Business Control Manager

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 supporting the Consumer Investments Controls & Supervision organization to create a best-in-class overall client experience and risk controls environment. The role will focus on supporting the Platform & Product Controls team with, mitigating risk, triaging platform incidents with key stakeholders, and preparing Business Continuity plans for major market events. The role will specifically focus on key areas within the team, including but not limited to managing real-time platform incidents and proactive approaches to major market events. The candidate must be comfortable in developing relationships that are necessary to achieve resolution and project management while navigating a complex organization.  In addition, development and ongoing review of templates, playbooks and other critical information. The position also will help to identify business risk and associates controls in order to mitigate operational, systematic, reputational, operational and credit risk. This individual will help establish communication forums with internal clients and business partners, identify opportunities to improve internal processes. The candidates will also help establish action plans for initiatives/projects to help move the business forward. The desired candidate will possess a committed focus on meeting client needs while focusing on associate experience and always exceeding expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the assessment of the design and effectiveness of the risk and control environment to support Client Operational Services and ensure adherence to enterprise-wide standards
• Performs monitoring and testing of controls, identifying issues and control improvements for remediation
• Leads the implementation of optimized controls and enhanced Quality Assurance (QA) practices to support business continuity efforts
• Manages the performance and productivity of team members that conduct quality inspection reviews
• Ensures timely execution of QA activities including control execution, case management, and results reporting
• Manages and reviews all operations front line unit responses for regulatory exams, internal audits, and other monitoring and inspection reviews
• Ensures accuracy of data and that relevant information is captured for inspection metrics to support governance for dashboard reporting

Required Qualifications:

• 3 or more years work experience in financial services
• Understanding of Merrill Edge clients and business
• Demonstrates leadership, leading through change and process improvements to deliver results
• Strong analytical capability to drive root cause analysis, demonstrate attention to detail, deliver concise and value added reporting
• Demonstrated creative resolution development, problem solving, and follow up skills
• Self-starter able to work independently, with minimal oversight and guidance
• Ability to quickly develop subject matter expertise across a broad spectrum of issues
• Strong organization skills, including the ability to manage multiple responsibilities, prioritize and meet deadlines
• Advanced in MS Excel functions
• Ability to shift priorities on short notice
• Solid presentation skills
• Provide statistical analysis to identify trends and outlier metric

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Consumer Investments Operational processes
• Ability to review data and provide analytical perspective
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills

Job Code specific

This job is responsible for leading and executing on internal control discipline and operational excellence within a Line of Business (LOB) or Enterprise Control Function (ECF). Key responsibilities include executing LOB or ECF processes and tools to drive adherence to enterprise-wide standards. Job expectations include supporting the implementation of quality assurance and quality control processes within the LOB or ECF through ongoing monitoring and testing of controls, identifying issues and control improvements for remediation, and building out actions plans and milestones.

Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Skills:

• Controls Management
• Issue Management
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Risk Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Written Communications
• Decision Making
• Innovative Thinking
• Prioritization
• Recording/Organizing Information
• Research

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - MD - Hunt Valley - 11333 MCCORMICK RD - HUNT VALLEY (MD5031), US - NJ - Pennington - 1500 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 5 (NJ2150), US - RI - Lincoln - 670 George Washington Hwy (RI1541)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$104,000.00 - $159,900.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.