Bank of America Corporation

Consumer AML Program Lead

Bank of America Corporation$113K — $170K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of project/program management experience
  • Experience with People, Process, Technology projects
  • Strong business mindset with sound business judgment
  • Effective stakeholder management skills
  • Proficiency in project management tools like Jira and Confluence
  • Certification in PMP, CSM, CPO, or Agile methodologies
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and promote positive change

Responsibilities

  • Defines program controls, procedures, and governance structures
  • Develops project scope, deliverables, and timelines with stakeholders
  • Monitors task execution and tracks program milestones
  • Analyzes program risks and prepares reports for stakeholders
  • Identifies key requirements for cross-functional collaboration
  • Facilitates effective decision-making on cross-project opportunities
  • Builds relationships with stakeholders and communicates transparently about issues

Benefits

  • Access to paid time off
  • Industry-leading benefits package
  • Resources and support for employee development
  • Opportunities to make a genuine impact
  • Contributions to sustainable business growth and community engagement
Full Job Description
Job Description:

This job is responsible for overseeing programs and projects specific to corporate change initiatives that impact how the bank does business, provides a product or service, or executes a function. Key responsibilities include serving as the primary contact to department managers for critical change initiatives and communicating, influencing, and negotiating vertically and horizontally to obtain or leverage resources. Job expectations include delivering regulatory and executive materials and ensuring results align to program strategy, simplification, and new capabilities.

Responsibilities:
  • Defines program controls, processes, procedures, reporting cadence, decision governance structures, and ways of working with key stakeholders
  • Works closely with project sponsors, cross-functional teams, and assigned project managers to develop the scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new change initiatives
  • Monitors the execution of defined tasks through tracking of program milestones and their statuses, developing program plans, and measuring progress against ongoing key performance indicators
  • Analyzes, evaluates, and overcomes program risks, and produces program reports for managers and stakeholders
  • Identifies key requirements for cross-functional teams and external vendors to perform in alignment with the program objectives
  • Works with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department, leading them to negotiate decision making for efficient and effective resolution
  • Meets with stakeholders to provide transparency into project issues and decisions on services, builds positive relationships, asks questions, and uses tools to uncover root causes to challenges, identify opportunities, and make recommendations


Skills:
  • Consulting
  • Problem Solving
  • Program Management
  • Project Management
  • Reporting
  • Collaboration
  • Leadership Development
  • Performance Management
  • Presentation Skills
  • Issue Management
  • Oral Communications
  • Process Design
  • Process Performance Management


Line of Business Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Program Manager to join our Consumer AML Operations Change and Transformation team. The Program Manager will manage medium-large initiatives that may significantly impact on Consumer AML Operations initiatives that may significantly impact on Consumer AML Operations. This position will be accountable for the management of the project life cycle, from initiation through implementation. The Program Manager will work directly with management of the impacted business and operations area to set strategic direction of the project. We are looking for a strong leader with the right level of experience, ability to challenge and influence stakeholders, and with excellent analytical skills, critical thinking, and process improvement mind-set.

Responsibilities:
  • Management of deliverables for all project management activities aligned to the core change management team and PMO workstreams supporting the program roadmap
  • Manages, leads and directs the work efforts at the portfolio level
  • Adheres to and furthers the majority of the framework and structure for how the program and projects will operate
  • Represents the health and status of program and projects, through effective verbal and written communication channels, to Change executive and senior stakeholders
  • Partners with sponsors to support and maintain momentum and plans for the delivery of the projects
  • Implements best-practice artifacts and routines to capture and manage the end to end plan of record
  • Manages portfolio reporting at all levels
  • Ensures stakeholder engagement and keeps them informed of progress
  • Tracks and escalates risk and issues at the portfolio level
  • Works with management to further process maturity in organization
  • Serves as primary contact for new intake items for organizations
  • Communicates, influences, and negotiates both vertically and horizontally to obtain or leverage necessary resources
  • Creates a clear, coherent approach to guide effective program/initiative setup, execution, and controls
  • Drives change governance and change control facilitating the definition of requirements and development of Change Control documentation
  • Integrates end-to-end business process into program planning and decisioning processes
  • Ensures clearly defined responsibilities and accountabilities for key program/project roles
  • Supports team members with escalations and impediments on projects
  • Adhere and deliver on enterprise change management standards


Requirements:
  • At least 8 years of project/program management experience
  • Experience managing People, Process, Technology Projects and understanding various technologies and infrastructure concepts
  • Excellent project management skills, including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
  • Ability to identify and propose the tasks & deliverables that will be necessary to achieve the desired outcome
  • Strong business centric mindset with ability to utilize sound business judgment and tailor approach to drive optimal business outcomes
  • Ability to manage and communicate with stakeholders
  • Knowledge of structured project management methods
  • Ability to challenge and influence stakeholders at senior levels
  • Ability to lead cross-functional workgroups and champion initiatives
  • Competent with MS products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio
  • Competent with Jira and confluence for project management in a waterfall and agile framework


Other Qualifications and Desired Skills:
  • Prior experience in Global Operations and/or CAML processes desirable Experience in planning, leading, delivering associate and client readiness plans
  • Strives to bring new thoughts and ideas to teams to drive innovation and unique solutions
  • Excels in working among diverse viewpoints to determine the best path forward
  • Excellent verbal and communications skills. Provide clear, concise direction to the broader team while delivering comprehensive status to senior executives or project champions.
  • Creativity - able to look at a problem from a new perspective and to develop new ideas and solutions
  • Self-starter who can take ambiguous information and drive to logical outcomes while constantly challenging the status quo
  • Commitment to challenging the status quo and promoting positive change
  • Believes in value of diversity so we can reflect, connect, and meet the diverse needs of our clients and employees around the world
  • Excels in ambiguity
  • Experience working in a global environment
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • Certification in PMP, CSM, CPO and/or Agile Methodologies


Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1400 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 4 (NJ2140)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$113,100.00 - $170,900.00 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.

About Bank of America Corporation

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America. It provides services in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It was formed through the combination of the corporate and investment banking activities of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch following the acquisition of the latter by the former in January 2009. Bank of America completed the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co on 1 January 2009. Bank of America began rebranding all of its corporate and investment banking activities under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch name in September 2009. In April 2010, Bank of America Merrill Lynch appointed Christian Meissner as head of investment banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In April 2011, Bank of America Merrill Lynch integrated its corporate and investment banking operations into a single division. In October 2013, Bank of America Merrill Lynch was recognised as the Most Innovative Investment Bank of the Year in The Banker's Investment Banking Awards.

Bank of America Corporation Careers

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Learn more about Bank of America Corporation
Size
208,000 employees
Market Cap
$260.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$17.8 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
-1.4%
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