Sr. Business Control Specialist – Technical Risk Officer

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!

In this role, the Business Control Specialist will initially 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 a mixture of 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 provide feedback and training as needed and monitor the health of audit issues through their lifecycle, including action plan development and validation through 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 ideal candidate will work closely with a Risk Lead who is responsible for overseeing the portfolio of risk activities for a CIO within GT, and have the potential to step into a Risk Lead role periodically.

Responsibilities:

• Execute risk mitigating strategies to address key technology areas to ensure conformance with laws, rules and regulations
• Partner with multiple technology organizations, divisional leads within Global Technology & Operations and Line of Business, and control partners (i.e. GIS, Technology Compliance & Ops Risk, Audit, etc.)
• Identifies recommendations to leadership to maximize efficient identification, assessment and remediation of risk
• Utilize technical domain expertise in data management, information security, infrastructure or network operations to drive policy adherence and maintain sustainable risk based solutions
• Oversee Issue Management activities end-to-end, including development of action plans for self/audit/compliance-identified issues

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in technology with some applied within financial services or risk
• 3+ years of professional domain expertise in a technical discipline, such as data management, artificial intelligence and/or information security
• Communicates complex technical subject matter into clear, concise language suited for various audiences ranging from executives to junior analysts
• Demonstrated increasing levels of accountability and ownership
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a change ambassador by advocating and embracing change across diverse stakeholders groups
• Strong collaboration and partnering skills with ability to positively influence and motivate teams
• Comfortable with ambiguous situations capable of analyzing, simplifying and collaborating to solve complex problems
• Strategic thinker, self-starter, organized, versatile, and capable of performing work with minimal management oversight

Skills:

• Controls Management
• Issue Management
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Risk Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Written Communications
• Decision Making
• Innovative Thinking
• Prioritization
• Recording/Organizing Information
• Research

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40