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!

This job is responsible for leading and executing on internal control discipline and operational excellence within a Line of Business (LOB) or Enterprise Control Function (ECF). Key responsibilities include executing LOB or ECF processes and tools to drive adherence to enterprise-wide standards. Job expectations include supporting the implementation of quality assurance and quality control processes within the LOB or ECF through ongoing monitoring and testing of controls, identifying issues and control improvements for remediation, and building out actions plans and milestones.

Global Technology Risk function is seeking a self-starter who is motivated, passionate, thrives in a fast-paced culture, balances priorities, drives delivery, flawless execution, and enjoys team successes. This role provides opportunity to work across multiple lines of business in Global Technology and exposure with executive level leadership.

In this role, candidates will lead the management of risk for up to two Technology Executives by partnering with the leadership and their teams to apply subject matter expertise to support a culture of risk identification, escalation and timely mitigation of compliance and operational risks. Candidates will be responsible to solve problems analytically by applying both risk and technology expertise to perform impact assessments, identify root causes in support of the technology control activities, and drive risk reduction in the respective technology teams. They will be responsible to monitor the health of audit issues through their lifecycle, including action plan development and validation through approval reviews. The role requires strong communication and leadership skills, candidates are required to drive collaboration with teammates across organizations (Technology, Operations, Audit, GIS etc.) and with the management team to identify opportunities to improve control and reduce risk. The role is aligned to critical Risk and Regulatory work with senior internal and external constituents and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the assessment of the design and effectiveness of the risk and control environment to support Client Operational Services and ensure adherence to enterprise-wide standards
• Performs monitoring and testing of controls, identifying issues and control improvements for remediation
• Leads the implementation of optimized controls and enhanced Quality Assurance (QA) practices to support business continuity efforts
• Manages the performance and productivity of team members that conduct quality inspection reviews
• Ensures timely execution of QA activities including control execution, case management, and results reporting
• Manages and reviews all operations front line unit responses for regulatory exams, internal audits, and other monitoring and inspection reviews
• Ensures accuracy of data and that relevant information is captured for inspection metrics to support governance for dashboard reporting

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of internal control, regulatory, audit, risk or compliance experience within a financial services or technology organization
• Understanding of the components and application of internal control frameworks including the requirements under SOX, COBIT and COSO
• Strong relationship management skills to navigate the complexities of aligning stakeholders, building consensus, and resolving conflicts in a large, distributed organization; proven ability to influence peers/stakeholders
• Strong program/project management
• Proven ability to manage multiple and often competing priorities in a global and fast paced environment
• Decompose complex issues and drive timely decisions, knowing when to engage others for additional input, and when to act independently
• Ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner, influencing the opinions and actions of key stakeholders and gaining their trust
• Detail oriented with an ability to review documentation for accuracy and report on the status of risk reviews
• Leads coordination of materials across multiple stakeholders and proactively escalates
• Cyber security or information security domain knowledge
• Wide knowledge of computing platforms and solutions
• Ability to “connect the dots” for others across multiple data points, make connections upstream/downstream that may not be easily noticeable
• A problem solver who can manage through ambiguity and controversial situations successfully
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's and/or Master’s degree
• CISSP, CRISC, CISA, CISM certification or similar
• Prior operational risk or compliance experience in the technology arena
• Detailed, bank-specific risk management and governance experience
• Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners

Skills:

• Controls Management
• Oral Communications
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategy Planning and Development
• Continuous Improvement
• Drives Engagement
• Influence
• Strategic Thinking
• Talent Development
• Data and Trend Analysis
• Decision Making
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Problem Solving
• Quality Assurance

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - CA - Simi Valley - 450 AMERICAN ST (CA6921)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$120,000.00 - $175,700.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.