EFR Capital Risk Manager

Job Description

This role is responsible for providing risk oversight and advice to the Line of Business (LOB) on risk management issues. Key responsibilities include identifying risks to which the LOB is exposed, implementing measures to prevent and mitigate losses, and monitoring risk outcomes. The role requires the ability to recognize all risk categories—including credit, market, operational, and compliance—and directs risk staff or participates in establishing risk management procedures and standards.

• Participates in establishing risk management procedures and standards
• Executes risk framework activities, including independent monitoring and testing of controls and risk management processes for the LOB
• Liaises with businesses to understand market trends and impacts on portfolio, using knowledge of stress testing and its applicability to risk categories
• Ensures adherence to the policies and procedures established by the company
• Manages risk requests, breach remediations and provides risk-effective challenges for front-line units
• Develops risk management analyses, reports, and approval procedures and guidelines on risk limits by type of product and/or transaction

Enterprise Financial Risk (EFR) delivers independent risk management of the activities and processes associated with managing the Company’s capital, liquidity, and interest rate risks, including price risk in the CFO-managed securities portfolio. As the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) function covering the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Group, EFR brings together a holistic view across all seven risk types for the Company’s CFO.

Enterprise Capital Risk Management (ECRM) is a department within Enterprise Financial Risk (EFR). It provides an independent assessment of Bank of America’s capital adequacy and the risks to the capital position, as described within BAC’s Risk Framework.

Operating within BAC’s Risk Framework, understand and drive all components of the end-to-end Capital/Capital Risk management process/program for the Enterprise. As a risk-horizontal team, the role ensures Enterprise adherence to Capital Management policy and any resultant standards and guidance. Key responsibilities include risk identification across the 8 lines of business and legal entities, establishing forecasting and stress testing processes, and monitoring risk processes across the 8 lines of business and legal entities, including the review and challenge of Board and Management Level Risk Appetite Limits for our Enterprise and material subsidiaries.

• Lead EFR coverage of SEC/FINRA broker dealer net capital rules and requirements, including executing capital calculation testing and review and challenge of FOCUS report filings and calculations
• Review and challenge key capital management activities, including capital planning and forecasting for broker dealer entities, capital risk appetite limits, and subsidiary capital actions/dividends
• Develop and demonstrate acumen for the identification of capital risks and mitigants
• Ensure understanding of the business processes that may increase risk, and the mitigants to that risk
• Assist in the establishment and execution of all Enterprise Risk Management Program requirements
• Coordinate and conduct execution of risk framework activities that are the responsibility of EFR, including independent review and risk assessment of front-line owned processes
• Conduct and ensure appropriate and adequate documentation for all independent risk reviews and risk points of view, including appropriate escalation and communication to Senior Management
• Conduct and document risk’s acceptance and understanding of the capital impacts from new products and new transactions
• Deliver effective review and challenge of front-line owned processes that generate or impact risk or Capital position
• Draft and communicate executive and committee messaging on a regular basis in a variety of formats, including PowerPoint and MS Word
• Support corporate-wide risk-related initiatives, including regulatory change
• Enhance the Risk landscape by ensuring our balance sheet and…