Project Manager

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 an 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.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

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

Job Description:
This job is responsible for managing cross-functional and/or inter-departmental projects for Line of Business products, processes, functions, and employee readiness. Key responsibilities of the job include partnering with the business to develop a plan to sustain change, evaluating current methods, and developing strategies to implement changes and project improvements. Job expectations include overseeing projects, using appropriate tools to drive project completion, and serving as a secondary point of contact to department managers for critical change initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees the execution of defined project tasks through tracking of deliverables and their statuses, developing project plans, and measuring progress against ongoing key performance indicators

• Leads project and/or remediation requirement documentation efforts based on identified gaps and controls needed for sustained performance

• Plans and organizes projects using appropriate tools and techniques, including Technology platforms used by client facing employees, change management tools, and risk and issue management tools to ensure efficient and effective project completion

• Navigates across various Lines of Business and partner organizations, including Technology and Risk, leading them to negotiate decision making for efficient and effective resolution

• Supports the adoption and sustainment of change initiatives and helps assess adoption risks

•  Develops, maintains, and reports on an overall integrated delivery plan, raising any risks, developing a mitigation plan, and escalating issues appropriately to respective stakeholders

Global Risk Analytics (GRA) is a sub-line of business within Global Risk Management (GRM). The GRA team provides quantitative capabilities supporting global risk management and capital management and develops a consistent set of risk and capital models and analytical tools that support decision making across the bank. As part of GRA - Alternative Modelling Group (AMG) builds alternative models, using innovative methods, which challenge and benchmark risk and capital champion models across the enterprise; and has a vision to challenge what is possible across Risk and Capital Modelling. The role will involve enabling the team's core function by  driving the delivery of business critical projects, such as onboarding models onto the target state IT infrastructure. In addition the role will facilitate the good functioning of the team through strong governance, resource management and business administration.

Overview of the Role:

The successful candidate will be able to successfully manage multiple high profile and technical projects to tight deadlines for senior stakeholders; as well as support the Business Management function across a number of areas. 

• Responsible for running multiple technical projects concurrently, particularly the implementation of models onto the organization's target-state infrastructure, ensuring adherence to team business practices as well as Enterprise project governance standards

• Additionally responsible for business management processes as agreed with Business Management Lead

• Support delivery through strong project management practices and provide project management expertise to modelers

• Provide Project Management Office (PMO) capabilities across a number of teams within AMG.  This will include QA/QC on JIRA tasks; governance; Model Development Lifecycle tracking, reporting and routines management

• Provide business support to AMG team leads as necessary – this may include capacity planning, reports and returns, hiring activities, managing