Global Markets, FICC Business Controls Officer, Director

Job Description:

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Job Description:

Bank of America offers a broad range of products and services across corporate banking, corporate finance and advisory, capital markets, debt and equity sales and trading.

Supporting our Global Markets teams in Asia, this position sits within the Business Controls Function – which is part of the Markets COO organization and is the key control partner for the line of business heads and the front office.

The Supervisory & Control Function is an in-business group providing a range of advisory and execution services for the Global Markets businesses, including analysis and performance of key supervision and control tasks.

The role is responsible for focusing on business controls across FICC businesses in Asia Pacific and providing support to Hong Kong based Markets supervisors and general sales and trading.

Responsibilities include:

• Supporting the management of the business in the strategic understanding and practical mitigation of their control risks and the evolution of the business’ risk culture
• Understanding and implementing the front office supervision and control arrangements using the firm’s tools (including who is supervising whom, at what activities, how and how well)
• Helping to drive control initiatives across Asia Pacific to ensure the business is effectively managing all its operational risks
• Understanding and helping assess root cause and mitigating controls for operational losses and errors and developing and improving routines to capture control metrics for reporting Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and for developing the Risk & Control Self-Assessments of the business in the region
• Managing audit issue identification and remediation and handling Audit and Regulatory visits as the control face of the business
• Helping to ensure key business continuity processes are in place and effective
• Assisting in internal or regulatory investigations
• Developing enhanced supervision framework where necessary
• Performing deep-dives into producer activities and the risks of products to identify control weaknesses or gaps in processes and activities and remediating weaknesses
• Working with Enterprise Control Functions (Operations, Legal and Compliance, Finance, Risk, IT, HR, Audit) to ensure end-to-end processes for all client and trade activity are controlled
• Working with the Enterprise Control Function to update policies, procedures, and controls to reflect changes in regulatory rules, including Dodd-Frank and EMIR as well as local regulatory reforms as applicable.
• Working across the region with the Business Control and COO teams in each country to ensure that the controls framework is common and effective in each location and responding to local issues
• Being the regional representative in global Business Supervision & Control projects for the LOB and co-ordinating the flow of information to/from and within the region.
• Managing product specific FTE in location and across the region.
• Act as representative on formal mgmt. committees and governance forums

Requirements:

Personal attributes:

• Understanding of the FICC business essential and Bank of America FICC business desirable
• Exceptional communication/relationship skills.
• Comfortable having difficult conversations on challenging issues.
• Management skillset
• Extensive Market product knowledge and experience (10+ years in senior position)
• Strong background in infrastructure or support of the firm’s institutional products and processes, with specific Asia experience preferred.
• Good project/program management skills: ability to run complex, collaborative analytical projects.
• Strong academic background or equivalent
• Good IT skills and the ability to develop ad hoc solutions.
• Exceptional communication/relationship skills.

Competencies:

• Control Mindset: a commitment to ensuring that the business does the right thing
• Creative Thinking: the ability to generate new ideas and possibilities, and to see business opportunities – and risks – with a constructive perspective
• Commercial/Client Orientation: an underlying desire to help the business serve clients and a motivation to ensure that others’ needs are met
• Consulting Skills: an ability to provide added value, including innovative approaches and new or improved solutions
• Flexibility:  the capacity to adapt approach in light of shifting priorities or changing conditions
• Personal Effectiveness: strong communication, decisiveness, energy, drive, courage and character. A thinker – and a doer
• Team Orientation / Teamwork / Collaboration: The willingness to work as a member of a broad team in a matrix organization.
• Excellent communication skills