Job Description:

About Us

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!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview*

Market Risk management serves as independent risk oversight of the Firm’s trading activities across the various trading desks and trading portfolios. The Global Market Risk Portfolio Analysis team within Market Risk is responsible for the implementation and management of cross-product processes and analysis to support the Global Markets business and senior Risk management.

Job Description*

The team in India will support a broad set up of work in conjunction with employees located in Europe and the US. These workstreams include critical central process integral to Market Risk management at Bank of America, such as Reporting, VaR Analysis, Limits, and Stress Testing.  The Portfolio Analysis teams owns these processes end-to-end, managing production, analysis, governance, and related technology. The role offers an excellent entry point to the Risk organization, with the opportunity to interact with a broad cross section of teams across the bank. This is a high visibility role and would entail regular exposure to senior management.

Responsibilities*

Develop a deep understanding of end-to-end technology landscape supporting market risk limits platform, including exposure sources, frameworks, and integration points with upstream and downstream.  Implementation and monitoring of new limits. Utilize strong attention to detail and a working knowledge of SQL to investigate system issues, respond to ad-hoc queries.Present limits related initiatives to senior management in a clear, concise, and business friendly manner, translating complex technical information into intuitive insights.  Continuously identity areas for improvement in current book of work, with a focus on automating manual processes and reducing operational risk through efficiency gains.  Interpret and apply market risk limit policies to support governance processes and provide accurate, timely responses to related queries.  Proactively identify system design gaps or inefficiencies and collaborate with development teams to propose enhancements to improve platform performance and usability. 

Requirements*

Education - Bachelors/Masters degree in Engineering, Commerce, CA, MBACertifications If Any - CFA, FRM etc. will be an added advantageExperience Range - 5 – 8 years

Foundational skills*

Experience in a trading / market risk related fieldIntellectually curious with the ability to investigate and develop root cause analysis for portfolio changesExperience working with large data setsExperience with Python or other similar languagesHigh level of proficiency with Microsoft ExcelAdept at communication with ability to influence co-workers across our global team and all levels of the organization including escalation of issuesAbility to aggregate and synthesize complex data from multiple sourcesHigh level of attention to detail

Desired skills*

Effective time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple high priority deliverables simultaneously.Experience and understanding of common market risk metrics like Value at Risk (VaR)Experience with regulatory reporting, stakeholder management and/or audit

Work Timings*

12 Noon to 9 pm IST

Job Location*

Mumbai