Audit Supervisor

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 independently performing test work during highly complex audit activities for Lines of Business (LOBs). Key responsibilities include independently designing and executing audit tests, assessing issues for business impact and recommending severity ratings, and establishing business partner relationships. Job expectations include evaluating the control environment, fostering an inclusive work environment, applying product, business, and technical expertise, and supporting team members with development.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for testing data controls and verification of completeness and accuracy of transaction-level data across the Company’s CFO coverage areas. Project areas include testing processes and controls within Accounting, Finance, SOX, Regulatory Reporting, ESG, Capital Management, Basel, Treasury, Liquidity, and RRP.  Additional activities would include data extraction from multiple sources, performing data analytics, building dashboards. Opportunity to provide automated solutions utilizing sophisticated tools (SQL, Alteryx, Tableau, SAS) and technologies (Python, AI / Data science). Typically works on projects of moderate to high complexity that would involve learning (regulatory regime, business model, processes) on each new assignment. 

Candidates will work directly with Audit leadership from U.S. with specialization and subject matter expertise in the areas assigned. Candidates will receive training and additional instruction as needed and will be provided with testing objectives and guidelines.  Team members should have the ability to perform high quality, risk-focused fieldwork, in accordance with Corporate Audit methodologies and standards to identify meaningful issues, risks and other exposures in the area of the Company being audited. Will create and maintain accurate and clear work documents and expected to complete tasks efficiently (on time and accurately). Also, will engage in relevant training regarding audit, businesses,

financial controls, regulations, or a particular specialty. Candidates are expected to work independently but maintain ongoing communication and provide

periodic updates to Audit leadership.

Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in financial services or audit with experience in data extraction or data wrangling

• BA/BS or equivalent in accounting or finance

• Skilled in use of data extraction (SQL, R, Python) and data visualization / automation tools (Alteryx, Tableau)

• Strong project management skills, attention to detail, ability to supervise and manage projects to completion

• Excellent organizational skills with keen ability to prioritize daily tasks with project work as well as ad hoc requests

• Ability to learn complex subject matter, understand regulatory requirements, and build testing programs to ensure compliance and mitigate risks

• Proven verbal and written communication skills

• Strong analytical and technical skills

• Implements risk-based audit strategy

• Ability to work as individual contributor remotely and conduct testing independently but maintain ongoing interaction with management and manage time zone differences efficiently

• Desire to lead, coach, and mentor junior team members

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required [Computer Science, Information Systems (IS), Accounting, Finance or similar]

• Minimum 2-3 years of Audit, Risk, Data or other relevant experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior data experience (i.e., analytics; data mining; automation)

• Audit or risk control risk/controls background in financial services

• Prior Analytical / Automation Skills (SQL, SAS, Python. Alteryx, Advanced Excel)

• Advanced degree or certifications (CIA, CISA etc. – CPA Preferred)

Shift:

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