Sr. Quantitative Finance Manager

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Bank of America

Financial Services

B

bankofamerica.com

10,001+ employees

Banking

Charlotte, NC

Public Company

3.5M LinkedIn followers

Raised $3.6B

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• This job is responsible for directing a team of finance managers to develop or
• validate quantitative analytics and models for specific business units or risk
• types. Job expectations include directing activity in their region to support
• business units and acting as a subject matter expert on specified quantitative
• modeling techniques, as well as serving as the first or second line of defense
• overseeing model performance, model risk, and model governance on critical model
• portfolios.
• Directs a quantitative team with model coverage of specified focus areas and
• oversees stakeholder engagement, including team effort in preparation for
• audit and regulatory exams
• Sets quantitative work priorities in line with the bank’s overall strategy
• and prioritization
• Identifies continuous improvements through reviews of approval decisions on
• relevant model development or model validation tasks, critical feedback on
• technical documentation, and effective challenges on model
• development/validation, while providing oversight to managers on reviews
• management in respective focus areas to support business requirements and the
• enterprise's risk appetite
• Leads and provides methodological, analytical, and technical guidance to
• effectively challenge and influence the strategic direction and tactical
• approaches of development/validation projects and identify areas of potential
• risk
• Works closely with model stakeholders and senior management with regard to
• communication of submission and validation outcomes
• Coordinates team projects, while managing and providing guidance to senior
• level staff on areas of expertise
• 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: Breaks down barriers to create a more
• inclusive environment that supports company Great Place to Work 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.
• 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.
• Global Risk Analytics (GRA) is a sub-line of business within Global Risk
• Management (GRM). GRA is responsible for developing a consistent and coherent
• set of models and analytical tools for effective Risk and Capital measurement,
• management and reporting across Bank of America. In addition to model
• development, GRA conducts model implementation, data management, model execution
• and analysis, forecast administration, and model performance monitoring. The
• team drives innovation, process improvement and automation across all of these
• activities.
• Overview of the Team – The Global Markets Risk Analytics (GMRA) team under GRA
• is responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring Counterparty Credit
• Risk (CCR), the Internal Model Method (IMM), Central Clearing Counterparties
• (CCP), and Value at Risk (VaR).  GMRA also develops analytical tools to support
• regulatory, audit, and internal risk management needs for Global Markets.
• Based in Chicago, this role sits within Market Risk Quants (MRQ) team under
• GMRA. MRQ team’s remit spans market risk models for internal risk management,
• market risk capital requirements for Internal Model Approach (IMA) approved
• Legal Entities within Basel 2.5 regulatory framework, and IMA and Standardized
• Approach (SA) for upcoming Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)
• regulatory framework, stress testing such as CCAR, EST, ICAAP, Recovery and
• Resolution Planning, and Climate Risk.
• Manages a group of staff responsible for developing and evaluating quantitative
• analytics/modeling for specific business units or types of transactions. Directs
• activity of staff in their area in providing support to the business unit and to
• other business units within Bank of America. Actively involved in the analytics
• effort, but spends significant amount of time managing staff and coordinating
• projects. Acts as a senior level resource or resident expert on particular
• analytic/quantitative modeling techniques. Provides guidance to staff on areas
• of expertise. Objective of this role is to deliver the operational capabilities,
• governance framework and obtain international regulatory approvals on
• regulations such as ECB TRIM, PRA and Basel Rules.
• Main responsibility for this role is to develop market risk models (model
• development, submission, production roll-out). As a Sr Quantitative Finance
• Develop quantitative risk models, analytics and applications in support of
• market risk assessment and regulatory capital calculation
• Perform analysis for VaR/RNiV model development, documentations/submissions
• and aid in addressing required action items raised by model risk management,
• issues from regulators, audit and model performance tests
• Perform statistical analysis on market historical data and model parameters
• Develop and support benchmarking and backtesting. Identify, analyze, explain
• any overages
• Partner with internal groups including Capital, Risk, Technology, Model Risk
• Management and Market Risk Management on model enhancement, performance
• testing and documentation to remediate internal and external requirements
• Conduct analysis and verification on market data, risk metrics and P&L time
• series
• Prepare developmental evidence and document to support internal and external
• exams
• Perform in-depth analysis on the bank’s risk model results using various
• quantitative tools such as back testing, bench-marking and sensitivity
• analysis
• initiatives
• Communicate the results of this analysis to all model stakeholders including
• risk management, model development, model risk, senior management and our
• regulators
• Support model development in confirming remediation of model issues prior to
• their being taken live

• PhD (preferred) or Master’s degree in quantitative fields such as financial
• engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, or
• equivalent
• Solid 5+ years of work experience in developing FO pricing models or market
• risk models
• Solid understanding of derivatives pricing especially the IR option pricing
• models
• In depth understanding of Value at Risk and statistical estimation methods
• Strong communication (both written and verbal) and collaboration skills (this
• project involves communicating with various groups within the firm)
• identify/suggest/resolve issues
• Work experience in IBOR/SOFR/ESTER/FRTB
• 1st shift (United States of America)
• 40
• Pay Transparency details

• Pay range
• $203,000.00 - $323,700.00 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.
• 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.