Senior Auditor Economic Sanctions Specialist

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are committed to creating a workplace that is guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.

Our company is driven by a culture of Responsible Growth, which is reflected in our commitment to being a great place to work for our teammates around the world.

We believe in the importance of diversity and inclusion, and we strive to create an environment where everyone feels valued and respected.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Auditor Economic Sanctions to join our team. This role will be responsible for performing test work during moderately complex audit activities for Lines of Business (LOBs).

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and execute audit tests to evaluate the control environment and assess issues for business impact and recommend severity ratings under the supervision of senior team members.
• Identify control deficiencies, discuss with line management, and initiate control matter recommendations.
• Establish business partner relationships, primarily with line management, to develop business knowledge.
• Assess impacts to business processes, controls, and strategies to provide recommendations on severity ratings.
• Exercise sound judgment to effectively influence management to improve the control environment while developing knowledge of product, business, and technical expertise.
• Develop skills to use innovative tools to complete audit activities more efficiently (e.g., testing).
• Experience with economic sanctions related risks and a solid business understanding of financial services industry, especially those associated with correspondent banking, corporate banking, treasury management, and capital markets conducting sanctions reviews.
• Perform sanctions audits at the enterprise level as well as other diverse lines of business and specialty areas.
• Experience in US financial crime regulations including OFAC.
• Support the execution of sanctions audit as well as regulatory and partner exams by creating presentation materials and providing timely responses to inquiries.
• Design and perform compliance audit procedures, including identifying and defining issues, reviewing and analyzing evidence, and documenting processes.
• Leverage available data and analytical tools during the planning, fieldwork, and reporting phases of audit delivery.
• Communicate the results of audit projects to management (written reports/oral presentations).
• Establish and build working relationships with internal and external management.
• Perform sanctions risk assessments of business activities, potential risks exposures, and materiality of loss.
• Demonstrate experience in managing integrated internal audit and assurance delivery.
• Effective influence skills in communicating findings. This individual must be an articulate and effective communicator, both verbally and in writing.
• Strong interpersonal skills for interfacing with all levels of internal and external audit and management.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree.
• Minimum 1-3 years of audit experience in areas related to AML, sanctions, and fraud risk management programs and regulations, banking regulations, local standards, and internal policies.
• Minimum 1-3 years of experience conducting Economic Sanction audits, Risk Management audits, Compliance audits, or a combination.
• Minimum of 1-3 years of experience in Audit, Compliance, Risk, Business Controls, or other related experience.
• Excellent project management, interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills; strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking abilities; able to develop and convey a point of view.
• Professionalism, dependability, integrity, and trustworthiness combined with a cooperative attitude. Able to thrive in a dynamic team environment.
• Highly motivated self-starter with ability to multitask and complete assignments within time constraints and deadlines. Individual with desire to learn and teach others, high energy, positive attitude.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
• Analytical Thinking.
• Attention to Detail.
• Internal Audit Review.
• Risk Management.
• Technical Documentation.
• Automation.
• Business Acumen.
• Issue Management.
• Project Management.
• Critical Thinking.
• Relationship Building.
• Written Communications.

Desired Qualifications:

• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM), or Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Minimum Education Requirement:

• Bachelor's Degree.

Work Schedule:

1st shift (United States of America).

Hours Per Week:

40.

Pay Transparency details:

US - CT - East Hartford - 101 E River Dr - One Riverview Square (CT2550), US - CT - Stamford - 600 Washington Blvd (CT2561), US - RI - Providence - 1 Financial Plaza (RI1537).

Pay and benefits information.

Pay range: $83, $102,400.00 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.

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 and affirmative action, 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.

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