process improvements or remediation plans to drive efficiencies and demonstrate sustainability
- Coordinate and partner across other support teams and stakeholders to ensure end-to-end process engagement and timely resolution of issues
- Perform root cause analysis of operational events and challenge control weaknesses and breakdowns to properly assess risk disposition
- Perform trend analysis and horizontal impact assessments to determine themes and identify emerging risks
- Support LOB through routine exams with regulators and internal audit
- Support Audit, Exam and/or Testing processes, ensure proper governance and protocol is followed; assist with preliminary research and response tracking
- Implement process control improvements and leverage Enterprise Risk Framework to effectively manage LOB risk
- Demonstrate strong collaboration, influencing, and relationship management skills to bridge key stakeholders across Audit, Risk, GCOR and LOB SME
Skills:
- Working knowledge of Risk, Quality Control/Assurance Framework
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills – ability to tailor messaging to senior management
- Able to understand, analyze, and explain complex workflows
- Self-Starter who can work independently with little guidance or direction
- Ability to meet tight deadlines while working in a flexible environment
- Attention to laws, rules & regulations and working knowledge of regional regulations
- High technical expertise in MS Office platforms
- Project Management skills and ability to manage various project timelines with multiple competing priorities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as interpersonal skills
- Ability to read and synthesize complex matters, anticipate risks, and summarize key information
- Critical thinking skills to assess data, artifacts and new or unfamiliar business concepts to draw conclusions that are not readily apparent
- Strong research and analytical skills and attention to detail but in context with broader business landscape
- Ability to prioritize effectively, a self-starter, organized, capable of performing work independently with minimal direction.
- Ability to interact with people in all levels of the organization and ability to organize data for executive level reporting
- Understanding of AI and also have appreciation of the mitigants of the process risk, vulnerabilities and leakages that potentially can be caused by automated systems
- Fluency in English
- Strong presentation skills and the ability to present key messages, effective recommendations, and information in a clear, concise, insightful and influential way
