Senior Vendor Funding Lead | Strategic Finance

Bank of America; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading benefits

Paid time off

Discretionary incentive

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Vendor Funding Manager to oversee large-scale vendor funding and governance within the enterprise, coordinating across senior stakeholders. The role emphasizes disciplined financial stewardship, forecasting, and reporting to optimize funding use.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in payments/finance, strong negotiation and communication skills, and a Bachelor's degree. This on-site role offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of relevant experience in payments, finance, third-party management, vendor management, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience managing significant budgets, funding pools, financial commitments, vendor programs, or comparable portfolios with a high level of accuracy and accountability.
• Strong organizational and execution skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, dependencies, deadlines, and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Proven critical-thinking and problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to interpret complex requirements, identify options, and make sound recommendations.
• Strong relationship-management, negotiation, and influencing skills across business, functional, and external partner groups.
• Experience maintaining controls, reconciling financial information, and producing clear reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor's Degree required

Responsibilities

• Vendor funding governance: Manage multiple funding categories totaling several hundred million dollars annually, including intake, allocation, utilization, reconciliation, forecasting, documentation, and reporting.
• Stakeholder and vendor management: Build trusted relationships with senior-executive internal and external partners across the enterprise, including CSBB Products, Channels, GPS, Digital, Marketing, Finance and Accounting.
• Analysis and problem solving: Investigate complex funding issues, evaluate tradeoffs, and develop timely, well-reasoned solutions.
• Funding optimization: Apply creative and critical thinking to identify flexibility within contractual, policy, financial, and risk parameters.
• Network rule waivers: Manage the network rule waiver process from intake through disposition, including requirements validation, stakeholder review, documentation, approvals, tracking, renewals, and escalation of risks or exceptions.
• Performance reporting: Prepare concise management reporting on funding availability, utilization, commitments.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Strategic thinking

Relationship building

Negotiation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Vendor Funding Manager to oversee large-scale vendor funding and governance within the enterprise, coordinating across senior stakeholders. The role emphasizes disciplined financial stewardship, forecasting, and reporting to optimize funding use.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in payments/finance, strong negotiation and communication skills, and a Bachelor's degree. This on-site role offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.