Analyst - System Administration Support jobs at Bank Of America in India, Mumbai

∙ Resolution and escalation of matched and unmatched trades
∙ Timely response to client queries regarding the settlement of their trades
∙ Client Fails Reporting
∙ Buy in avoidance
∙ Liaising with other internal departments to ensure timely resolution of Client fails
∙ Involvement in ad hoc projects for new processes or industry initiatives

Responsibilities:

• Perform document gap analysis by reviewing available documentation and evaluating information available for India jurisdiction.

• Liaise with sales/client teams to obtain and validate correct documentation.

• Process AML/CDD by enriching onboarding requests in the system and performing enhanced due diligence as required.

• Support creation of key business metrics.

• Liaise with internal departments to support KYC issues - Involvement in ad hoc projects for new processes or industry initiatives.

• Participate in remediation, internal/external Audits Requirements
  Experience in similar role (preferred)

• Control focused mindset and good understanding of regulatory and reputational risks.
  (knowledge of India requirements a plus)

• Excellent communications skills and ability to present to an audience.

• Ability to work under pressure in a team environment.

• Ability to liaise with all levels of the firm and people with different experiences and backgrounds.

• Self-motivated. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is an equal opportunities employer.

Skills:

• 5-6 years’ experience in AML/KYC roles.

• Relevant experience on Client Due Diligence review on Corporate clients, Knowledge of APAC regulations (India regulations preferred).

• Control focused mindset and good understanding of regulatory and reputational risks.

• Excellent communications skills and ability to present to audience.

• Ability to work under pressure in a team environment.

• Ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders and deal with people with different experiences and backgrounds and be able to get work done.

• Self-motivated and assertive.

Process Overview*

Global Information Security (GIS) functions by analyzing, researching, improving, defining, implementing, and executing information security processes defined, in large part, by past high profile audit issues. Key responsibilities include Data Quality management of closed manually identified P2 vulnerabilities, developing an understanding of the LOBs that report vulnerabilities via manual flat file to GIS, following standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data, and supporting team members in performing specialized GIS functions, primarily Data Quality assurance. Job expectations include partnering with teams inside, and outside, of GIS, inclusive of GIS, CTI, EET, APS&E, GT Risk, and others.

Job Description*

Position will be a member of the Third Party Cyber Security Alternative Assurance Program (TPAAp) organization in Global Information Security (GIS), responsible for conducting information security assessments of third parties by reviewing independent audit reports (e.g., SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS RoC) or Self Attestation / Assessment reports (e.g., SIG, PCI DSS AoC) to document a point of view on the information security posture of the third party. The position will be a key player in driving strategic initiatives focused on the design of Third Party Alternative Assurance (TPAA) program requirements, governance routines, consequence processes, and third party risk metrics and reporting. In addition to supporting strategic initiatives, the position will include analyzing and interpreting diverse information security risk indicators to deliver actionable insights into third party information security risk and enable prioritized cyber security assurance approaches. Position requires interaction with the third party cyber assessment team, technical subject matter experts, GIS Policy, and the internal and external third party management community.

Responsibilities*

• Candidates must have at least 8-10 years of relevant experience. (Previous information technology/security audit/assessment experience is a plus.).
• Previous security audit/assessment or remediation experience.
• Previous experience reviewing independent audit reports / certification (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS RoC).
• Previous experience reviewing self attestation / assessment reports (e.g., SIG, PCI DSS AoC).
• Self-starting, organized, and requiring minimal management oversight.
• Ability to operate across organizational boundaries and hierarchies to accomplish tasks.
• Strong analytical skills/problem solving/conceptual thinking/attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively with peers and various levels of management.
• Well organized and thorough, with the ability to balance and prioritize.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across multiple levels of the organization.

Requirements*

Education* :B.E. / B Tech / M.E. / M Tech / MCA / M.Sc.,

Certifications (If Any) :ISO 27001 LA, Ethical Hacking, CISA, CISM

6 - 9 years

Foundational Skills*

• Experience in Information Security Management
• Experience in Governance, Risk & Compliance
• Experience in internal or external audits
• Experience with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 control frameworks.
• Experience in implementing or reviewing ISO 27001, PCI, SOX, etc., controls
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills

Desired Skills*

• Knowledge in Vulnerability Assessments and Application Architecture
• Cloud Security
• Understanding of Networking, Systems Admin, Cryptography, Access Management

Work Timings* :1:30 PM - 10:30 PM

HYD, MUM, CHN

Job Description:

Job Description:

This Senior Equity Research role is responsible for analyzing a private or public organization's capital structure and evaluating investment and credit risk in the India Nonbank Financial sector. Key responsibilities include monitoring capital markets and/or individual companies' business position, providing data-driven insights regarding the future performance of the company's securities or capital markets, and communicating recommendations to institutional clients. Job expectations include having extensive industry knowledge and providing judgment based on research findings to team members.

Responsibilities:

• Leverages insights gathered from research to provide recommendations on the purchase, sale, or holding of securities to institutional clients
• Collects information related to the prices, sales, government programs, and market trends, develops sales strategies accordingly, and communicates recommendations on the purchase, sale, or holding of the company's securities to clients
• Analyses the organization's capital structure and prepares reports and presentations for institutional clients and industry groups to communicate future performance of the company's securities or capital markets
• Creates notes and reports on economics, markets, and/or industries, while researching sector trends that may impact company recommendations
• Develops and maintains databases and indicators for critical research products, while producing collaborative reports with analysis findings

Skills:

• Client Management
• Relationship Building
• Financial Forecasting and Modelling
• Research Analysis
• Technical Documentation
• Business Analytics
• Business Intelligence
• Data and Trend Analysis
• Trading and Investment Analysis
• Financial Analysis
• Profitability Analysis
• Causation Analysis
• Research
• Written Communications

Process Overview*

Global Information Security (GIS) functions by analyzing, researching, improving, defining, implementing, and executing information security processes defined, in large part, by past high profile audit issues. Key responsibilities include Data Quality management of closed manually identified P2 vulnerabilities, developing an understanding of the LOBs that report vulnerabilities via manual flat file to GIS, following standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data, and supporting team members in performing specialized GIS functions, primarily Data Quality assurance. Job expectations include partnering with teams inside, and outside, of GIS, inclusive of GIS, CTI, EET, APS&E, GT Risk, and others.

Job Description*

Position will be a member of the Third Party Cyber Security Alternative Assurance Program (TPAAp) organization in Global Information Security (GIS), responsible for conducting information security assessments of third parties by reviewing independent audit reports (e.g., SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS RoC) or Self Attestation / Assessment reports (e.g., SIG, PCI DSS AoC) to document a point of view on the information security posture of the third party. The position will be a key player in driving strategic initiatives focused on the design of Third Party Alternative Assurance (TPAA) program requirements, governance routines, consequence processes, and third party risk metrics and reporting. In addition to supporting strategic initiatives, the position will include analyzing and interpreting diverse information security risk indicators to deliver actionable insights into third party information security risk and enable prioritized cyber security assurance approaches. Position requires interaction with the third party cyber assessment team, technical subject matter experts, GIS Policy, and the internal and external third party management community.

Responsibilities*

• Candidates must have at least 8-10 years of relevant experience. (Previous information technology/security audit/assessment experience is a plus.).
• Previous security audit/assessment or remediation experience.
• Previous experience reviewing independent audit reports / certification (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS RoC).
• Previous experience reviewing self attestation / assessment reports (e.g., SIG, PCI DSS AoC).
• Self-starting, organized, and requiring minimal management oversight.
• Ability to operate across organizational boundaries and hierarchies to accomplish tasks.
• Strong analytical skills/problem solving/conceptual thinking/attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively with peers and various levels of management.
• Well organized and thorough, with the ability to balance and prioritize.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across multiple levels of the organization.

Requirements*

Education* :B.E. / B Tech / M.E. / M Tech / MCA / M.Sc.,

Certifications (If Any) :ISO 27001 LA, Ethical Hacking, CISA, CISM

6 - 9 years

Foundational Skills*

• Experience in Information Security Management
• Experience in Governance, Risk & Compliance
• Experience in internal or external audits
• Experience with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 control frameworks.
• Experience in implementing or reviewing ISO 27001, PCI, SOX, etc., controls
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills

Desired Skills*

• Knowledge in Vulnerability Assessments and Application Architecture
• Cloud Security
• Understanding of Networking, Systems Admin, Cryptography, Access Management

Work Timings* :1:30 PM - 10:30 PM

HYD, MUM, CHN

Responsibilities*

• Participating in the production of routine including review and analysis of report output
• Managing several critical reporting and governance routines, such as regulatory filings and board and committee input preparation
• Fielding ad-hoc questions on the report from regulators, internal senior risk leaders, and audit partners
• Implementation and monitoring of new limits
• Developing new materials or analyses as needed
• Automate processes where needed via Python coding, excel, or other similar
• Maintain and develop documentation on processes where needed
• Liaising with technology and data partners to correct issues discovered as part of the analysis process
• Ensuring a strong control environment and participating in the execution of control routines
• Maintain and develop documentation on processes where needed

Requirements*

• Education*
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Engineering, Commerce, CA, MBA
• Certifications If Any
• CFA, FRM etc. will be an added advantage
• Experience Range*
  • 5 – 7 years
• Foundational skills*
• Experience in a trading / market risk related field
• Intellectually curious with the ability to investigate and develop root cause analysis for portfolio changes
• Experience working with large data sets
• Experience with Python or other similar languages
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Adept at communication with ability to influence co-workers across our global team and all levels of the organization including escalation of issues
• Ability to aggregate and synthesize complex data from multiple sources
• High level of attention to detail

• Desired skills*
• Effective time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple high priority deliverables simultaneously
• Experience and understanding of common market risk metrics like Value at Risk (VaR)
• Experience with regulatory reporting, regulatory exams, and/or audit

Work Timings*

12 Noon to 9 pm IST

Job Location*

Mumbai & Hyderabad

Overview ( Bank of America overview, BA Continuum India overview, Business Overview)

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.

BA Continuum is a nonbank subsidiary of Bank of America, part of our Global Delivery Center of Expertise in the bank. Our employees help our customers and clients at every stage of their financial lives, helping them connect to what matters most. This purpose defines and unites us. Every day, we are focused on delivering value, convenience, expertise and innovation for the individuals, businesses and institutional investors we serve worldwide.

BA Continuum India Pvt. Ltd. supports business process, information technology and knowledge process across Consumer Banking, including Card and Home Loans, Legacy Asset Servicing, Global Banking and Markets, and Global Wealth and Investment Management lines of business at Bank of America.

We are a part of the Global Business Services which delivers technology and operations capabilities to all Bank of America lines of business (LOB) and enterprise functions. Our employees help our customers and clients at every stage of their financial lives, helping them connect to what matters most. This purpose defines and unites us. Every day, we are focused on delivering value, convenience, expertise and innovation for the individuals, businesses and institutional investors we serve worldwide.

We’re committed to attracting and retaining top talent across the globe to ensure our continued success. Along with taking care of our customers, we want to be the best place for people to work and aim at creating a work environment where all employees have the opportunity to achieve their goals.

The Global Markets Group is a market leader in providing world-class service to a wide range of clients. This team operates at the center of the world’s debt and equity markets. They provide sales and trading services, liquidity, hedging strategies and industry-leading insights, analytics and competitive pricing to more than 9,000 institutional clients across six continents.

The Global Equities group includes Institutional Derivatives Sales, Derivative and Convertible Trading, Institutional Equity Sales, Equity Trading, Electronic Trading Services, Prime Brokerage and OTC Trading. Global Equities provides marketing, structuring and trading of listed and customized equity products for its clients.

As a team member, your role offers market-making, financing, securities-clearing, settlement and custody services globally to our institutional investor clients in support of their investing and trading activities. The team also works with commercial and corporate clients to provide risk management products using interest rate, equity, credit, currency and commodity derivatives; foreign exchange; fixed-income; and mortgage-related products.

Job Description (Overview of Role)

The role entails working with various Equities desks like Electronic Sales, Execution Services to understand and to provide support in projects for Equity COO, Sales Trading updates, Analyst cost optimization, FICC and FX Prime Brokerage etc.

These services will include- reconciliation, reaffirmation, verification of counterparty (Hedge Fund) data with Merrill Lynch system data and any other related activities like maintaining dashboards, updating invoices, highlighting breaks, and preparing monthly summary/dashboards for internal reporting purposes.

Responsibilities

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• Trade reconciliation, Trade reconfirmation across Merrill Lynch and client systems
• Track business performance based on fee agreements with various clients
• Consolidate, analyze and report business / client information
• Run analytics and distribute expense reports broken down by business and geographies to provide the management with a view on client expenditure
• Run reports on monitoring compliance for salespersons in terms of restrictions on trades, adherence to KYC parameters etc.
• Organize, collate and distribute large datasets. Examples can include collating the latest financial models created by the BofA Research team and then sending then out to Salespersons
• Log expense reports from global salespersons’ expenditure and ensure follow-ups for timely clearance of dues from our internal payment systems
• Capture data from receipts and invoices sent by LOB and input this data to bank’s applications / systems
• Compile news reports, research reports across sectors to create comprehensive product reports
• Create Presentations for the business pertaining to these activities
• Process management of various client related functions and reporting within specified timeline
• Prepare MIS and Reporting to stakeholders
• Respond and follow up with LOB partners for data requirements
• Adhoc projects on business support and Sales strategy deliverables
• Effectively communicate business, technical and product information at all levels
• Understand Bank of America policies on Compliance, Expenses etc. and reporting deviances if any

Requirements

• Graduates in commerce, banking/ B.Com/ BBA/ MMS / MBA / MMS from top tier universities – 1-3 yrs experience preferred
• Experience in Mutual Funds, Insurance and Accounting or back office operations.
• Basic understanding of financial terminologies (Futures, Options, MBS, etc) is a plus
• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization; including management
• Ability to synthesize information from various documents/sources
• Ability to independently host calls and lead discussions with senior executives and stakeholders to arrive at business solutions
• Good research and analytical skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, VBA, Python and AI )
• Strong Written and Oral Communication
• Ability to maintain high standards despite pressing deadlines
• Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
• Strong knowledge of general business and corporate cultures
• Strong analytical skills in terms of identifying trends in data
• Ability to work well under pressure, adapt to unexpected events, prioritize and multi-task in a deadline driven environment
• Must have excellent judgment; independent thinker and resourceful
• Prior experience in Financial Services support preferred
• Attention to details
• Willingness to learn
• Strong work ethic
• Team player

Desired Skills

• Speaking / presentation skills in a professional setting
• Applicants with exposure to Alteryx/Tableau/VBA will be preferred
• Strong Customer Service skills
• Propensity to work of public holidays including weekends and long hours
• Certifications If Any

Location: Mumbai

Shift timing: 12.30 pm to 9.30 pm, Shift timings are subjective to change depending upon the business requirements. Associates should be flexible enough to work in the revised shifts