Enterprise Financial Risk Liquidity Risk Sr. Specialist

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.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

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

Enterprise Financial Risk (EFR) Overview

Enterprise Financial Risk (EFR) seeks to deliver effective independent risk management of the activities and processes associated with managing the Company’s capital, liquidity and interest rate risks, including price risk in the CFO managed securities portfolio.  As the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) function covering the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Group, we also bring together a holistic point of view across all seven risk types for the Company’s CFO.

The team helps Bank of America grow responsibly through developing our teammates, promoting a diverse and inclusive culture, and approaching our work with intellectual curiosity. EFR delivers its mission through a steadfast commitment to its values: cultivating diversity of thought and valuing different perspectives and experiences; promoting learning, fostering relationships and creativity; developing talent, advancing careers, and creating leaders within Global Risk Management and across the company.  Our goal is to ensure that a healthy and sustainable liquidity, capital, and interest rate risk (IRR) profile is maintained through baseline economic scenarios, as well as during times of market and idiosyncratic stress.

EFR Division:  Liquidity Risk Management

Enterprise Liquidity Risk Management is a department within Enterprise Financial Risk (EFR). This group is responsible for providing an independent assessment of Bank of America’s Liquidity risk, as described within BAC’s Risk Framework. The department’s aim is to support Bank of America’s purpose in making financial lives better through responsible growth. This is accomplished by providing an independent perspective on the effective utilization of Bank of America’s Liquidity resources and ensuring we understand all of the risks that could impact our Liquidity resources. The goal of the department is that a healthy and sustainable Liquidity profile is maintained through a business as usual environment and also during times of stress to support our ability to meet our financial obligations. 

Role Summary:  Liquidity Risk Management Sr. Specialist

Operating within BAC’s Risk Framework, understand and drive all components of the end-to-end Liquidity Risk management process/program for the Enterprise. As a Risk horizontal team, it is our role to ensure the Enterprise is provided and adheres to our Liquidity Risk policy and any related standards and guidance. Key components of the Liquidity Risk Management program include appropriate risk identification across the 8 lines of business and legal entities, establishment of effective stress testing processes across a range of scenarios, establishment of risk monitoring processes across the 8 lines of business and legal entities; including establishment of Board and Management Level Risk Appetite Limits for our Enterprise and material entities.

Key Responsibilities

• Active Liquidity Risk management through engagement with Corporate Treasury Liquidity Management, LOB Risk and the FLUs

• Identification of Risks, including severity and likelihood as well as review & challenge the Line of Business

• Define the Liquidity Risk Limits and Early Warning Indicators (EWI); up-front engagement of Liquidity Risk & LOB team and approval via senior executives and broker-dealer Board of Directors, as appropriate. Monitor and notify or escalate limit breaches and EWIs triggered, as required 

• Stress testing assumptions and Models

• Coordination and independent challenge of liquidity assumptions / interpretations including Internal Stress Assumptions, Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR)

• Overview of product and legal entity Liquidity Stress Tests and Balance Sheets by Currency 

• Coordination and independent challenge, in partnership with our Recovery and Resolution Planning (RRP) colleagues, of liquidity risk assumptions and plan documentation 

• Participation in Liquidity Stress Modelling process including preparatio