Senior Audit Manager - Climate and Environmental Risk

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 auditing Lines of Business (LOBs) ranging in scale and scope. Key responsibilities include developing audit plans, assessing issues for impact, assigning severity ratings, producing audit reports, and managing business partner relationships. Job expectations may include evaluating the control environment, fostering an inclusive work environment, and managing development of personnel.

Responsibilities:

• Audits Lines of Business (LOBs) ranging in scale and scope and produces audit reports in a timely manner that summarize results of an audit to management
• Develops an audit plan, assesses risks, and provides appropriate coverage for current and/or emerging risks
• Leverages a risk mindset to proactively identify risks, analyze themes, and continually evaluate areas of priority against the company’s risk profile and control environment
• Supports Corporate Audit's mission, goals, and strategies, and drives operational effectiveness while demonstrating a strategic mindset and leading and supporting change
• Leads the design and promotes the use of innovative tools and technological elements to drive continuous coverage of company risks

• Maintains business partner relationships for areas assigned and challenges business management to adopt appropriate policies, procedures, and effective controls designed to mitigate risks

Additional responsibilities:

• Manages team performance by training, mentoring, defining development plans for team
• Responsible for audit coverage of areas and activities covering climate and environmental risks applicable across the enterprises
• Develops audit strategy for the sound application of risk-based auditing by defining audit  scope and audit programs and leverages automation and innovative methods in a timely and   high-quality manner
• Exercises sound knowledge of product, business, and technical expertise to effectively challenge management to improve the control environment.
• Assesses impacts to business processes, controls, and strategies to provide recommendations on severity ratings.
• Produces draft audit reports and shares audit results with business leaders.
• Supports the development of peers and teams through on-the-job-training and fosters an inclusive work environment.
• Establishes business partner relationships, primarily with line management, to develop business knowledge.
• Uses innovative tools to complete audit activities more efficiently (e.g., testing)
• Ensures Audit testing is robust and adheres to BAC Audit methodology and IIA standards.
• Manage, monitor, and perform Audit Issue validation while balancing Audit assignments
• Stays abreast of regulatory developments, emerging risks, and report/instruction changes; contributes to calibration of the plan

Required Qualifications:

• Greater than 10 years’ experience in a related role
• BA/BS or equivalent experience. CPA, CIA, CISA or similar
• Specific subject matter expertise in audit and the financial services industry.
• Strong critical thinking, communication, and project management skills with attention to detail
• Ability to learn complex subject matter, understand regulatory requirements, and build testing programs to ensure compliance and mitigate risks.
• Proven track record of executing multiple projects concurrently and delivering high quality work to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to lead, coach, and mentor junior team members and influence their careers.
• Ability to build a strong rapport with line of business management and provide impact without impairing independence.
• Strong interpersonal skills and effective communicator, both orally and in writing

Desired Qualifications:

• Financial Statement Auditing and Consulting experience
• Experience in evaluating workflows/ systems/ data mining
• Experience with climate and environment risk areas

Skills:

• Audit Planning
• Coaching
• Internal Audit Review
• Issue Management
• Risk Management
• Business Acumen
• Critical Thinking
• Project Management
• Relationship Building
• Written Communications
• Regulatory Relations
• Talent Development
• Technical Documentation
• Workforce Diversity Management

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