Operations Analyst - Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for analyzing the day-to-day issues, researching, and providing resolution for various issues identified within a business unit. Key responsibilities include supporting defined procedures, routine analytics, and creating reports and completing exception processing.

Line of Business Job Description:

Investigate Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) alerts for both domestic and international consumer, commercial and wholesale bank businesses or services functions. Responsibilities may include: basic level reporting, reviewing and processing OFAC transactions to meet compliance requirements, and performing other support operations functions as required. Ensures quality service and effective and efficient operations support for the assigned area's internal business partners and/or external customers/clients. Intermediate level position performs routine and various item processing functions under moderate supervision within a process that has built-in checks and balances.

About Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence: The Center of Excellence for economic sanctions monitoring is part of Global Payment Operations (GPO). GPO is the central hub for Bank of America in playing a monumental and mission critical role in establishing, servicing, supporting and monitoring two of the most widely used electronic payment processing vehicles - Wire and ACH - in the financial services arena worldwide. GPO is also accountable for the SSCoE (Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence) that reviews all of Bank of America's customers and transactions to ensure compliance with Bank of America's Economic Sanctions Program. SSCoE serves BAML's eight lines of business, delivering global, regional and local capabilities through secure, fast and reliable technology, and people with the knowledge and experience to deliver timely and accurate review of all sanctions alerts across all products of Bank of America. Team also has the responsibility to provide support to client facing teams and clients where needed to educate on compliance program, drive better quality of data defining the customer and their day-to-day banking transactions

Responsibilities:

• Assists with coordination of implementation for products, services, and operational solutions
• Supports the design, documentation, implementation, and monitoring of new products and services
• Provides guidance regarding procedural, technical, and operational changes
• Expands business products knowledge within operations environment
• Builds network by developing relationships with partners and teammates
• Inspects data to identify issues and trends
• Collects and interprets data to validate operational processes

Required Qualifications:

• Analytical and detail oriented
• Good oral and written communications skills
• PC proficiency and excellent keyboarding/typing skills
• Ability to work independently, as well as, within a team
• Overtime as required
• Available Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday or Sunday - Thursday

Desired Qualifications:

• Previous Economic Sanctions, AML, Wire Transaction and/or previous Compliance experience highly desired.
• Strives to bring new thoughts and ideas to teams in order to drive innovation and unique solutions.
• Excels in working among diverse viewpoints to determine the best path forward.
• Experience in connecting with a diverse set of clients to understand future business needs - is a continuous learner
• Commitment to challenging the status quo and promoting positive change.
• Participate in and drive collaborative efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve an evolving client base.
• Believes in value of diversity so we can reflect, connect and meet the diverse needs of our clients and employees around the world.
• College degree or equivalent work experience desired

Skills:

• Attention to Detail
• Customer and Client Focus
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Process Performance Management
• Research
• Adaptability
• Business Analytics
• Critical Thinking
• Reporting
• Written Communications
• Data Management
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
• Process Design
• Process Effectiveness
• Strategic Thinking

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40