Stress Testing Manager

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Job Description:
Manages process and resources responsible for building, consolidating and reporting stress testing results to executive management. Challenges assumptions and results and is comfortable communicating and influencing business partners based on these results. Can quickly build credibility with partners. Performs complex analysis related to earnings, balance sheet, capital and liquidity as well as associated risk exposures. Provides analytical support for explaining business/forecast strategies in the context of baseline and stress forecasts. Reviews and analyzes trends in stress results to best understand earnings, capital, and liquidity implications both internally and externally. Understands complex interactions between economic and operational factors and their resulting impact to product, business line and financial results & position of the company and can effectively communicate these interactions and implications to senior leaders. Highly effective at developing, motivating, and managing employees & organizations. Requires strong analytical, project management, influencing, communication and people management skills. Comfortable leading a dynamic, fluid work environment with tight deadlines. Experience in one or more of the Bank's businesses, Finance, or Risk is preferred.

As part of the Enterprise Scenario Planning and Execution (ESPE) Scenario Generation team, the candidate will support the macroeconomic scenario design and development process for the quarterly enterprise-wide stress testing cycles.

Team Responsibilities:

• Effectively designing and communicating enterprise-wide scenario details to executive management, board committees, and forecasting business partners
• Partnering with economists and model owners during the development of macroeconomic variable projections and scenario narratives
• Coordination with the Company’s risk identification processes and various lines of business to assess the enterprise’s material risks for inclusion into the customization of stress scenarios
• Integrating requirements for capital adequacy planning as defined across key international legal entities
• Evaluating the inventory of stress methodologies employed and monitoring the stress testing usage of the suite of macroeconomic variable projections, facilitating sensitivity analysis and understanding of their downstream impacts to the balance sheet and income statement
• Identification of areas of improvement in the scenario design process and implementation of solutions
• Drive the Scenario Generation governance requirements such as policy and procedure updates as well as quarterly control evidence and other requirements throughout the year

Position Description:

The candidate will support the design processes of the Scenario Generation team which include, but are not limited to, providing economic expertise in the development and customizations of internally-designed scenarios (including regulatory submission scenarios and management requested scenarios), conducting research and analyzing complex data to support future scenario work, assessing the Risk Inventory of the Company and how the risks may manifest in a specific scenario, communicating scenario requirements to downstream users, reviewing and challenging each scenario’s macroeconomic variables and narrative, and creating presentation materials for various committees. The candidate will be a key liaison with risk partners and forecasting teams across the company. The candidate also participates in a deeper analysis of select risks and partners with Line of Business SMEs to conduct detailed analysis for senior management.

A key requirement of the role will be to develop executive-level presentations, execute on ad-hoc priorities, and coordinate initiatives across ESPE. The position requires continuous interaction within the Lines of Business, Risk Management, and Finance to address inquiries related to methodology and risk coverage, scenario design, and stress variable projections. The candidate will engage with model developers and stakeholders to ensure conceptual soundness of economic scenario system of models owned by ESPE and reasonableness of scenario forecasts. In addition, the candidate will also support the execution of on-going scenario generation and scenario customization enhancement initiatives to further build-out related functions within Bank of America’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) processes and capital adequacy assessment processes for international entities.

Skills:

• Controls Management
• Internal Audit Review
• Issue Management
• Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing
• Regulatory Relations
• Interpret Relevant Laws, Rules, and Regulations
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines
• Regulatory Compliance
• Data Governance
• Data Modeling
• Data and Trend Analysis
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics or Finance or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of work experience in banking, finance or economic research
• Deep understanding of financial markets and macro-financial linkages
• Strong organization and planning ability with meticulous attention to detail
• Independent thinker who is proactive and takes initiative to overcome obstacles
• Capable of communicating complex economic and financial concepts to audiences with a broad range of technical sophistication
• Strong executive presence and ability to work with senior leaders in a matrixed environment
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
• Collaborative, team player with the ability to connect across groups
• Ability to effectively work under pressure and successfully manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills

Desired Skills:

• Master’s degree in Economics, Econometrics or equivalent
• Prior stress testing or scenario design experience
• Knowledge base of data sources, recent research and historical developments
• Prior corporate finance, stress testing or economic forecasting/research experience

Minimum Education Requirement: High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent