Global Financial Crimes Manager

Bank of America; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Global Financial Crimes Surveillance Manager to lead end-to-end surveillance governance, risk assessment, and remediation across fraud and sanctions controls. You will coordinate with Front Line Units, Control Functions, and cross-enterprise teams to ensure timely risk identification and remediation.

The role emphasizes executive communication and the ability to translate complex analytics into clear risk implications for senior stakeholders, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in financial crimes, surveillance, investigations, compliance, or related roles.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional analytical reviews or risk programs from intake through remediation.
• Knowledge of AML, sanctions, fraud, and regulatory expectations.
• Experience establishing governance routines, quality standards, and escalation processes.

Responsibilities

• Drives end-to-end governance of targeted surveillance analyses from intake to closure.
• Establishes review standards and quality controls for timely, well-documented outcomes.
• Monitors portfolio, milestones, risks, dependencies, and emerging concerns; escalates material risks.
• Coordinates reporting on activity, findings, trends, remediation, and capabilities.
• Provides credible challenge of scope, methodology, and conclusions to ensure risk is addressed.
• Drives remediation of data, process, control, and capability gaps; manages actions and closures.
• Partners with multiple risk teams to align priorities and remove barriers.
• Uses portfolio insights to refine surveillance typologies and tools.

Skills

Financial Crimes

Data Analysis

Suspicious Activity

Threat Intelligence

Data Visualization

Risk Assessment

Executive Communication

Stakeholder Management

AML Knowledge

Sanctions Knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Position Summary:

This job is responsible for executing substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include working directly or through compliance officers for the Front Line Units (FLUs) and Control Functions (CFs) to complete compliance, policy, operational/fraud risk management requirements.

The Global Financial Crimes Surveillance Control Tower Manager drives end-to-end governance, coordination, and oversight of targeted financial crimes surveillance analyses to ensure risks are identified, communicated, and remediated in a timely and consistent manner.

Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities include managing the surveillance review pipeline, establishing prioritization and quality standards, monitoring risks and deliverables, coordinating stakeholder reporting and escalation, and driving issue remediation. Job expectations include exercising significant independent judgment, providing credible challenge, ensuring transparency across the analysis lifecycle, and enabling the ongoing development and refinement of surveillance typologies and capabilities.

Additional Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Drives end-to-end governance of targeted surveillance analyses, from intake and prioritization through execution, review, escalation, and closure
• Establishes review standards, operating routines, and quality controls to promote consistent, timely, and well-documented analytical outcomes
• Monitors the surveillance portfolio, delivery milestones, risk indicators, dependencies, and emerging concerns, escalating material risks and delays
• Coordinates management and stakeholder reporting on analytical activity, findings, thematic trends, remediation progress, and capability enhancements
• Provides credible challenge of analytical scope, methodology, conclusions, and recommended actions to ensure risks are appropriately identified and addressed
• Drives remediation of identified data, process, control, and capability gaps, including ownership, action planning, dependency management, and closure validation
• Partners with surveillance analysts, investigations, threat intelligence, sanctions, fraud, technology, data, and line-of-business risk teams to align priorities and resolve barriers
• Uses lessons learned and portfolio insights to support development and refinement of surveillance typologies, analytical tools, and operating practices

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in financial crimes, surveillance, investigations, compliance, operational risk, data analytics, program management, or a related discipline
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional analytical reviews, risk programs, or control tower activities from intake through remediations
• Knowledge of anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, financial crime typologies, surveillance practices, and applicable regulatory expectation's
• Experience establishing governance routines, quality standards, management reporting, risk metrics, and escalation processes'
• Ability to provide credible challenge, evaluate complex analytical conclusions, and influence decisions across senior and technical stakeholder's
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, issues, and remediation actions in a dynamic risk environment
• Strong executive communication and written reporting skills, with the ability to translate complex analysis into clear risk implications and decision's
• Desired: Experience in financial services; CAMS, PMP, or related risk, compliance, or analytics certification

Skills:

• Financial Crimes Data Analysis
• Behavioral Analytics
• Suspicious Activity Detection
• Typology Identification & Development
• Threat Intelligence Analysis
• Network & Entity Analysis
• Data Mining & Visualization
• Risk Identification & Assessment
• Investigative Problem Solving
• AML Regulatory Knowledge
• Sanctions Risk
• Data Quality Management
• Intelligence Reporting
• Written Communications
• Stakeholder Management

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40