Regulatory Reporting Operations Professional

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 providing analysis for one or more operations product areas in the delivery of moderately complex regulatory reporting and/or regulatory processing. Key responsibilities include analyzing and resolving highly complex operations problems, projects and initiatives, and contributing to the resolution of highly complex problems. Job expectations include coordinating across multiple operations functions and products with the introduction of new initiatives, systems, products, services, and processes.

The Regulatory Reporting Operations Professional is part of the Enterprise Position Monitoring and Disclosure team and is responsible for position monitoring and preparation of non-financial regulatory disclosures under the relevant regulatory reporting laws across multiple regimes (substantial shareholdings, takeovers, short positions, beneficial ownership notices and industry limits) for the Global Markets and Wealth Management business divisions. They are responsible for the analysis and resolution of highly complex operations problems and initiatives requiring exceptional handling and/or coordination of multiple operational and/or product specialists to resolve. They may be required to contribute to various projects and/or the introduction of new initiatives, systems, products/services and processes and coordinate necessary expertise across multiple operations functions and/or products.

Responsibilities:
· Delivers highly complex regulatory reports to regulatory agencies in line with expectations on completeness, accuracy, quality, and timeliness
· Defines and executes control practices, including compliance with all regulatory and policy requirements, including data quality standards
· Ensures that key risks, performance indicators, and desktop procedures are fully documented, in line with enterprise standards, reviewed on a regular basis and challenged and escalated where necessary
· Responds to inquiries from regulatory agencies and internal control partners (e.g., Audit and Compliance), and provides reporting, as needed
· Establishes credible, collaborative and influential relationships with key senior stakeholders, including FLU and Front Office partners
· Identifies, tracks, and remediates errors, breaches, data issues and control enhancements that impact the respective reports
· Coordinates the partnership with upstream process owners and data providers to improve data quality of regulatory reports, and with Non Financial Regulatory Reporting Interpretation and Technology teams to review and maintain data dictionaries for completeness of business requirements and ensure completeness of all operational and reporting requirements

Responsibilities:

• Delivers moderately complex regulatory reports to regulatory agencies in line with expectations on completeness, accuracy, and timeliness
• Executes control practices, including compliance with all regulatory and policy requirements, including data quality standards
• Documents key risks, performance indicators, desktop procedures, controls and metrics related to reporting, and executes quality assurance, quality control, and report production tasks for regulatory reports
• Supports the response to regulatory agencies and internal control partners on inquiries and reporting breaches
• Participates in the representation of the reporting function to control partners (e.g., Audit and Compliance)
• Identifies, tracks, and remediates errors, breaches, data issues, and control enhancements that impact reports
• Contributes to the partnerships with key stakeholders, including upstream process owners, data providers, and Non-Financial Regulatory Reporting Interpretation and Technology teams

Skills:

• Problem Solving
• Reporting
• Attention to Detail
• Critical Thinking
• Data Quality Management
• Prioritization
• Risk Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Mining
• Decision Making

Required Skills:

• Experience in Equity Aggregation monitoring and disclosures (also known as Position Reporting, Shareholding Disclosures, Disclosure of Interest)
• Strong knowledge of financial markets, banking industry, equities and derivative products.
• High level understanding of global markets and wealth management business divisions.
• Strong technical and data analytical skills (i.e., Excel, and other similar applications) with experience in analyzing, managing and reporting from large sets of structured data (e.g., books and records data).
• Able to produce accurate work output and reports under tight deadlines
• Communicates effectively in both oral and written formats and tailors message appropriately to audience
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and operational excellence experience
• Able to think critically to quickly analyze and resolve issues
• Influences and delivers results through collaborative relationship with key partners and stakeholders
• Works independently to prioritize work and deliver against regulatory deadlines and a dynamic environment • Able to demonstrate a high level of integrity with a mature approach to work
• Discrete when handling confidential information

Desired Skills:

• Regulatory reporting experience