Job Description:
Job Title: Audit Supervisor - General AML (BSA/AML including Sanctions)
Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President
Location: Chester
Company Overview:
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.
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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!
Location Overview Chester:
Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.
Role Description:
As Audit Supervisor, you will use your expertise in BSA/AML, Sanctions and Compliance to execute the assigned areas of audit work, providing day to day coaching and guidance to teammates. You will work on audit strategy for the sound application of risk based auditing by defining audit scope, audit program, and test procedures. You will demonstrate strategic thinking and support change.
Your role will involve the timely delivery of audit work within quality standards and conformance to audit policies and procedures. You will assess issues for impact to business processes, controls and strategies, recommend severity ratings and escalation of broad themes or trends.
As Audit Supervisor you will draft quality and timely audit issues and reports.. You will exercise critical thinking and judgment to effectively influence your leadership teams, in order to improve the control environment. When leading an audit engagement, you will be responsible for day to day coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback, continually fostering an inclusive work environment.
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrable experience with BSA/AML related risks and a solid business understanding of the financial services industry, especially those associated with correspondent banking, corporate banking, treasury management and capital markets conducting AML, sanctions and fraud reviews.
- Perform BSA / AML Compliance and Fraud audits at the enterprise level as well as other diverse lines of business and specialty areas;
- Using your experience in local financial crime regulations to support others
- Perform audit reviews for suspicious activity filings and other compliance operational work including sanctions screening and client due diligence.
- Support the execution of the annual BSA independent audit as well as regulatory and partner exams by creating presentation materials and providing timely responses to inquiries.
- Design and perform compliance audit procedures, including identifying and defining issues, reviewing and analyzing evidence, and documenting processes.
- Leverage available data and analytical tools during the planning, fieldwork, and reporting phases of audit delivery.
- Communicate the results of audit projects to management (written reports/oral presentations).
- Establish and build working relationships with internal and external management.
- Perform AML risk assessments of business activities, potential risks exposures, and materiality of loss.
What we are looking for:
- Track record of audit experience in areas related to AML, sanctions and fraud risk management programs and regulations, banking regulations, local standards, and internal policies, or
- Demonstrable experience of conducting Bank Secrecy Act /Anti-Money Laundering audits, Risk Management audits, Compliance audits or a combination, or
- AML investigations and SAR writing experience
- Experience leading AML investigators at a regulated financial institution in EMEA.
- Solid experience in Audit, Compliance, Risk, Business Controls, or other related experience
- Excellent project management, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills; strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Exceptional analytical and critical thinking abilities; Able to develop and convey a point of view
- Professionalism, dependability, integrity and trustworthiness combined with a cooperative attitude. Able to thrive in a dynamic team environment
- Highly motivated self-starter with ability to multitask and complete assignments within time constraints and deadlines. Individual with desire to learn and teach others, high energy, positive attitude
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products
Skills that will help:
- ACCA, AML, Audit, or Risk and Compliance qualifications would be an advantage.
Benefits of working at Bank of America:
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- Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
- Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
- 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
- The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
- Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
- Opportunity to access our Arts and Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK's most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.
Bank of America:
Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.
We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, membership of the Traveller Community, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependents or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.
We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.