Transaction Management Ops Analyst - Securities jobs at Bank Of America in United States, Dallas

Job Description:

Merrill is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

Job Description:

This job is responsible for providing client service support to potentially multiple Financial Advisors (FAs). Key responsibilities include supporting enterprise strategic objectives, operational excellence goals, and client advocacy within the FA's business, while customizing solutions based on their specific needs. Job expectations include serving as the most frequent point of contact within Merrill to address all service needs of their clients.

Responsibilities:

• Provides excellent Client Service to the bank's clients through educating them on all of the bank's service and banking offerings
• Ensures timeliness, accuracy, and completeness in client materials and follows up on all client and Financial Advisor (FA) requests
• Assists with ensuring practices are in alignment with the bank's policies and procedures to support operational excellence, protect the bank's clients, and manage risk
• Identifies, deepens, and maintains client relationships through emphasizing the bank's offerings and promoting incorporation of banking into day-to-day practices, while communicating outputs to the FA
• Supports day-to-day team activities and needs including covering roles in times of absence or seasonal need increases, while leading with a client first mindset

Required Qualifications:

• FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE), Series 7, 63/65 or 66
• Displays advanced industry knowledge and understanding of investment products

Desired Qualifications:

• Energetic individual that is self-motivated, coachable and flexible in thought
• Enjoys a fast-paced environment with changing and evolving responsibilities
• Detail oriented
• Invested in personal development
• Consistently pursues client experience excellence
• Works quickly to fulfill client needs, delivering complex solutions
• Frequent communication and an abundance of discretion with sensitive information
• Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint experience with Salesforce a plus
• Professional verbal and written communication​

Skills:

• Account Management
• Client Management
• Customer and Client Focus
• Issue Management
• Oral Communications
• Business Development
• Client Solutions Advisory
• Pipeline Management
• Prioritization
• Administrative Services
• Emotional Intelligence
• Referral Identification
• Written Communications

Minimum Education Requirement:High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

This job is responsible for handling complex and escalated customer situations regarding possible fraudulent account activity. Key responsibilities include receiving inbound calls and takes appropriate action requiring accuracy on complex transactions. Job expectations include performing functions related to research and resolution of fraudulent activity, service support, and delivering practical, innovative solutions to clients while focusing on retention and re-establishing client confidence.
Responsibilities:

• ​Initiate Maintenance on accounts.

• Provide Excellent Customer Treatment.

• Process Client initiated forms and assist with all issues that may arise.​

Requirements:

• ​Strong customer service skills

• Flexible and willing to respond positively to change

• Ability to apply sound judgment, effectively solve problems, and determine fraudulent activity consistently

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to de-escalate difficult client situations

• Ability to multi-task as business needs dictate with phone and typing required

• Ability to work in a client based environment meeting goals

• Flexible with schedule as business needs arise

• Must have a strong and positive work ethic and follow Bank of America's Core Values

• Must be flexible and adapt quickly to change​

High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

This job is responsible for moderately complex transaction and fulfillment processing, including the movement of assets into and out of accounts. Key responsibilities include reconciliation, settlement, and trade and transfer support, and providing quality service and operations support for internal business partners and external clients, in accordance with established guidelines and procedures. Job expectations include handling in operational processes which may carry medium to high levels of monetary risk and assisting in training less experienced team members.

Responsibilities:

• Performs moderately complex transaction processing and reconciliation with medium to large monetary impact according to the established written guidelines and procedures
• Responds to moderately complex client inquiries via numerous channels to support operational efficiency and quality client service
• Responsible for the analysis and resolution of moderately complex transactions requiring escalations and exceptions
• Proactively identifies risk and opportunities for process improvements based on an understanding of how the work impacts other operational units

Skills:

• Attention to Detail
• Customer and Client Focus
• Oral Communications
• Prioritization
• Problem Solving
• Account Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Coaching
• Written Communications
• Mentoring
• Research
• Result Orientation

What you'll do:

• Ensure trades that are executed by Financial Advisors (FAs) / Investment Managers are booked timely and accurately to client accounts
• Eliminate risks by proactively monitoring workflow, serving as quality control and escalating issues as appropriate while engaging the right leaders and partners
• Serve as or assist the trade allocation subject matter expert to problem-solve complex/escalated issues and provide training and support to the processors
• Pull reports, analyze data and place data in a usable format for dialogue and decision-making including daily statistics and metrics for Single Process Inventory
• Document and summarize team issues in a logical easy to read manner
• Support quality assurance routines as needed depending on volumes.​

Required Skills:

• Minimum two years of experience working in broker dealer operations with knowledge of common operational issues, controls and quality assurance (QA)
• Prior experience serving as lead in an operational environment or currently working as a consistently high performing GWIM Service Operations Representative
• Must be able to give clear effective examples of past successes in teamwork, use of analytical skills, time and organizational self-management, flexibility to a changing environment and ability to work in a fast paced deadline-driven environment.
• Intermediate experience with Microsoft Word and Excel to include formulas, running saved macros and pivot tables
• Proven experience with presenting and writing information clearly, concisely and grammatically correct
• Demonstrated experience with effectively reviewing documents/information and quickly identifying errors, while understanding the cause of the error and taking action to implement sustainable solutions
• Self-motivated, proactive and able work with minimal supervision

Desired Skills:

• Prior trade support experience
• Series 7 license
• Experience with Managed Products

Job Description:

Merrill is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

This job is responsible for providing client service support to potentially multiple Financial Advisors (FAs). Key responsibilities include supporting enterprise strategic objectives, operational excellence goals, and client advocacy within the FA's business, while customizing solutions based on their specific needs. Job expectations include serving as the most frequent point of contact within Merrill to address all service needs of their clients.

Responsibilities:

• Provides excellent Client Service to the bank's clients through educating them on all of the bank's service and banking offerings
• Ensures timeliness, accuracy, and completeness in client materials and follows up on all client and Financial Advisor (FA) requests
• Assists with ensuring practices are in alignment with the bank's policies and procedures to support operational excellence, protect the bank's clients, and manage risk
• Identifies, deepens, and maintains client relationships through emphasizing the bank's offerings and promoting incorporation of banking into day-to-day practices, while communicating outputs to the FA
• Supports day-to-day team activities and needs including covering roles in times of absence or seasonal need increases, while leading with a client first mindset

Skills:

• Account Management
• Client Management
• Customer and Client Focus
• Issue Management
• Oral Communications
• Business Development
• Client Solutions Advisory
• Pipeline Management
• Prioritization
• Administrative Services
• Emotional Intelligence
• Referral Identification
• Written Communications

High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

• Performs standard transaction processing and reconciliation according to the established written guidelines and procedures
• Responds to client inquiries via numerous channels to support operational efficiency and quality client service
• Performs basic research, follow-up and resolution of routine research requests
• Identifies potential issues in daily operational tasks and escalates risk concerns, as needed
• Provides general operational support including handling inbound calls, mail sorting, and mail distribution

• Attention to Detail
• Client and Business Focus
• Excellent Oral Communication
• Problem Solving
• Recording/Organizing Information
• Excellent Written Communication
• Account Management
• Analytical and Critical Thinking
• Prioritization
• Collaboration
• Research
• Result Orientation
• Financial Accounting

• 1+ years workflow management related experience
• PC skills (Excel a plus)
• Ability to make sound decisions, solve problems and exhibit a continuous improvement orientation
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope and timeline
• Ability to efficiently multi-task with excellent time management

• Adaptability
• Attention to Detail
• Business Operations Management
• Client and Business Focus
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
• Collaboration
• Issue Management
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Prioritization
• Problem Solving
• Confronting Bias​
• Self Starter

Job Description:

Merrill is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

Job Description:

This job is responsible for providing client service support to potentially multiple Financial Advisors (FAs). Key responsibilities include supporting enterprise strategic objectives, operational excellence goals, and client advocacy within the FA's business, while customizing solutions based on their specific needs. Job expectations include serving as the most frequent point of contact within Merrill to address all service needs of their clients.

Responsibilities:

• Provides excellent Client Service to the bank's clients through educating them on all of the bank's service and banking offerings
• Ensures timeliness, accuracy, and completeness in client materials and follows up on all client and Financial Advisor (FA) requests
• Assists with ensuring practices are in alignment with the bank's policies and procedures to support operational excellence, protect the bank's clients, and manage risk
• Identifies, deepens, and maintains client relationships through emphasizing the bank's offerings and promoting incorporation of banking into day-to-day practices, while communicating outputs to the FA
• Supports day-to-day team activities and needs including covering roles in times of absence or seasonal need increases, while leading with a client first mindset

Required Qualifications:

• FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE), Series 7, 63/65 or 66
• Displays advanced industry knowledge and understanding of investment products

Desired Qualifications:

• Energetic individual that is self-motivated, coachable and flexible in thought
• Enjoys a fast-paced environment with changing and evolving responsibilities
• Detail oriented
• Invested in personal development
• Consistently pursues client experience excellence
• Works quickly to fulfill client needs, delivering complex solutions
• Frequent communication and an abundance of discretion with sensitive information
• Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint experience with Salesforce a plus
• Professional verbal and written communication​

Skills:

• Account Management
• Client Management
• Customer and Client Focus
• Issue Management
• Oral Communications
• Business Development
• Client Solutions Advisory
• Pipeline Management
• Prioritization
• Administrative Services
• Emotional Intelligence
• Referral Identification
• Written Communications

Minimum Education Requirement:High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

This job is responsible for analyzing the day-to-day issues, researching, and providing resolution for various issues identified within a business unit. Key responsibilities include building new procedures, completing complex non-routine analytics, creating reports, and reviewing exception testing and processing. Job expectations include supporting continuous improvement of processes by identifying trends and understanding the operations environment.

LOB Job Description:

Responsible for the day-to-day resolution of complex operational accounting functions / issues including in depth analysis. The incumbent will take appropriate action based on process characteristics of extremely complex issues related to all operational accounting functions. Must be considered a subject matter expert in operational accounting policies and routines. Complex decisions are made based on analytical research and judgment. Requires extensive experience and must follow established procedures & guidelines while utilizing multiple systems & tools. Handles escalated situations that were unable to be resolved by the Accounting Specialist. Provides coaching and training to other associates. Ensures compliance with Federal and Bank Regulations. Excellent communication and follow up skills required. To appropriately investigate and decision issues, incumbent will interact with multiple business partners. Communication includes process education, operational accounting education, setting appropriate expectations or skillfully defusing the situation.

: Monday through Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm

Responsibilities:

• Leads implementation for products, services, and operational solutions
• Manages the design, documentation, implementation, and monitoring of new products and services
• Consults on procedural, technical, and operational changes
• Advances business products knowledge within operations environment
• Fosters relationships with partners and teammates
• Inspects data to identify issues and trends
• Presents reporting on key performance and implementation status

Required Qualifications:

• Cash Exception Platform reconciliation experience (Deposits)
• Recon Plus Frontier reconciliation experience (Dispense)
• Accounting / Operations experience
• Previous experience with general ledger
• Thorough understanding of debits and credits
• Exhibit excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate the ability to multi-task, strong attention to detail, proficient with numbers and effective organizational skills
• Strives to bring new thoughts and ideas to teams in order to drive innovation and unique solutions, be a continuous learner
• Excels in working among diverse viewpoints to determine best practice to understand future business needs
• The ability to coach and train on all levels
• Strong technical and analytical skills
• Self-motivated and results oriented
• Operational accounting experience along with working knowledge of processes to include applicable policies and regulations

Skills:

• Attention to Detail
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
• Regulatory Compliance
• Written Communications
• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• Continuous Improvement
• Critical Thinking
• Process Mapping
• Change Management
• Consulting
• Data Management
• Reporting
• Research