Cons Prod Strategy Manager II - Business Data Enablement - Client Protection

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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At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
 

Job Summary:

This job is responsible for leading a group of team leaders and employees who develop strategies and drive analytics to understand portfolio risk, increase profitability, and optimize operational performance. Key responsibilities include setting strategic priorities for the team, identifying trends, and leading efforts to maximize risk versus return for the business unit. Job expectations include using data and analytics to solve complex problems, coaching employees, and partnering across technology, product, and risk leadership to drive performance.

The candidate will be responsible for enabling data users & improving their data experience in the Consumer Bank's Client Protection (Fraud & Claims) organization. The role will enable the Fraud & Claims strategy, reporting, modeling, forecasting & operations teams to use data effectively & efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Establishes department-wide strategies and oversees portfolio trend analysis, forecasting, and risk/control performance

• Leads innovation by identifying and championing large scale initiatives that improve the risk management, profitability, and control oversight of risks for the business unit

• Identifies business trends based on economic and portfolio conditions and communicates findings to senior management

• Coaches employees on best practices for structuring complex problems, performing analysis, and communicating the results and implications of their work

• Builds and maintains strategic relationships with peers and counterparts across product, technology, and business control functions

• Identify data use & needs for various processes, business functions, users and use cases - controls, reports, models, strategies, forecasting, operations - across products and channels, over the fraud and claims lifecycles.

• Identify data themes & perform thematic analysis.

• Prioritize user requirements with respect to platforms, data and tools.

• Identify control gaps and data inefficiencies.

• Connect the dots across strategic & tactical efforts and across enterprise, regulatory &  risk drivers.

• Assess current state data processes. Determine gaps, pain points and automation or OpEx opportunities.

• Design user journeys & redesign processes to support data & platform transformations.

• Create data catalogs, data dictionaries & user guides to empower users.

• Enable user adoption of key initiatives, platform and tool implementations, process improvements including user trainings.

• Partner with strategy & planning teams to help create business cases.

• Design a unified target state experience for Client Protection teams.

• Measure and report on improvements in user experience as a result of data & platform improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Consumer Fraud & Claims or areas like Risk, Compliance, other enterprise of FLU functions, Technology

• 5+ years of experience with platforms, data, analysis or reporting

• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal,  documentation, and presentation skills.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Marketing, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Liberal Arts (or similar disciplines)

• Ability to work directly with senior management and executives

• Proficient with Microsoft PPT, Excel, Visio.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree or MBA

• Outstanding quantitative, critical thinking, and analytical s