Senior Data 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. 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:
 

Global Risk Analytics (GRA) and Enterprise Independent Testing (EIT) are sub-lines of business within Global Risk Management (GRM). Collectively, they are responsible for developing a consistent and coherent set of models, analytical tools, and tests for effective risk and capital measurement, management and reporting across Bank of America. GRA and EIT partner with the Lines of Business and Enterprise functions to ensure the capabilities it builds address both internal and regulatory requirements, and are responsive to the changing nature of portfolios, economic conditions, and emerging risks. In executing its activities, GRA and EIT drive innovation, process improvement and automation.
EIT Analytics is responsible for partnering with stakeholders to identify data and reporting needs, leverage insight and capabilities to simplify data structure and reporting, delivering an improved experience while increasing focus on risk management.

Role Overview:
 

The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for providing data and analysis needed to inform key decisions and action needed to address risk across the Bank. This role will require close partnership with key stakeholders to obtain a deep understanding of their processes, technology infrastructure, including underlying data and controls to ensure accuracy and validity of information.
As a Senior Data Analyst in EIT, main responsibilities will include:

• Turning data into insights to tell a story; present large amounts of data in a visually insightful way that can be easily digested by an executive audience.

• Compiling and organizing data regarding issues or business processes needing improvement

• Transforming large datasets to identify patterns and summarize insights to identify strengths and weaknesses.

• Designing & developing analytics models, algorithms and analysis

• Collaboration with key stakeholders and SLT to understand business needs.

• Delivery of data needs at various levels of end users.

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degrees or above in fields including but not limited to: Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Process and Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Data Science, Accounting, Business Administration

• 5+ years of relevant work experience

Desired Skills:

• Intellectual Curiosity

• Applies critical thinking and connects the dots on how processes relate to one another.

• Demonstrates understanding of and passion for the “why”.

• Looks around the corner, explores uncharted territories with an “outside-in” perspective.

• Life-long learner who not only assertively educates self but encourages others to learn and grow.

• Feels ownership and accountability for delivering high quality work, able to prioritize effectively, adapt, and meet strict deadlines.

• Ability to recommend and implement process control improvements.

• Executive Interaction & Communication

• Strong written, verbal, presentation creation and delivery skills.

• Communications are timely, concise, easy to follow and tailored to topic, audience, and competing priorities.

• Exercises excellent judgm