Transaction Management Ops Analyst

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.

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for moderately complex transaction and fulfillment processing, including the movement of assets into and out of accounts. Key responsibilities include reconciliation, settlement, and trade and transfer support, and providing quality service and operations support for internal business partners and external clients, in accordance with established guidelines and procedures. Job expectations include handling in operational processes which may carry medium to high levels of monetary risk and assisting in training less experienced team members.

Responsibilities:

• Performs moderately complex transaction processing and reconciliation with medium to large monetary impact according to the established written guidelines and procedures

• Responds to moderately complex client inquiries via numerous channels to support operational efficiency and quality client service

• Responsible for the analysis and resolution of moderately complex transactions requiring escalations and exceptions

• Proactively identifies risk and opportunities for process improvements based on an understanding of how the work impacts other operational units

LOB Job Description:

Wealth Management Operations (WMO) provides end-to-end operational support that drives the client experience for Wealth Management advisory partners and their clients.  

Within WMO, the Securities Settlement and Custody Operations teams execute manual processes and monitor automated processes to ensure all transactions associated with an account have been processed and settled such as depositing final dividend payments into the correct account, ensuring asset trades are completed without error, and balancing of trade activity.

After a request to buy or sell an asset is received, the Perform Securities Settlement team is notified of the net dollar amount of trades being sent to or from each Fund Family. A Fund Family is an investment company that has an agreement with Merrill Lynch to allow clients to purchase shares of their products, including mutual funds, money markets, alternative investments, etc. The Perform Securities Settlement team enters the information accurately and timely into the system. This team completes a high volume of transactions daily within strict timelines. 

A successful Transaction Management Operations Analyst on this team:

•     Performs a completeness, accuracy and risk assessment of outgoing payments or according to the established guidelines and procedures.

•     Researches and resolves numerical errors received on a report or when an internal or external business partner notifies the team by applying procedures and escalation using a trouble shooting guide and engaging support partners when needed.

•     Responds to internal or external business partner inquiries related to errors via written communication and escalates more challenging issues to leadership as needed.

•     Understands the process flow from end to end including the reasons for each step, the process controls, the risks within the process and the upstream/downstream impacts of their work based on an understanding of how the work impacts other operational units..

Required Skills:

• Attention to Detail

• Prioritization

• Analytical Thinking

• Problem Solving

• Research

• Written Communications

• Numerical Reasoning​

Skills:

• Attention to Detail

• Customer and Client Focus

• Oral Communications

• Prioritization

• Problem Solving

• Account Management

• Analytical Thinking

• Coaching

• Written Communications

• Mentoring

• Research

• Result Orientation

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