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 role is responsible for performing/overseeing trade booking and trade validation, including the analysis and resolution of a wide variety of complex products that may require special handling or exception reporting. The role supports ongoing trade maintenance and reporting as well as supporting the implementation of improvements to the system infrastructure and control environment. The role may also require handling of regulatory queries as well as participation in audit reviews. These individuals provide general team guidance and interact daily with senior trading personnel.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborates across Global Markets teams including Legal and Compliance to resolve issues quickly and minimize risk
• Manages ad hoc requests from trading, sales and clients
• Supports strategic initiatives and proactively identifies improvement opportunities to increase efficiencies and reduce risk
• Introduces new initiatives, products and services, and procedural, systems or hardware solutions to improve efficiency
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
Managerial Responsibilities:
• Diversity & Inclusion: Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully.
• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data-driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Advocate: Delivers clear and concise messages that motivate, convey the "why" and connect contributions to business results.
• Risk Manager: Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks.
• People Manager & Coach: Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback.
• Financial Steward: Manages expenses and demonstrates an owner's mindset.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Recruits, on-boards and develops talent, and supports talent mobility for career growth.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines.
Required Skills:
∙ Financial services experience
∙ Must be client focused with proven track record of excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to present to an audience
∙ Ability to successfully navigate and connect within a matrix work environment
∙ Must be self-motivated and able to work independently
∙ Must be able to operate successfully in a fast paced environment
∙ Must be detail oriented with a heavy focus on monitoring clients adherence to limits
∙ Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
∙ Excellent teamwork skills and ability to work with a wide user group across multiple functions.
∙ Significant control and risk management mindset
• Analytical Thinking
• Change Management
• Collaboration
• Data Analysis
• Decision Making
• Critical Thinking
• Learning Agility
• Multitasking
• Strategic Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Time Management
• Relationship Building
Desired Skills:
∙ Previous experience within a client service team with particular focus on responding to client inquiries
∙ Knowledge of Operational Risk
∙ Working knowledge of building and maintaining Alteryx workflows
∙ Working knowledge of Bloomberg API functionality and ability to navigate Bloomberg screens
∙ Working knowledge of corporate loans market
∙ Credit Derivative and Total Return Swap background
• Conflict Resolution
Line of Business Description
Team: Special Situations Group - Structured Products Trade Control
Functional Job Title: Fixed Income Trade Control Analyst - Special Situations Group - Structured Products
The Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) Operations team performs end to end trade control, confirmation and settlements processes across FICC businesses and provides utility OTC derivative confirmation and settlement services for non FICC businesses. This includes services such as FICC trade control, Foreign Exchange (FX) electronic matching and settlement, Over the Counter (OTC) derivative confirmation and settlement, and commodities operations.
Special Situations Group Structured Trade Control analysts produce detailed daily reporting in support of the Credit Asset Funding desk. The analysts review lending assets, client reports, collateral eligibility and instrument static data to produce detailed client and risk reporting. The analysts work with CAF Trading and Credit Risk partners to ensure that lending products meet all risk criteria. Analysts will become familiar with Leveraged Loan/High Yield Bond market terminology and in preparing internal and external reporting. SSG-Structured analysts work with our technology partners to build out our reporting platform and to produce ad-hoc reporting using loan market data from vendors such as Markit and Bloomberg. Trade control analysts will liaise with the CAF Trading Desk, Technology, Loan and Collateral Operations, Finance, and Settlements daily in support of the business. Analysts utilize reconciliation tools to help them analyze and clear breaks in support of our lending facilities.
Responsibilities
∙ Produce and analyze detailed reporting highlighting the client's adherence to deal covenants
∙ Timely response to client queries regarding the settlement of their trades
∙ System break analysis, and resolution
∙ Work with Trading and Technology partners to prepare and test new deal reporting
∙ Liaising with other internal departments to ensure timely resolution of Client inquiries
∙ Involvement in ad hoc projects for new processes or industry initiatives
∙ Highlight any collateral deficiencies to CAF desk
∙ Liaise with internal partners to ensure proper client reporting and assist with regulatory reporting
- Assist with developing additional control routines and cross training across broader team
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40