Senior Financial Analyst, Capital Management

About the position

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! The Capital Management Finance Analyst is part of the Enterprise Capital Management (ECM) team and assists in the timely and accurate preparation of the company’s regulatory capital results; research causes of unanticipated capital changes; end-to-end review, analysis, and implementation of new capital regulations; and ad-hoc analytical reporting to senior management and regulatory agencies. Success requires understanding of regulatory capital and accounting rules and the ability to formulate means by which answers may be derived from large sets of data. ECM is a global team of more than 100 professionals responsible for the efficient and prudent management of the Corporation's as well as its subsidiaries' capital across the enterprise globally. ECM implements the Board’s capital management strategy including issuance, redemption or repurchase of common stock and other capital instruments. ECM works closely with lines of business and guides them to efficiently and proactively manage the enterprise's capital including design and implementation of capital allocation methodologies. ECM also recommends capital related financial resource limits to senior management. In addition, ECM produces and monitors regulatory capital metrics including capital adequacy ratios, leverage exposure and risk-weighted assets and oversees the end-to-end capital measurement process across the enterprise. Partnering with other control functions, ECM manages external disclosures related to capital management including 10Q, 10K, Pillar 3 disclosures and other regulatory filings‎. ECM interfaces with banking regulators globally on all capital related matters.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for more complex finance activities around capital calculation, reporting and/or analysis to support the Bank's Capital Initiatives.
• Analyzes business balance sheet and risk-weighted assets identifying optimization opportunities.
• Ensures process, documentation, and procedures align with rule conformance of Basel capital requirements.
• Consolidates and delivers monthly Basel III capital results, explaining key drivers of variances.
• Provides transactional support for live transactions.
• Assists and educates business partners about capital, regulatory requirements, providing recommendations on how to operate in a capital efficient manner.
• Facilitates capital forecasting for strategic planning and capital planning purposes, including stress testing.
• Monitors portfolios to anticipate capital needs and financial resource use.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience with quantitative methods applied to finance and banking.
• Thorough understanding of Basel III regulations.
• Project management and issue resolution.
• SQL query writing.
• Experienced in analyzing big datasets.
• Relationship Building (influencing).
• Policy/procedure writing.
• Oral and written presentations.
• Attention to detail.
• Excel (VBA), PowerPoint.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced degree in finance, engineering, computer science, math, or statistics.
• Proficient in SQL and working with large databases, experience with data mining.
• Report analysis, design and development.
• Strong written communication skills, including presenting technical information, writing procedures and controls.
• Experience in regulatory capital and capital reporting.
• Attention to detail coupled with ability to simplify the complex.
• Strategic thinker that can understand complex business challenges and potential solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and VBA.