Global Financial Crimes Executive - Global Payments New York, New York;Charlotte, North Carolina; Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California **Job Description:** 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. 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! **Job Description:** The Global Financial Crime (“GFC”) Executive I contributes to the direction and drives the development of enterprise-wide money laundering, economic sanctions, and fraud compliance and operational risk practices consistent with applicable laws, rules, regulations and regulatory guidance. The GFC Executive I serves as a trusted advisor to the Chief Compliance and Operational Risk (“C&OR”) Officers of the Front Line Units (“FLU”) and Control Functions (“CF”) for the company and to the leaders of the FLUs and CFs directly. This role is responsible for executing the Company's Global Financial Crimes Program related to Global Payments and requires a strong risk management discipline and experience with operational risk processes. This role will lead a team responsible for identifying and assessing inherent financial crimes risk and controls associated with Global Payments, Money services businesses/Fintech and Correspondent Banking. This role is responsible for advising the front line units (FLUs) on Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering laws, rules and regulations and the Global Financial Crimes Policy and Standards. This individual will be responsible for leading a team accountable for identifying, escalating and mitigating financial crimes compliance and operational risk. This individual will be responsible for evaluating and communicating the effectiveness of FLU controls and be able to drive the consistent improvement and strengthening of these controls to improve upon the Company's ability to detect and prevent unusual or suspicious activity. **Responsibilities** + Leading discussions with the Global Payments Services Front Line Unit (FLU), Global Banking FLUs, Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GCOR) and Global Financial Crimes (GFC) partners to analyze business processes, internal controls, client behavior and transaction trends. + Contributing to the creation and implementation of GFC Coverage Plan which defines the scope of coverage for Global Payments Services and Global Banking FLUs – U.S and International. + Establishing the strategic direction for monitoring and reporting on GFC, FLU and Enterprise risk tolerance metrics that are reflective of key risks within the areas of coverage and escalating financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees. + Engaging with the Financial Crimes Analytics Team the Financial Intelligence Unit to drive thematic reviews of key risks associated with high risk products, payment channels, and clients and to ensure effective GFC automated detection monitoring + Directing the completion compliance activities such as: designing monitoring and testing routines and reporting to identify potential AML risks and/or control weaknesses; conducting targeted risk assessments, threat assessments and process understandings to identify new or emerging financial crimes risks; and identifying, aggregating, reporting, escalating, inspecting and challenging the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes. + Guiding FLUs on potential financial crimes impacts in the client selection and product expansion processes. + Participating in Regulatory Meetings and Exams to provide Risk Manager perspective on critical issues and engaging directly with Audit to provide advice and guidance on FLU Audits and respond to all Audit requests and inquiries. + Participating in industry forums and monitors regulatory expectations, emerging legislation and regulation, political scrutiny, litigation and key influencers to identify and mitigate emerging risks. **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. + **Diversity & Inclusion Champion:** Breaks down barriers to create a more inclusive environment that supports company D&I goals. + **Manager of Process & Data:** Challenges end-to-end process efficiency and effectiveness, champion data driven decision-making and removes obstacles to optimize operations. + **Enterprise Advocate & Communicator:** Contributes to enterprise strategy and influence messaging to connect team contributions to business purpose, results, and success. + **Risk Manager:** Inspects and challenges risk controls, governance and culture to ensure the timely identification, escalation, debate and remediation of risk across the organization. + **People Manager & Coach:** Coaches to sustain and elevates organizational performance while differentiating to ensure pay for performance. + **Financial Steward:** Efficiently allocates and manages resources across the organization to drive short and long term profitability. + **Enterprise Talent Leader:** Inspects and manages the health of the bench to ensure succession for the organization, while supporting enterprise talent needs. + **Driver of Business Outcomes:** Mobilizes organizational resources to deliver the full range of the bank’s capabilities to meet client needs and to gain competitive advantage. **Required Qualifications** + 8+ years of executive level experience in AML/Sanctions compliance or equivalent + Experience in payments and payments-adjacent funds flows (e.g., fiat-to-crypto) and ideally providing this expertise to individualized scenarios and client types across the globe + Experience with U.S., and ideally also with international, sanctions interpretation, due diligence, alert review, issue management, and regulatory engagement + Executive level and Board level communication experience + Experience interacting and problem solving effectively with business executives, counsel, and industry groups + Experience leading teams and initiatives + A self-motivated worker who is comfortable and effective providing guidance to junior teammates + Strong personal drive, attention to detail, individual initiative, a sense of urgency and responsiveness, with a desire to grow, learn, and take on increasing levels of responsibility + Ability to successfully communicate to influence management and lead change on both strategic and tactical initiatives. **Skills:** + Change Management + Decision Making + External Resource Management + Regulatory Compliance + Strategy Planning and Development + Issue Management + Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management + Risk Management + Talent Development + Written Communications + Coaching + Fraud Management + Inclusive Leadership + Investigation Management _The following laws or regulations restrict or prohibit the hiring of individuals with certain specified criminal history for the position:_ _FDIC_ **Shift:** 1st shift (United States of America) **Hours Per Week:** 40 **Pay Transparency details** US - CA - San Francisco - 315 Montgomery St - 315 Montgomery (CA5704), US - NY - New York - ONE BRYANT PARK - BANK OF AMERICA TOWER (NY1100), US - WA - Seattle - 401 Union St - Rainier Square (WA1510) Pay and benefits information Pay range $175,000.00 - $300,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set. 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