Market Risk - Stress Testing Business Analyst

Bank of America•Charlotte, NC

14h•Onsite

About The Position

Global Markets and International Risk serves as independent market risk oversight of the Firm’s trading activities. The Global Market Risk Stress Testing team within this organization is responsible for the implementation and management of critical enterprise processes and analysis to support the global markets business and senior risk management. The team is seeking a highly motivated individual to support market risk stress testing, including regulatory mandated stress testing activities, formal and ad-hoc scenario analysis. The candidate in this role will have a wide range of responsibilities from coordinating production processes, assisting in the management and coordination of projects and initiatives with Technology to drive operational excellence, and monitoring controls and metrics associated with our key production processes. This work will require extensive engagement across risk functions, technology teams and other partners across the Firm. The candidate will also be a key participant in initiative planning related to stress testing and reporting and will become a subject matter expert on key aspects of market risk and counterparty stress testing and reporting. This role will be expected to support the team’s success through an individual contributor role and will have no formal management responsibilities.

Requirements

7 - 10 years of experience in the financial industry, ideally with market risk concepts and stress testing knowledge
Technology related Project Management experience
Highly motivated individual who fully understands the demands of a market risk professional with ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Highly proficient at communication with ability to influence co-workers across our global team and all levels of the organization
Intellectually curious with the ability to investigate and develop root cause analysis for issues and propose corresponding process or technology changes
Effective time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple high priority deliverables simultaneously
Experience with regulatory exams and audit

Nice To Haves

Coaching
Collaboration
Continuous Improvement
Process Design
Risk Management
Analytical Thinking
Data Quality Management
Problem Solving
Regulatory Relations
Reporting
Business Process Analysis
Controls Management
Data and Trend Analysis
Prioritization
Written Communications

Responsibilities

Coordinate stress testing requests across various stakeholders, including Technology
Investigate and escalate production issues in collaboration with Technology
Manage initiative requests across the team for prioritization in the annual cycle
Drive business requirements for funded technology initiatives for the team
Support adoption of firm-wide strategic initiative impacting trading and counterparty stress testing and reporting
Monitor and report on key health metrics in the stress testing processes