Global Financial Crimes Issues Oversight Specialist

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

This job is responsible for supporting the execution of substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include assisting Global Financial Crimes executives and managers with activities that support the identification, escalation and timely mitigation of compliance and operational risks in alignment with the Compliance and Operational Risk Management (CORM) Program, the Financial Crimes and Global Compliance - Enterprise Policies and the Enterprise Fraud Risk Management Standards.

The Global Financial Crimes (“GFC”) Specialist - Issues Oversight (hereinto referred to as “Issues Oversight Specialist”) assists Global Financial Crimes executives and managers in support of the GFC Issues Management program in alignment with the Global Financial Crimes Enterprise Policy, Standard, and Enterprise Issues standard. The Issues Oversight Specialist oversees the inventory of issues across GFC inclusive of managing the inventory, maintaining reporting, and proactively escalating concerns and/or emerging risks. Additionally, the Issues Oversight Specialist assists in preparing materials for regulatory exams/audits/inquiries and may assist with preparation for FLU/CF regulatory exams/audit deliverables related to the issues inventory.

The Issues Oversight Specialist will proactively identify and escalate “at risk” issues, remediation gaps and roadblocks which could affect timeliness of resolution or execution, as well as ensure adherence to all internal policies and standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices. The role will also establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, GFC risk executives and managers, and internal audit, and it will develop subject matter expertise of BSA/AML, Sanctions, and Fraud related risks and a solid business understanding of application of these risks within a large financial institution. This position is an individual contributor, and it may provide informal coaching on the issues management process to teammates within GFC.

Candidates with prior experience in risk management or audit, strong understanding of 2nd line coverage activities inclusive of risk assessments, monitoring, testing and/or quality assurance processes and/or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification highly preferred.

Responsibilities:

Supports the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and reviews relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions-owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed

Assists in the production of independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders

Assists in the monitoring of changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed

Contributes to risk coverage plans, executes independent risk monitoring, testing, and risk assessments

Supports with escalating financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees

Assists in the identification, aggregation, reporting, and escalation of the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes

Assists in the review of internal and external operational loss events, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately.

Provide execution oversight for an assigned issue portfolio, including both managed and owned issues across GFC.

Prepare and deliver reporting to leadership regarding performance, trends, themes, and risks, and ensuring adherence to the enterprise issues standard.

Coordinate with GFC Leadership and Risk Managers for issue/action plan development, governance/approval, resolution, and closure.

Skills:

Critical Thinking

Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing

Regulatory Compliance

Risk Management

Issue Management

Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management

Written Communications

Coaching

Reporting

Talent Development

Required Qualifications

Minimum Years Business & Functional Experience: 5 Years

Degree Required: Bachelor’s or equivalent experience

Competency with Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Desired Qualifications

Financial Services and/or related government entity background

Shift:1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40

24011137