Senior Finance Analyst - Capital Management 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:

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

Desired Qualifications:

• Series 7 & 66 (or both the Series 63 & 65 in lieu of the 66) preferred

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

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

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:

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:

• Is an enthusiastic, highly motivated self-starter with a strong work ethic and intense focus on results, acting in the best interest of the client
• Has the ability to learn and adapt to new information and technology platforms

Desired Qualifications:

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

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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