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 independently performing test work during highly complex audit activities for Global Markets Operations (GMO) and NFRR, Tax and Credit Reporting Operations (NTCO) Lines of Business (LOBs). Key responsibilities include independently designing and executing audit tests, assessing issues for business impact and recommending severity ratings, and establishing business partner relationships. Job expectations include evaluating the control environment, fostering an inclusive work environment, applying product, business, and technical expertise, and supporting team members with development.

Responsibilities:

Understanding business processes, identifying material risks and mitigating controls

Designing and executing audit tests to evaluate the control environment

Assessing test exceptions (including related issues for business impact)

Recommending issue severity ratings under the supervision of senior team members.

Executes audit strategy for the sound application of risk-based auditing by defining audit scope and audit program, and leverages automation and innovative methods in a timely and high- quality manner

Develops skills to use innovative tools to complete audit activities more efficiently (e.g., testing)

Validation of issue remediation by businesses

Establishes business partner relationships, primarily with line management, to develop business knowledge

Exercises sound judgment to effectively influence process and control owners to improve the control environment while developing knowledge of product, business, and technical expertise

Required Qualifications:

3+ years Audit or risk control risk/controls background preferably in financial services.

Strong project management skills, proven organizational, coordination and action tracking skills.

Ability to plan, execute and evaluate audit test plans within a risk-based audit methodology.

Ability to work in a very detailed manner as well as to look broadly across a population and develop connections and themes identifying risk and concerns.

Ability to work as individual contributor remotely, attention to detail, ability to manage projects to completion.

Excellent organizational skills with keen ability to prioritize daily tasks with project work as well as ad hoc requests

Ability to successfully communicate to influence management and lead change in both strategic and tactical initiatives.

Self-starter, desire to learn able to teach others, positive attitude, exhibits flexibility.

Strong team player skills and ability to work in a multicultural environment

Proven verbal and written communication skills

Strong analytical and technical skills

Solution oriented attitude

Independent thinker

Desired Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree and/or Advanced degree

Certified Internal Audit (CIA) certification

Audit or risk control risk/controls background in financial services

Prior Analytical / Automation Skills (SQL, SAS, Python. Alteryx, Advanced Excel)

Certifications (CIA, CISA etc. – CPA)

Strong Risk mindset (look beyond the form to focus on the substance)

Financial services industry acumen.

Ability to process information and change audit focus quickly in line with risk assessments.

Ability to learn complex subject matter, understand regulatory requirements, and build testing programs to ensure compliance and mitigate risks.

Foundational knowledge of key Financial regulatory requirements applicable to APAC, EMEA & US

Experience in performing end-to-end substantive testing. Understanding of statistical sampling testing approach is a plus.

Skills:

Audit testing execution

Internal Audit Review

Issue Management

Risk Management

Audit Planning

Analytical Thinking

Project Management

Automation

Technical Documentation

Attention to Detail

Business Acumen

Relationship Building

Coaching

Critical Thinking

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