GFC Manager - Global Markets

GFC Manager - Global Markets

Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Chandler, Arizona

To proceed with your application, you must be at least 18 years of age.

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. 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 an 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.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

This job is responsible for executing substantive money laundering, economic sanctions, and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include working directly or through compliance officers for the Front Line Units (FLUs) and Control Functions (CFs) to complete compliance, policy, operational / fraud risk management requirements.

Responsibilities :

Advises and directs 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

Produces and / or oversees independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU / CF Senior Leaders

Monitors the 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

Participates in industry forums and monitors regulatory expectations, emerging legislation and regulation, political scrutiny, litigation and key influencers to identify and mitigate emerging risks

Escalates financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management / board level committees

Identifies, aggregates, reports, escalates, inspects, and challenges the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU / CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes

Reviews and challenges internal and external operational loss events, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately

Required Skills :

Minimum 7 years experience

Strong understanding of global markets products and services, including foreign exchange, fixed income, equities, derivatives, and structured products.

Awareness of financial crime risks specific to markets activities, such as market abuse, insider trading, spoofing, layering, and misuse of information.

Understanding of money laundering and sanctions risks in trading and capital markets, including risks arising from third-party intermediaries, client onboarding, and complex transaction structures.

Knowledge of front-to-back trade flows and how trading desks, sales, operations, and compliance interact across the product lifecycle.

Familiarity with client due diligence (CDD) and counterparty risk assessments tailored to institutional clients, hedge funds, and broker-dealers.

Working knowledge of regulatory and industry frameworks, such as MAR, MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, FATF, and local AML / CTF requirements applicable to capital markets.

Conceptual understanding of surveillance and financial crime detection models, including trade surveillance, communications monitoring, and transaction monitoring systems - ability to interpret outputs and assess model limitations.

Ability to connect business activity patterns to potential financial crime indicators, ensuring that controls are risk-based and proportionate to product and client profiles.

Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively across trading, compliance, risk, and operations functions to identify and mitigate financial crime risks.

Strong analytical and communication skills, with the capacity to explain complex risk and model concepts to non-specialist stakeholders.

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.

Bank of America aims to create a workplace free from the dangers and resulting consequences of illegal and illicit drug use and alcohol abuse. Our Drug-Free Workplace and Alcohol Policy ("Policy") establishes requirements to prevent the presence or use of illegal or illicit drugs or unauthorized alcohol on Bank of America premises and to provide a safe work environment.