Operations Consultant - Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence

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.  We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing, and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Job Description:  This job is responsible for the day-to-day resolution of complex problems and the research and execution of complex transactions for a single site/business unit or smaller business unit(s). Key responsibilities include strategically advising upon the design, development, and implementation of products, systems, and services using discretion within the project management methodologies.

Line of Business Specific Description:  About Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence: The Center of Excellence for economic sanctions monitoring is part of Global Payment Operations (GPO). GPO is the central hub for Bank of America in playing a monumental and mission critical role in establishing, servicing, supporting and monitoring two of the most widely used electronic payment processing vehicles – Wire and ACH – in the financial services arena worldwide.  GPO is also accountable for the SSCoE (Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence) that reviews all of Bank of America’s customers and transactions to ensure compliance with Bank of America’s Economic Sanctions Program. SSCoE serves BAML’s eight lines of business, delivering global, regional and local capabilities through secure, fast and reliable technology, and people with the knowledge and experience to deliver timely and accurate review of all sanctions alerts across all products of Bank of America. Team also has the responsibility to provide support to client facing teams and clients where needed to educate on compliance program, drive better quality of data defining the customer and their day-to-day banking transactions.

Responsibilities include:

• Perform sanctions reviews on a variety of different Transactions and/or Relationships
• Ensure compliance with regulators such as OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control)
• Monitor queue volumes and priorities
• Communicate with different Lines of Business to retrieve information or advise of adverse decisions

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ year experience in Operations or Compliance; Economic Sanctions experience highly desired
• Experience & Knowledge of economic sanctions program requirements and disposition of sanctions alerts or extensive background with WTX and/or ACH experience
• Experience in client due diligence and KYC
• Highly organized individual - Demonstrates a bias for action and a commitment to achieving sustainable results. Makes timely and fact based decisions
• Analytical and detail oriented.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and navigate change
• Ability to work independently, as well as, within a team.
• Strong risk framework and approach.
• Ability to prioritize, use own initiative and be flexible
• Good oral and written communications skills.
• PC proficiency and excellent Keyboarding/Typing skills.
• Overtime as required

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Global Banking & Markets business process
• Knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook
• Team player attitude, enthusiasm and commitment
• Monitor work flow and team progress, provide feedback to manager/team 
• Monitor escalations received from Lines of business and response in timely manner
• Coordinate with other sites/regions to ensure daily SSCOE goals are met
• Provide training to new hires and up skill training to existing associates
• Ensure existing training is updated appropriate to adjust for changes in environment over time

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Skills:

• Customer and Client Focus
• Problem Solving
• Risk Management
• Adaptability
• Attention to Detail
• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• Issue Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Decision Making
• Oral Communications
• Presentation Skills

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