Global Financial Crimes Manager – Risk Appetite

Overview

In this role, you will shape Bank of America’s financial crime risk appetite and oversight across investigations and jurisdictions. You’ll collaborate with Front Line Units and Control Functions to ensure compliance, risk controls, and escalation of significant concerns. You will deliver insights from SAR data and investigations to inform strategic risk decisions and governance. This is a chance to drive risk-aware decision making within a global financial crime program and support regulatory examinations. You will partner with stakeholders to enhance investigative outcomes and risk reporting.

Pay / Benefits

• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Competitive pension plan
• Life assurance and income protection
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Flexible benefits and wellbeing options
• Wellbeing resources and employee support tools

Responsibilities

• Advise on and maintain financial crimes policies and standards with frontline units and control functions
• Oversee financial crimes risk management reporting to GC&OR stakeholders
• Identify, assess, and monitor emerging financial crimes risks within investigations
• Escalate risks to appropriate governance bodies
• Conduct process analysis to improve investigative outcomes
• Develop and implement risk-based internal controls to prevent and detect financial crimes
• Define tolerances, thresholds, and escalation triggers for SAR activity
• Monitor adherence to risk appetite across jurisdictions and entities
• Prepare and present risk appetite reporting to senior management
• Support regulatory exams, audits, and independent reviews
• Act as SME on financial crime investigations and SAR intelligence
• Produce MI, dashboards, and executive reporting
• Translate investigations data into actionable insights and inform strategic risk management

Key requirements

• Considerable experience in Financial Crimes, AML Investigations, Compliance, Operational Risk, Audit or Regulatory Management
• ACAMS, ICA, or equivalent financial crime certification
• Ability to partner across teams and deliver results
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Calm under tight deadlines with proactive escalation
• Ability to build and maintain relationships
• Self-starter with ability to work with limited guidance
• Experience/knowledge of Global Compliance and Operational Risk or Global Financial Crime risk management programs

• Stakeholder management
• Written and verbal communication
• Analytical thinking
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
• Financial Crime Investigations
• Financial Crime Risks

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