Operations Analyst - Sanctions Screening Center Of Excellence

Operations Analyst - Sanctions Screening Center Of Excellence

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.

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:

• Investigate Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) alerts for both domestic and international consumer, commercial and wholesale bank businesses or services functions
• Reviewing and processing OFAC transactions to meet compliance requirements
• Performs item processing functions under moderate supervision within a process that has built-in checks and balances.
• Ensures quality service and effective and efficient operations support for the assigned area's internal business partners and/or external customers/clients.
• Basic level reporting
• 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:

• Minimum of 1 year experience in finance and/or compliance.
• Must have experience working in a highly regulated production environment.
• Ability to remain focused in a repetitive environment.
• Ability to navigate through multiple systems while maintaining data integrity
• Analytical and detail oriented; ability to make accurate and timely decisions
• Good oral and written communications skills
• PC proficiency and excellent keyboarding/typing skills/data entry
• Ability to work independently, as well as, within a team
• Overtime as required

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: 3rd shift (United States of America) Hours Per Week: 40

Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our teammates.