Audit Manager

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
 

Job Description:

This job is responsible for overseeing assigned areas of audit work for Lines of Business (LOBs), including Global Strategy and Enterprise Platform (GSEP) areas that include Third/Fourth Party Risk Management, Accounts Payable, Enterprise Change Management and Corporate Strategy. Key responsibilities include acting as an Auditor-in-Charge (AIC), driving risk-based auditing by defining scope and test procedures to evaluate the control environment in conformance with audit policies, assessing issues for business impact and recommending severity ratings, drafting audit reports, and managing business partner relationships. Job expectations include fostering an inclusive work environment, and mentoring team members.

Responsibilities:

• Executes audit strategy for the sound application of risk-based auditing by defining audit scope and audit programs, and drafting audit reports leveraging automation and innovative methods in a timely and high quality manner

• Acts as Auditor-in-Charge (AIC) by overseeing audit testing and ensuring it is executed in a timely manner and conforms with quality standards, audit policies, and procedures

• Assesses impacts to business processes, controls, and strategies to provide recommendations on severity ratings and escalate broad themes or trends accordingly based on existing business knowledge

• Exercises intellectual curiosity and judgment to effectively influence and challenge management to improve the control environment and drive continuous improvements on audit

• Oversees a team of associates and provides day-to-day mentoring and guidance and fosters an inclusive work environment

• Maintains business partner relationships, primarily with line management, to develop business knowledge

• Exercises sound knowledge of product, business, and technical expertise to effectively challenge management to improve the control environment

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.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.

• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.

• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.

• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.

• Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.

• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.

• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.

• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years Audit or risk control risk/controls background preferably in financial services.

• Strong project management skills, proven organizational, coordination and action tracking skills.

• Experience in performing end-to-end substantive testing. Understanding of statistical sampling testing approach is a plus.

• Ability to plan, execute and evaluate audit test plans within a risk-based audit methodology.

• Strong analytical skills. Ability to analyze large amounts of data and turn it into usable information.

• Ability to work in a very detailed manner as well as to look broadly across a population and develop connections and themes identifying risk and concerns.

• Ability to successfully communicate to influence management and lead change in both strategic and tactical initiatives.

• Self-starter, desire to learn able to teach others, positive attitude, exhibits flexibility.

• Bachelor’s degree and/or Advanced degree with relevant experience.

Desired Qualifications

• Background in auditing Third Party Risk Management, Accounts Payable, Corporate Strategy/Planning

• Certified Internal Audit (CIA) certification

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking

• Audit Planning

• Internal Audit Review

• Issue Management

• Risk Management

• Business Acumen

• Coaching

• Project Management

• Relationship Building

• Written Communications

• Attention to Detail

• Automation

• Critical Thinking

• Technical Documentation

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - CT - East Hartford - 101 E River Dr - One Riverview Square (CT2550), US - NJ - Pennington - 1500 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 5 (NJ2150), US - RI - Providence - 1 Financial Plz - 1 Financial Plaza (RI1537)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range$118,000.00 - $160,000.00 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.

Benefits

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.