Portfolio Management Senior Associate jobs at Bank Of America in United States, New York

Job Description:

Job Description:
This job is responsible for leading business analysis for a Line of Business (LOB) by producing all financial reporting and disclosures in partnership with senior management, front office, and other business stakeholders. Key responsibilities include applying a knowledge and understanding of product(s), processes, and inherent risks of a product, business or function to analyze and substantiate Profit and Loss (P&L) attributes and balance sheets, establish infrastructure for new products, and approve ledger journal entries.

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Group

Responsibilities:

• Prepares and analyzes balance sheets and Profit and Loss (P&L) reports and validates postings and balances for a product aligned to a Line of Business (LOB) using knowledge of financial products, market risk profiles, and risk mitigation techniques and strategies
• Supports the development of strategic and annual planning and implementation, performing profitability analysis, forecasting, and financial reporting for a product or general ledger account type
• Oversees a set of product(s) or general ledger account(s) and maintains financial responsibility, including accountability for accuracy of financial reporting for Profit and Loss (P&L) activities
• Partners closely with the front office, Operations, and Technology to define business finance processes and implement related technology solutions
• Supports delivering, designing, maintaining, and enhancing Value at Risk Back-Testing (VBT) data and Management Information System (MIS) processes that may impact multiple product control businesses
• Analyzes regulatory matters, such as the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and Recovery and Resolutions Plans (RRP), to assess risk modeling practices within the bank
• Oversight on the official daily P&L explain, P&L substantiation to market events, significant transaction review and its provision for VaR backtesting and other downstream

• Monthly Independent Price verification on both Derivatives and securities positions. Have a basic understanding and knowledge of financial models,
• Calculation of the Valuation adjustment – Validation of appropriate application and use of models for books & records.
• Maintaining/updating valuation adjustment & IPV Desk Level Procedures (DLP)
• Preparation monthly & quarterly revenue and balance sheet commentary to senior managers and regulators
• Regulatory capital disclosures, Price Testing, Sector analysis, Stress Test and Forecasting.
• Volcker/Capital related validation activities such as Volcker balance sheet review, validation of Volcker and Capital attributes for books to ensure compliance with enterprise guidelines
• Partner with Trading Desk, Trade Support, Operations, ECM and other partners on business support including new product review, accounting assessment, issue resolution
• Coordination of the monthly close process and quarterly financial reporting requirements
• Working on initiatives to simplify/automate manual processes

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years hands on experience in Product Control or Finance group
• BS/BA Degree required (Finance, Accounting preferred)
• Global Markets experience
• Global Rates market knowledge – familiarity with a broad range of asset classes
• Derivatives product and valuation knowledge – consisting of technical expertise of models used to reprice complex transactions
• Advanced experience skills with Excel and complex spreadsheets
• Control focused, analytical, team oriented, comfortable with complex products
• Excellent organizational, communication, and relationship management skill
• Proven analytical skills including data reconciliation and interpretation.
• Ability to identify and deliver process improvements.
• Good business partnering skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Fixed income or derivative experience
• Inquisitive, willing to challenge the status quo and strive to improve processes

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Financial Accounting
• Financial Management
• Reporting
• Business Analytics
• Data Quality Management
• Financial Processing
• Price Verification and Valuation
• Scenario Planning and Analysis
• Business Acumen
• Critical Thinking
• Influence
• Prioritization
• Problem Solving

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

Required Qualifications:

• FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE), Series 7 & 66 (or combination of BOTH 63 & 65)

• Displays advanced industry knowledge and understanding of investment products

Desired Qualifications:

• Previous wealth management client associate experience strongly preferred

• 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

• Performs onboarding and maintenance of accounts and reviewing required account documentation.
• Responds to moderately complex client inquiries via numerous channels to support operational efficiency and quality client service
• Reviews and approves required account documentation
• Proactively identifies risk and opportunities for process improvement based on an understanding the work impacts other operational units
• Performs moderate levels of research, follow-up and resolution of more complex routine research requests

• Account Management
• Customer and Client Focus
• Oral Communications
• Research
• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Prioritization
• Recording/Organizing Information
• Result Orientation

• Performs an accuracy, completeness and risk assessment of documentation or client account information, identifies and resolves any discrepancies or gaps, then approves/declines the request for account opening or maintenance according to the established written guidelines and procedures.
• Researches and resolves incomplete submissions by utilizing procedures and established guidelines and engaging support partners when needed.
• Responds to internal business partner inquiries related to requests via phone and email and escalates more challenging issues to leadership as needed.
• Understands the process flow from end to end including the reasons for each step, the process controls, the risks within the process and the upstream/downstream impacts of their work based on an understanding the work impacts other operational units.

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

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

Job Description:

Job Description:

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

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.

• 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:

• 10+ Years of experience with Network Solutions with prior architecture and/or architecture group lead experience

• Work across the business lines, network operations and technology teams to evaluate and create architectural visions for complex technology solutions

• Prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into workload backlog using Kanban, JIRA and Agile methodologies

• Strong knowledge, configuration and trouble-shooting skills of routing protocols to include ISIS and BGP

• Must demonstrate strong experience with IP multicast, Route Reflectors, MPLS, LDP, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6), L2VPN and L3VPN (Unicast/Multicast)

• Must have strong network security knowledge and familiarization with segmentation, virtualization, cryptography, digital certificates, secure key management and encryption protocols (TLS, IPSEC, MACSec)

• Familiarization with data center protocols such as EVPN & VXLAN

• Familiarization with optical transport technologies such as DWDM and 400G/800G-ZR/ZR+.

• Knowledgeable with QoS concepts and queuing strategies, experience with QoS configurations, diagnosing and tuning of QoS and performing bandwidth analysis

• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills in a complex multi-layered network environment

• Excellent customer service skills including reporting, organization, written and oral communication and task prioritization

• Cisco CCNA/CCNP/CCIE routing certifications or equivalent work experience required

Desired Qualifications:

• Architecture experience within a large service provider

• Strong program management skills necessary to lead multi-discipline technology teams

• Strong executive leadership communications skills

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

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

This job is responsible for standard activities supporting the creation, onboarding and maintenance of accounts, according to the established guidelines and procedures. Key responsibilities include providing quality service and effective, efficient operations support for internal business partners and external clients. Job expectations include operating with a standard level of independence, and referring to their team lead or manager for direction and support with more complex issues and escalations.

Responsibilities:

• Performs onboarding and maintenance of accounts and reviewing required account documentation.
• 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 appropriate
• Provides general operational support including handling inbound calls, mail sorting, and mail distribution
• Reviews and approves required account documentation

Skills:

• Account Management
• Customer and Client Focus
• Oral Communications
• Research
• Attention to Detail
• Collaboration
• Written Communications
• Prioritization
• Recording/Organizing Information
• Result Orientation

LOB Job Description:

Wealth Management Operations (WMO) provides end-to-end operational support that drives the client experience for Wealth Management advisory partners and their clients.

Within WMO, the Onboarding & Maintenance Support teams execute manual processes and monitor automated processes to gather and maintain required information that identifies client accounts and features such as legal name(s), address, product type, beneficiaries, etc. to accurately open, modify or close accounts.

Upon the receipt of new account and/or maintenance request from the Merrill Branch Office, the Support Onboarding, Maintenance, and Associated Data – Brokerage team ensures all documentation, regulatory requirements, and required client correspondence have been met for the account to be opened and/or updated. Requests may be returned for additional or incorrect information and a secondary review is completed on higher risk requests. The account management is complete once the request is decisioned.

Required Skills:

Desired Skills:

• Oral Communications
• Written Communications
• Customer and Client Focus
• Attention to Detail
• Results Driven
• Numerical Reasoning"​

Job Description:

The Gaming & Lodging team covers over 30 publicly listed companies including Sports Betting Operators, Hotels, Casinos, and REITs and has been ranked Top 3 in the annual Institutional Investor (II) poll for the 15 years, including number 1 the last 4 years.

Responsibilities

• Perform financial modeling & valuation work
• Update, analyze and compile complicated datasets in databases using Excel
• Derive key insights from data trends and analysis
• Monitor, compile, and summarize/model key industry news and developments incl. via social media
• Seek out new, unusual sources of information to augment our research capabilities/insights
• Write and update company and industry data reports and trends
• Closely follow and understand stock market, industry and company specific activity, and relay to the analyst when he/she is traveling
• Develop industry knowledge and business judgment over time

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experience
• For finance candidates, minimum 9-12+ months experience in accounting, corporate finance, research, banking or consulting for finance oriented candidates
• For engineering/math STEM candidates, strong communication skills and some working knowledge of financial modeling, statements and analysis
• Strong modeling and financial analysis skills (income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement in Excel)
• Strong attention to detail, and understanding of MS Office for formatting charts, tables and exhibits
• Knowledge of statistics and/or data analytics/data science techniques; skills with both AI promoting, and python programming a plus
• General interest in the stock market and/or financial markets
• Must work well in a fast-paced, intense and collaborative team environment