Bank of America Corporation

Senior Operations Manager | BPRO Financial Transaction Review

Bank of America Corporation$72K — $109K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in operations, finance, or related fields within regulated environments, including team leadership experience
  • Proven experience managing operational processes to ensure compliance and risk control
  • Skilled in reviewing financial transactions and identifying discrepancies
  • Experience in managing workflow and staffing to align with business goals
  • Ability to analyze operational metrics for process improvement

Responsibilities

  • Oversee transaction processes ensuring adherence to policies and risk management standards
  • Develop and implement procedures to improve operational efficiency and budget management
  • Manage staffing levels, providing coaching and feedback for employee development
  • Identify and implement improvements based on process effectiveness metrics
  • Align employee goals with bank priorities to enhance team performance

Benefits

  • Access to industry-leading benefits
  • Paid time off resources
  • Support for employee contributions to business and community growth
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Participation in an annual discretionary incentive plan
Full Job Description
Job Description:

This job is responsible for managing a unit for a site, region, or product line within the bank's internal operations. Key responsibilities include identifying, analyzing, and resolving highly complex problems, ensuring compliance with policies, and developing and implementing new processes to improve operating efficiency and ensure accuracy of workflow. Job expectations include managing employee performance, development, talent planning, and overseeing the budget, expenses, reporting, and forecasting.

Line of Business Description:

Upon the receipt of brokerage transaction requests requiring additional review, the Transaction Processing team ensures transactions are validated for accuracy and completeness. Once the review is completed, the team manages the resolution of transaction requests to support the secure, reliable movement of client assets and funds.

Responsibilities:
  • Oversees end-to-end processes and ensures adherence to bank and regulatory policy and procedures when making decisions that impact various operations and product lines by overseeing transaction reviews to confirm authorization, documentation, funding availability, and risk requirements before approval decisions
  • Develops and analyzes procedures to enhance unit and/or product-related activities and oversees budget and expense management, reporting, and forecasting for designated areas by directing transaction review practices and ensuring consistent execution of approval, exception, and return workflows
  • Manages staffing levels and capacities, prioritizes employee development by providing effective coaching and training, and shares constructive feedback to drive Operational Excellence by aligning team resources to transaction volumes and coaching associates on complex financial transaction reviews
  • Implements improvements to drive the growth to the overall processes and identifies data, metrics, and key performance indicators to measure process effectiveness by monitoring transaction approvals, exceptions, and returns to improve accuracy, efficiency, and service levels
  • Aligns bank priorities and strategies to employee metrics and goals, evaluates employee progress, and strives to recognize, encourage, and improve team performance to support an inclusive work environment by setting expectations for quality, risk management, and timely transaction decisions while supporting employee development and performance outcomes


Managerial Responsibilities:

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
  • Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully
  • Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement
  • Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Delivers clear and concise messages that motivate, convey the "why" and connects contributions to business results
  • Risk Manager: Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks
  • People Manager & Coach: Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback
  • Financial Steward: Manages expenses and demonstrates an owner's mindset
  • Enterprise Talent Leader: Recruits, on-boards and develops talent, and supports talent mobility for career growth
  • Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines


Required Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 4 years of experience in operations, finance, accounting, or a related function within a regulated or process-driven environment, including experience managing or leading a team
  • Experience overseeing operational processes, ensuring adherence to established procedures, service levels, risk controls, and regulatory requirements
  • Experience reviewing financial transactions, operational activity, or complex documentation to identify discrepancies, mitigate risk, and support accurate decision-making
  • Experience managing workflow, staffing, or capacity planning activities to meet business priorities and operational performance objectives
  • Experience analyzing operational metrics, reporting, or performance trends to identify issues, improve processes, and support business decision-making


Desired Qualifications:
  • Experience managing operations within financial services, wealth management, banking, accounting, or other highly regulated industries
  • Experience supporting budgets, forecasting activities, resource planning, or operational capacity management
  • Experience leading process improvement initiatives through the use of operational metrics, quality reviews, or performance reporting
  • Advanced experience using Microsoft Excel to analyze data, identify trends, and support operational reporting
  • General knowledge of brokerage transactions, investment products, account servicing, or transaction processing operations


Skills:
  • Business Operations Management
  • Customer Service Management
  • Performance Management
  • Process Performance Measurement
  • Talent Development
  • Account Management
  • Client Management
  • Leadership Development
  • Process Management
  • Relationship Building
  • Hiring and Onboarding
  • Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
  • Process Design
  • Risk Management
  • Workforce Analytics


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

$72,100.00 - $109,200.00 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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