Job Description:

Job Title: Global Financial Crimes Specialist – Quality Control

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Location: Frankfurt

Company Overview:

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 organisation.

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!

Role Description:

This job is responsible for supporting the execution of substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include assisting Global Financial Crimes executives and managers with activities that support the identification, escalation and timely mitigation of compliance and operational risks in alignment with the Compliance and Operational Risk Management (CORM) Program, the Financial Crimes and Global Compliance - Enterprise Policies and the Enterprise Fraud Risk Management Standards.

Responsibilities:

Activities this role performs include, but are not limited to:

• Perform quality control (QC) tests to ensure AML and Fraud investigations are completed in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal procedures.
• Review and scoring of simple to complex AML and fraud cases for GFC Non-US Investigations; evaluation of any errors/discrepancies and document findings in a timely matter.
• Supports the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and reviews relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions-owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed
• Assists in the production of independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders
• Assists in the monitoring of changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed
• Contributes to risk coverage plans, executes independent risk monitoring, testing, and risk assessments
• Supports with escalating financial crimes-related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees
• Identifying and tracking any required remediation actions and ensuring timely documentation.
• Maintain and update QC procedures to align with regulatory and internal standards.
• Respond to audit-related queries and provide necessary documentation.
• Prepare and deliver monthly QC reports in a timely manner with accurate findings and recommendations.
• Provide training and guidance to relevant stakeholders, including QC Associates, Investigators, QA teams, and MLROs, as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated business and functional experience in AML or fraud
• Degree required: Bachelor’s or equivalent experience
• Confident working within global policies, procedures and risk management guidelines
• Strong organisational skills, time management, and attention to detail

Desired Qualifications:

• AML experience reviewing cases in broker dealer, global financial crimes and/or terrorist financing
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Powerpoint, Word and Access

Job Description:

Job Title: Global Financial Crimes Specialist – Quality Control

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

Location: Frankfurt

Company Overview:

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 organisation.

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!

Role Description:

This job is responsible for supporting the execution of substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include assisting Global Financial Crimes executives and managers with activities that support the identification, escalation and timely mitigation of compliance and operational risks in alignment with the Compliance and Operational Risk Management (CORM) Program, the Financial Crimes and Global Compliance - Enterprise Policies and the Enterprise Fraud Risk Management Standards.

Responsibilities:

Activities this role performs include, but are not limited to:

• Perform quality control (QC) tests to ensure AML and Fraud investigations are completed in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal procedures.
• Review and scoring of simple to complex AML and fraud cases for GFC Non-US Investigations; evaluation of any errors/discrepancies and document findings in a timely matter.
• Supports the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and reviews relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions-owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed
• Assists in the production of independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders
• Assists in the monitoring of changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed
• Contributes to risk coverage plans, executes independent risk monitoring, testing, and risk assessments
• Supports with escalating financial crimes-related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees
• Identifying and tracking any required remediation actions and ensuring timely documentation.
• Maintain and update QC procedures to align with regulatory and internal standards.
• Respond to audit-related queries and provide necessary documentation.
• Prepare and deliver monthly QC reports in a timely manner with accurate findings and recommendations.
• Provide training and guidance to relevant stakeholders, including QC Associates, Investigators, QA teams, and MLROs, as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated business and functional experience in AML or fraud
• Degree required: Bachelor’s or equivalent experience
• Confident working within global policies, procedures and risk management guidelines
• Strong organisational skills, time management, and attention to detail

Desired Qualifications:

• AML experience reviewing cases in broker dealer, global financial crimes and/or terrorist financing
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Powerpoint, Word and Access