Credit Analyst Iii/hedge Funds - Global Markets jobs at Bank Of America in United States, New York

This job is responsible for supporting project or testing activities in an operation department or Line of Business, researching and documenting organizational reviews, and conducting workflow analysis, data preparation, and triggering. Key responsibilities include pulling testing output and comparing to templates/requirements, opening defects, updating statuses, and analyzing data. Job expectations include resolving complex problems based on business knowledge and defined project guidelines, executing test scripts, and partnering with Development teams to resolve defects.

Responsibilities:

• Supports the Testing team in gaining an understanding of changes being executed, writing and executing scripts, completing data preparation, and conditioning and triggering events
• Leads the resolution of defects, providing necessary documentation, and communicating with Development resources and project stakeholders on resolution and retest statuses
• Coordinates with the business to execute on defined project tasks, including tracking of deliverables and their statuses, measuring progress against ongoing success measures, and escalating roadblocks in a timely manner
• Analyzes current state processes, operations, procedures, and workflows and discovers pain points to develop approaches for potential solutions, including building a business case for improvement recommendations and driving the execution of implementation
• Manages and administers key activities to support medium to large projects, such as coordination of change related activities, reporting, and testing
• Communicates at all levels with business owners, stakeholders, and subject matter experts on all matters related to projects, such as the project plan, risks, issues, scope, assumptions, gap analysis, business requirements, and development of test plans and scripts

Skills:

• Attention to Detail
• Written Communications
• Active Listening
• Collaboration
• Oral Communications
• Prioritization
• Problem Solving
• Critical Thinking
• Risk Management

High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

LOB Description:

Provides technical and analytical support in Global Operations function for one or more product areas. Responsible for the analysis and resolution of moderately complex operations problems and initiatives requiring exception handling and working with multiple operational and/or product specialists to resolve. May participate in projects and/or introduction of new initiatives, systems, products/services and processes. As a technical expert, acts as a unit advisor providing technical support to less experienced associates. This role typically requires 3+ years' experience in operations functions and a thorough working knowledge of the operational aspects of transactions and products.

Required Skills:
* ​1 year of project management participation and/or User Acceptance Testing experience

Strong leadership skills
* Strong technical and analytical skills

An understanding of project management, technology, and ability to utilize that understanding to problem solve and recommend process improvements.
Strong oral and written communication skills

Ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously
* Ability to facilitate meetings and document next steps

Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization (written and verbal)
* Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills

Self-motivated with the ability to work independently

Ability to work effectively with Operations and Technology groups throughout the firm

Must be adaptable, independent leader capable of assessing business problems, project deliverables and interdependencies holistically, and managing and escalating issues/risks to key stakeholders and leadership in a timely fashion.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where business needs/ priorities may change

Excellent time management skills and ability to juggle multiple competing priorities
* System development or Agile project management experience is an advantage
* Strong User Acceptance Testing (UAT) experience
* Microsoft Office Suite Proficiency* BS/BA​

Job Description:
This job is responsible for originating loans for clients with residential mortgage needs and is the primary lending specialist working full time within the financial center. Key responsibilities include delivering First Mortgage and HELOC lending products in person or by telephone and providing products such as Auto Loans, Credit Cards and Core Banking products. Job expectations include effectively balancing sales performance, operational risk, and client relationship care.

This position may be responsible for the provision of residential mortgage loans, and as such, is subject to SAFE Act registration requirements. Pursuant to the SAFE Act requirements, all employees engaged in residential mortgage loan originations must register with the federal registry system and remain in good standing. Since this position requires SAFE Act registration, employees are required to register and to submit to the required SAFE Act background check. Failure to obtain and/or maintain SAFE Act registration may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Responsibilities:

• Provides specialized and personalized service offering advice and guidance to financial center clients through the full spectrum of borrowing and banking offerings at each stage of client's life plan

• Builds and deepens relationships with new and existing clients by leveraging the full capabilities of the bank

• Analyzes the client's financial needs and applies knowledge of borrowing and banking to recommend financial services that best align with the client's unique priorities

• Presents potential home lending product solutions, submits the mortgage application, assists clients with gathering supporting loan documentation, and keeps clients informed throughout the mortgage loan process through outbound calls, email, and online messaging

• Connects with clients through outreach and pipeline management activities and conducts consistent follow-up routines to meet client needs

• Responds to client requests and makes referrals to appropriate internal partners based on client needs

• Partners with financial center leaders, performance managers, and market leaders to provide specialized guidance and coaching to financial center associates regarding delivery of an exceptional client experience

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of mortgage origination experience. In lieu of this requirement, has previously held the role of:

  • Home Service Specialist II, Lending Client Associate, Lending Client Support Manager, Lending Specialist, Senior Banker, Business Solutions Advisor or Financial Solutions Advisor at Bank of America for 1 year

• Knowledge of credit and home lending requirements

• Actively listens to the client to determine their needs and goals and has a desire to interact with clients proactively.

• Communicates professionally, effectively, and confidently and is comfortable engaging all clients in person and over the phone.

• Is a critical thinker and can analyze financial and credit data to advise clients of product/pricing policies and guidelines and gather any additional required information.

• Has effective customer service skills with ability to manage the full client end-to-end experience and problem resolution.

• Strong written and verbal communications skills.

• Ability to handle ambiguity and adapt to changing circumstances.

• Dedicated, enthusiastic, driven and performance-oriented; possesses a strong work ethic.

• Can be flexible to work weekends and/or extended hours as needed.

• A true team player and collaborator, translating knowledge and experience into strong and productive relationships internally and externally.

• Ability to learn and understand technology.

• Demonstrates a commitment to professional ethics and is thorough and thoughtful in incorporating relevant regulatory due diligence as well as complying with all Federal and State compliance policies.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working in a financial center where goals were met or exceeded.

• Knowledge in analyzing and comprehending complex financial data and providing financial alternatives.

• Knowledge of banking products and services.

• Solid time management skills and the ability to organize, prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Experience in a loan origination role in a retail environment and knowledge of

• Mortgage Products (Conventional, Jumbo and HELOC, Government)

• Structuring, Processing, underwriting and closing procedures

• Federal regulations governing real estate lending

• FHA and HUD guidelines

• Other Lending Products (Credit Card, Vehicle Loans)

• Strong computer skills including MS applications and previous experience utilizing laptop technology.

Skills:

• Client Management

• Client Solutions Advisory

• Customer and Client Focus

• Referral Identification

• Risk Management

• Client Experience Branding

• Credit Documentation Requirements

• Credit and Risk Assessment

• Pipeline Management

• Referral Management

• Attention to Detail

• Collaboration

• Issue Management

• Prospecting

• Relationship Building

High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

Acts as a product representative and is responsible for negotiating operational fund onboarding requirements with fund managers and transfer agents.

Has extensive, in-depth knowledge of product functions and can operate independently in handling transactions. Strong client relationship skills used to control and coordinate all aspects of a transaction, from onboarding to the ongoing client/advisor experience.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with private equity/hedge fund origination team and operations team to onboard new funds to the Alternative Investments Platform
• Respond to inquiries on existing funds from financial advisors and sales team
• Maintain relationships with fund managers/administrators and develop financial advisor communications
• Act as liaison for operational issues between Alternative Investments and fund managers/administrators including review of AML documents

Qualifications:

• 2-5+ years of general financial services experience
• 2 plus years experience in alternative investments preferred

• Strong communication skills, ability to collaborate across business groups
• Ability to multi-task and simultaneously manage daily responsibilities and projects
• Self-starter and creative thinker
• History of process improvement
• Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, preferably in business.

• Analytical Thinking
• Customer and Client Focus
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Risk Management
• Causation Analysis
• Client Management
• Market Analysis
• Product Marketing and Branding
• Relationship Building
• Negotiation
• Networking
• Presentation Skills

Responsibilities:

• Credit analysis: Participate in initial and ongoing due diligence of HFs. Perform quantitative and qualitative credit assessment, setting internal ratings and recommending credit limits
• Initial margin calculation: Determine initial margin (IM) and evaluate transactional risks associated with OTC and exchange traded derivatives, securities financing and structured trades
• Trade approval: Hold delegated approval authority to approve trading floor request (OTC derivatives) or to make recommendations to higher authority levels.
• Relationship management: Build strong working relationship with external HF clients, internal business partners including Sales, Structuring & Trading, Risk counterparts, Legal and Audit Function
• Risk monitoring: Undertake regular exposure analysis including internal stress testing and IM back testing. Monitoring of performance and AUM flow data received from HFs
• Trading documentation: Liaise with Legal and client in negotiating ISDA, CSA, GMRA etc.
• Portfolio reviews: Preparation of portfolio reports and reviews, including analysis of OTC and F&O exposures, any counterparties of concern and other pertinent risk issues.
• Candidate will be responsible for underwriting credit lines to support hedge fund client traded products.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of prior hedge fund (Reg Fund or Financial Institution) risk management and/or hedge fund due diligence experience.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.
• General knowledge of Hedge Funds, their strategies and financial derivatives.
• Candidate will have significant exposure to Global Markets personnel including Trading / Structuring / Sales, as well various support partners.
• Candidate must be comfortable working on transactions in a fast-paced capital markets/trading environment.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, consistently meet deadlines, and demonstrate strong quantitative and analytical skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Masters Degree
• CFA Charter Holder

Skills:

• Attention to Detail
• Client Management
• Decision Making
• Underwriting
• Credit Documentation Requirements
• Critical Thinking
• Portfolio Management
• Problem Solving
• Written Communications
• Financial Analysis
• Negotiation

High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

Job Description:

Job Description:
This job is responsible for performing risk assessment and repayment capacity analysis (i.e., financial, borrower, industry, etc.) and preparing transaction justification for complex transactions with limited supervision. Key responsibilities include documenting credit analysis, independently assessing historic and projected borrower financial information, evaluating adherence to policy and procedure, providing tax equity or loan structure analysis and recommendations, monitoring portfolio performance andassisting with transaction document negotiation, energy/infrastructure project diligence.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluates credit worthiness and provides analysis and decisioning on whether a client should receive a credit facility
• Partners with Credit Officers, Relationship Management, and Risk teammates to assess and deliver credit solutions
• Monitors the client's operating performance and financial condition, proactively identifying issues and opportunities
• Delivers financial modeling, loan structure, industry, economic, and other analyses to team members to support the loan decision-making process
• Ensures adherence to credit policies, guidelines, procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years' of commercial and/or corporate banking credit or equity underwriting related experience.
• Experience in Energy and/or private equity.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting or related field.
• Experience in thermal energy, oil and gas and/or renewables.
• Experience in renewable and/or infrastructure debt
• Formal Credit Training or experience with equity transactions

Skills:

• Attention to Detail
• Financial Analysis
• Underwriting
• Written Communications
• Analytical Thinking
• Credit Documentation Requirements
• Credit and Risk Assessment
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling
• Recording/Organizing Information
• Business Acumen
• Collaboration
• Collateral Management
• Loan Structuring
• Prioritization

High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives

• Facilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills

• Manages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are met

• Manages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization

• Contributes to the technology strategy for their technical domain

• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

• Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders

• Driving the Equities Cash Technology Algo Trading platform strategy, with the goal of expanding the platform to enable new products, smarter algorithms and enable faster time to market for new trading use cases

• Participating in the technical design and development of the Algo Trading platform, a set of highly performant Java components creating improved execution capabilities for internal and external clients

• Demonstrate technical leadership by building technical solutions which deliver business value, which can continue to grow with the needs of the business over the next 3-5 years

• Liaising with the Equity LOB to drive a cohesive strategy supporting multiple workflows across lines of business

• Working with peers across Global Markets to deliver solutions

• Analyzing business requirements, forming an architectural design, overseeing cross team development and testing, and managing production issues

• Collaborating closely with our Site Reliability Engineering group to achieve industry leading reliability and scalability

• Developing roadmaps for continuous platform improvement

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.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Java development on Linux

• Direct exposure to building Electronic Trading applications

• Automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing

• Ability to architect resilient, instrumented, distributed systems achieving world class reliability

• Familiarity with Agile software development and associated best practices

• Enthusiastic, strong-minded person able to work closely with project teams in a multi-faceted role and help instill a responsible and professional culture

• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical partners

• Series 57 or ability to obtain within 120 days.

Desired Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of financial asset classes (particularly Equities) and algorithmic trading of these products

• Working knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments

• Knowledge of C++ is a plus

• Series 24 or ability to obtain within 120 days.

Skills:

• Influence

• Risk Management

• Solution Design

• Stakeholder Management

• Technical Strategy Development

• Analytical Thinking

• Application Development

• Collaboration

• Result Orientation

• Solution Delivery Process

• Agile Practices

• Architecture

• Automation

• Data Management

• DevOps Practices

Minimum Education Requirements - Bachelor Degree in Related Field or Equivalent Professional Experience

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and perform in-depth quantitative analysis on the bank’s risk model results and limitations with determined statistical metric or threshold, using various quantitative tools such as back testing, benchmarking, calibration monitoring, and sensitivity analysis.
• Build processes to support model monitoring routines, perform statistical model testing, analyze model test results, and perform risk assessment for model performance issues.
• Support the daily process around model monitoring process and maintenance, execution and exception analysis liaising with stakeholders to diagnose model performance issues.
• Work with the model development team to understand our model implementation and assess the impact of model limitations on our monitoring results.
• Pull together the overall holistic picture of model performance along with clear conclusions on overall accuracy and remediation areas as required.
• Drive incremental improvement to our model performance assessment toolset across all business areas through automation work, development of utilities, and enhancement of visualization tools, by utilizing programming skills in Python.
• Assist in the production and presentation of reporting packages and analysis.
• Communicate the results of analysis to all model stakeholders including risk management, model development, model risk, senior management governing committees and regulatory bodies.
• Develop model performance analytical toolset by utilizing programming skills in Python.
• Drive improvements to model performance assessment tool set across all business areas through data pipeline aggregation, automation work, development of utilities, and enhancement of visualization tools.
• Monitor complex financial models, and perform quantitative analysis to model results and limitations regularly with determined statistical metric or threshold.
• Perform in-depth statistical analysis on model performance using quantitative tools of benchmarking, calibration monitoring, and sensitivity analysis.
• Remote work may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Master's degree or equivalent in Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Financial Engineering, or related: and
• 2 years of experience in the job offered or a related Quantitative occupation.
• Must include 2 years of experience in each of the following:
• Developing model performance analytical toolset by utilizing programming skills in Python;
• Driving improvements to model performance assessment tool set across all business areas through data pipeline aggregation, automation work, development of utilities, and enhancement of visualization tools;
• Monitoring complex financial models, and performing quantitative analysis to model results and limitations regularly with determined statistical metric or threshold; and,
• Performing in-depth statistical analysis on model performance using quantitative tools of benchmarking, calibration monitoring, and sensitivity analysis.

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