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Bank of America Cons Prod Strategy Mgr I in Chicago, Illinois
Cons Prod Strategy Mgr I
Phoenix, Arizona;Belfast, Maine; Plano, Texas; Richmond, Virginia; Fort Worth, Texas; New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Farmington Hills, Michigan; Kennesaw, Georgia
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. 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 organization.
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!
Job Description:
This job is responsible for leading a group of employees who perform strategic analysis to understand portfolio risk, increase profitability, and optimize operational performance. Key responsibilities include determining strategic priorities for the team, identifying trends, and leading efforts to maximize risk versus return for the business unit. Job expectations include using data and analytics to solve complex problems, coaching and developing employees, and partnering across technology, product, and risk leadership to drive performance.
Manages a group of analysts that are responsible for performing strategic analysis to improve portfolio risk, profitability, performance forecasting and operational performance for consumer products and related divisions, such as credit cards. This position requires determining key priorities for their team while also providing analytical and technical guidance to analysts to drive project completion. Key functions involve developing asset quality monitoring, identifying business trends based on economic and portfolio conditions, and executing strategic enhancements. Manages the team's analysis focusing on criteria margins, model score use, forecasting, portfolio trends, and demographic performance. Responsible for conducting interviews, training Card Strategy/ Consumer Products Analysts, and guiding all aspects of project development. Communicates business trends creates financial assessments and interprets analytics for senior management. Proven experience at developing technical skills of their team. Sound knowledge of SAS / SQL, financial statements, and business processes preferred. 5+ years Strategy Management experience preferred.
Are you a strategic thinker? Love to bring structure and organize things? Ready for the chance to drive real change in an organization? We are searching for a motivated person to help drive that transformation in our client onboarding and digital/card transaction areas.
The Emerging Fraud Risk Strategies team is keenly focused on product innovation and responsible growth. This is a highly visible role that will focus on identifying trends and strategy opportunities related to fraudulent applications, subsequent transactional patterns and operational treatment efficiencies.
A successful candidate will work with managers and a group of analysts that are responsible for performing strategic analysis to improve portfolio risk, profitability, performance forecasting and operational performance for consumer products. This position requires a rigorous analytical focus on monitoring for shifts in fraud activity, transactional dynamics and effectively communicating trends and opportunities for improvement. Key functions involve developing transaction monitoring, identifying business trends based on economic and portfolio conditions, and executing/monitoring strategic enhancements. This role requires strong written, visual and verbal communications skills. Role is expected to communicate, influence and negotiate both vertically and horizontally to manage risk.
Responsibilities:
Performs complex analysis of financial models, market data, financial data, and portfolio trends to understand product performance and improve portfolio risk, profitability, performance forecasting, and operational performance
Supports department-wide strategies and portfolio trend analysis, forecasting, and risk/control performance
Leads innovation by identifying and championing large scale initiatives that improve the risk management, profitability, and control oversight of risks for the business unit
Identifies business trends based on economic and portfolio conditions and communicates findings to senior management
Coaches employees on best practices for structuring complex problems, performing analysis, and communicating the results and implications of their work
Maintains strategic relationships with peers and counterparts across product, technology, and business control functions
Responsible for oversight of the application fraud money movement, trend identification and development of segmentation to responsibly manage fraud risk.
Ensures effective governance and cadence on progress reviews, communication, stakeholder updates as well as enhances clarity for the wider team and work streams on backward / forward linkages across business processes
Safeguards risk mitigation and sufficiency of controls to protect key business outcomes and guarantees seamless hand off to operations team for new processes
Role integrates knowledge of end-to-end business process into program planning and decisioning processes
Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
Diversity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company D&I goals.
Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.
Required Qualifications:
Strong technical ability with SAS and SQL
Strong strategic thinking skills with a track record of being able to break complex problems down and develop a clear strategy / action plan.
Experience conducting portfolio analysis and segmentation development.
Strong technical acumen to understand data and process flows, especially as it relates to direct decision engine management.
Ability to work across functional lines and organizational levels to drive results.
Exceptional communication and influence skills - Will be responsible for working both "in the details" and also be able to articulate the "executive-level" summary.
Desired Qualifications :
-Experience in Tableau
- Prior experience leading a team of technical analysts
-Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
-Prior experience in retail banking or transactional analysis and strategy
-Prior experience leading fraud or risk management strategy implementation teams
Skills:
Analytical Thinking
Data and Trend Analysis
Fraud Management
Prioritization
Talent Development
Business Analytics
Critical Thinking
Data Visualization
Decision Making
Presentation Skills
Collaboration
Conflict Management
Innovative Thinking
Issue Management
Oral Communications
Minimum Education Requirement : Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
Pay Transparency details
US - NY - New York - 1114 Avenue Of The Americas - Grace (NY1544)
Pay and benefits information
Pay range
$109,000.00 - $153,200.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.
Discretionary incentive eligible
This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.
Benefits
This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.
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