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Global Financial Crimes Manager

AT Merrill
Merrill

Global Financial Crimes Manager

Charlotte, NC

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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for executing substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include working directly or through compliance officers for the Front Line Units (FLUs) and Control Functions (CFs) to complete compliance, policy, operational/fraud risk management requirements.

Responsibilities:

  • Advises and directs 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
  • Produces and/or oversees independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders
  • Monitors the 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
  • Participates in industry forums and monitors regulatory expectations, emerging legislation and regulation, political scrutiny, litigation and key influencers to identify and mitigate emerging risks
  • Escalates financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees
  • Identifies, aggregates, reports, escalates, inspects, and challenges the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes
  • Reviews and challenges internal and external operational loss events, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately

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: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company D&I 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:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Risk Management
  • Coaching
  • Issue Management
  • Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
  • Strategy Planning and Development
  • Written Communications
  • External Resource Management
  • Reporting
  • Talent Development

Required Qualifications:

  • 5 or more years of Financial Crimes or relevant work experience
  • Process Map and Journey Development and Design skills - intermediate
  • Change management or project management experience
  • Experience with and strong knowledge of business process management methodology
  • Strong and effective communication and presentations skills, verbal and written.
  • Ability to solve complex problems through root cause analysis, management by fact and collaboration across wide constituency.
  • Solutions oriented - utilize critical thinking skills / business acumen and resources to make sound business decisions and reduce risk.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; often with a high degree of ambiguity and prioritizing manage multiple priorities.
  • Highly organized and able to effectively multi-task.


Desired Qualifications:


  • Technical skills - SharePoint, Tableau, Investigations applications
  • Comfortable navigating through difficult, complex, or ambiguous situations
  • Certifications: ACAMS - Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist
  • Green Belt or Black Belt certified.

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Client-provided location(s): Charlotte, NC, USA
Job ID: Merrill-JR-24037457
Employment Type: Full Time