Product Specialist Global Mortgage Products jobs at Bank Of America in United States, New York

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

This job is responsible for analyzing and interpreting a client's credit worthiness, evaluating credit risks, and writing credit approval memos for annual renewals and new lending opportunities. Key responsibilities include analyzing qualitative and quantitative data such as client's financials, projections, industry data, covenant compliance, and collateral appraisals to ensure compliance with the bank's risk appetite. Job expectations include completing regular monitoring and underwriting tasks and supporting key internal stakeholders to achieve successful execution of new transactions.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes client's financial performance by comparing it to past performance, projections, and industry standards

• Reviews financial statements, assesses the client's compliance with financial covenants, and renews risk ratings, while recommending changes as warranted

• Assists in the underwriting, credit risk analysis, negotiation, and closing of new transactions or existing transactions, while adhering to all relevant policies and procedures

• Evaluates transaction and relationship risk-adjusted profitability to facilitate the allocation of capital

• Builds projection models for the client (as needed) based on historical performance, industry forecasts, and other due diligence findings

• Perform financial, business industry, and transaction analyses, conduct research, and prepare supporting documentation for transaction credit approval

• Performs intensive qualitative and quantitative due diligence ontransaction structures, stress scenarios, financial models, engineer reports, and terms and conditions

• Participate in the underwriting and documentation of project finance and other credit facilities designed to meet both client and investor needs as well as balance the bank's internal risk/return requirements

• Provide input into key projects/initiatives across the bank

• Review the credit profile of key transaction counterparties (e.g. borrowers, servicers, sponsors and off-takers)

• Engage with various partners including GCIB Enterprise Credit Officers for recourse obligors, Enterprise Credit Risk, and Global Markets Risk

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ years’ experience in corporate or commercial credit at a financial institution

• 1+ years’ experience in project finance/tax equity/structured credit with a focus in energy, power, or infrastructure

Desired Qualifications:

• BA degree in Finance or related major

• Formal credit training program at financial institution

• Strong technical skills including quantitative financial modeling

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking

• Financial Analysis

• Financial Forecasting and Modeling

• Profitability Analysis

• Research Analysis

• Attention to Detail

• Business Acumen

• Credit and Risk Assessment

• Underwriting

• Written Communications

• Verbal Communication

• Academic Aptitude

• Quantative Skills

• Strategic and Creative Thinking

• Collaboration

• Critical Thinking

• Portfolio Analysis

• Prioritization

• Technical Documentation

Job Description:

This job is responsible for providing phone-based services to relationship jobs where the representative is expected to take several inbound service calls daily to solve for financial needs. Key responsibilities include deepening relationships by referring clients to specialized sales teams and serving as a central entry point into a fully licensed financial services career. Job expectations include managing products, trading in self-directed accounts, and maintaining knowledge on chat functionality and a wide variety of products.

• Identifies clients’ needs and find proper solutions to meet those needs by referring sales opportunities to specialist and sales teams
• Receives training through the licensing/study program, ultimately earning SIE, S7 and S66 certifications
• Focuses daily on service to sales with existing Merrill clients
• Provides exceptional client care, growing client relationships, and guiding clients with needs-based solutions that will support their financial goalsYou’re the kind of person that (required skills):
• Is client-focused with a passion for excellence and a positive team attitude.
• Is self-motivated, goal-oriented, andhas the ability tomultitask in a fast moving, performance –based environment.
• Has the ability to identify clients’ needs and find proper solutions to meet those needs by referring sales opportunities to specialist and sales teams.
• Is an effective communicator with an aptitude for sales and relationship management
• Has strong computer skills
• Is prepared to pass licensing exams – Security Industry Essentials (SIE) and Series 7 and Series 66.
• Wants to establish a long-term career in the financial services industry at a fast-growing company that rewards hard work and dedication.
• Is ambitious, disciplined, hardworking, resilient and willing to learn.
• A bachelor’s degree, or 1-2 years of experience in a performance-based environment.
• The Security Industry Essentials (SIE) or other financial services licenses and interest in pursuing the Series 7, and/or the Series 66 licenses.
• Leadership capabilities.Skills Used in this Role:
• Establishing Trust
• Customer Service
• Overcoming Objections
• Consulting
• Risk Management
• Organization
• Critical Thinking
• Conflict Resolution
• Building Rapport
• Active Listening
• Customer Focus
• Analytical Thinking

Additional Skills:

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