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Job Description:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Job Description:
This job is responsible for conducting quantitative analytics and modeling projects for specific business units or risk types. Key responsibilities include developing new models, analytic processes, or systems approaches, creating technical documentation for related activities, and working with Technology staff in the design of systems to run models developed. Job expectations include having a broad knowledge of financial markets and products.
Responsibilities:
Skills:
Minimum Education Requirement: Master’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience.
This position is part of the Wholesale Loss Forecasting (WLF) Administration and Analytics team and will more specificially support the Global Scenario Generation forecast admin remit. This FA team, a part of Scenario and Enterprise Risk Analytics, the faceoff with both our internal and external stakeholders. This team helps bridge the gap between a technical, quantitative model framework and non-technical business stakeholders looking to make sense of these model results. The team administers the bank’s commercial loss forecasts, that ultimately help support the bank’s Allowance and stress testing needs both domestically and internationally. The Role will interact with a wide variety of stakeholders including enterprise credit and credit risk, model developers, model risk management, allowance, finance, and capital.
Forecast Administration and Analytics employees possess a broad set of skills necessary to evaluate financial risk, produce regulatory reporting and evaluate portfolio risk for emerging, systemic, concentration and idiosyncratic risks.
They collaborate with business partners to identify risk mitigation strategies. They possess high levels of skill in portfolio analysis, financial analysis and data visualization. The team welcomes a diversity of thoughts and experiences grounded in a core set of competencies with the ability to connect data points from across the enterprise.
As a Quantitative Finance Analyst within SERA, the main responsibilities will involve:
• Analyzing and communicating model results to model stakeholders, including enterprise credit and credit risk, allowance, model development, model risk, senior management, and regulators
• Applying quantitative methods and business/economic expertise to develop model overlays that meet risk management, line of business, and regulatory requirements
• Monitoring current and emerging risks to wholesale clients (e.g. rising interest rates, persistent inflation, etc.) and considering impact on the wholesale portfolio and forecasts
• Demonstrated ability to clearly articulate to senior stakeholders model results and overlays at a level of detail commensurate with the given audience
Required Education, Skills, and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field. Alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in a technical field (i.e: engineering, computer science, mathematics, statistics, etc.) and a demonstrated interest in finance and markets.
• Masters in one of the aforementioned subjects a plus.
• Progress toward (or completion of) CFA a plus.
• Ability to identify key industry drivers, excellent quantitative skills and judgment in the field of research. Prior experience in a research-orientated role (e.g. Equity, Credit) is a plus.
• The candidate must be able to thrive in a fast-paced and intense environment, be intellectually curious about drivers of the economy, industry & company performance and consumer behavior
• Strong economic and financial skills and a keen interest in markets, some experience in investment strategy is a plus
• Strong writing and spreadsheet skills
• Must be an expert in MS Excel, experience working with statistical packages and/or programming experience preferred
• Must have excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Must have strong attention to detail, ability to multi-task
• Must work well in a collaborative team environment and be exceptionally driven
Desired Skills and Experience
• Some knowledge of Tableau, SQL, Python.
• Good understanding of current US regulatory environment, including but not limited to CECL and CCAR
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)Hours Per Week:
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