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Global Financial Crimes Executive - Sanctions Program Manager

AT Merrill
Merrill

Global Financial Crimes Executive - Sanctions Program Manager

Atlanta, GA

Job Description:

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Job Description:
The Global Financial Crime ("GFC") Executive I contributes to the direction and drives the development of enterprise-wide money laundering, economic sanctions, and fraud compliance and operational risk practices consistent with applicable laws, rules, regulations, and regulatory guidance. The GFC Executive I serves as a trusted advisor to the Chief Compliance and Operational Risk ("C&OR") Officers of the Front Line Units ("FLU") and Control Functions ("CF") for the company and to the leaders of the FLUs and CFs directly.

The Sanctions Program Manager is a new critical role in leading and managing the bank's global economic sanctions program execution and ensuring it aligns with both global regulations and internal policies.

This person will have responsibility for target skills and training, as well as business controls and metrics, sanctions remediation work, and overseeing program execution as regulatory and geopolitical environments evolve.

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.

  • Diversity & Inclusion Champion: Breaks down barriers to create a more inclusive environment that supports company D&I goals.
  • Manager of Process & Data: Challenges end-to-end process efficiency and effectiveness, champion data driven decision-making and removes obstacles to optimize operations.
  • Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Contributes to enterprise strategy and influence messaging to connect team contributions to business purpose, results, and success.
  • Risk Manager: Inspects and challenges risk controls, governance, and culture to ensure the timely identification, escalation, debate and remediation of risk across the organization.
  • People Manager & Coach: Coaches to sustain and elevates organizational performance while differentiating to ensure pay for performance.
  • Financial Steward: Efficiently allocates and manages resources across the organization to drive short- and long-term profitability.
  • Enterprise Talent Leader: Inspects and manages the health of the bench to ensure succession for the organization, while supporting enterprise talent needs.
  • Driver of Business Outcomes: Mobilizes organizational resources to deliver the full range of the bank's capabilities to meet client needs and to gain competitive advantage.

Skills:

  • Change Management
  • Decision Making
  • External Resource Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Strategy Planning and Development
  • Issue Management
  • Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
  • Risk Management
  • Talent Development
  • Written Communications
  • Coaching
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Investigation Management

Required Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of executive level experience in AML/Sanctions compliance or equivalent
  • Experience with U.S., and ideally also with international, sanctions interpretation, due diligence, alert review, issue management, and regulatory engagement
  • Executive level and Board level communication experience
  • Experience interacting and problem solving effectively with business executives, counsel, and industry groups
  • Experience leading teams and initiatives

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - DC - Washington - 1800 K St NW - 1800 K Street NW (DC1842), US - NY - New York - ONE BRYANT PARK - BANK OF AMERICA TOWER (NY1100)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$175,000.00 - $300,000.00 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.

Client-provided location(s): Atlanta, GA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Charlotte, NC, USA; Washington, DC, USA; Chicago, IL, USA
Job ID: Merrill-JR-24036653
Employment Type: Full Time