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Operations Manager - Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence

Bank of America

Bank of America

Operations
Scranton, PA, USA · Richmond, VA, USA · Charlotte, NC, USA · United States · Remote
Posted on Jul 2, 2025

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!

Line of Business Job Description:

About Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence: The Center of Excellence for economic sanctions monitoring is part of Global Payment Operations (GPO). GPO is the central hub for Bank of America in playing a monumental and mission critical role in establishing, servicing, supporting and monitoring two of the most widely used electronic payment processing vehicles – Wire and ACH – in the financial services arena worldwide. GPO is also accountable for the SSCoE (Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence) that reviews all of Bank of America’s customers and transactions to ensure compliance with Bank of America’s Economic Sanctions Program. SSCoE serves BAML’s eight lines of business, delivering global, regional and local capabilities through secure, fast and reliable technology, and people with the knowledge and experience to deliver timely and accurate review of all sanctions alerts across all products of Bank of America. Team also has the responsibility to provide support to client facing teams and clients where needed to educate on compliance program, drive better quality of data defining the customer and their day-to-day banking transactions.

Job Description:
This job is responsible for leading a segment or a small operations unit for a site, region, or product line within the bank's internal operations. Key responsibilities include identifying, analyzing, and resolving complex problems, ensuring compliance with policies, and developing and implementing new processes to improve operating efficiency and ensure accuracy of workflow. Job expectations include overseeing day-to-day activities of employees, including executing transactions and managing the budget, expenses, forecasting, and reporting.


Responsibilities:

  • Forecasts and manages staffing levels and capacities, provides effective coaching, and shares constructive feedback to drive Operational Excellence
  • Applies knowledge of the end-to-end processes and ensures adherence to bank and regulatory policy and procedures when making decisions that impact various operations and product lines
  • Develops and analyzes procedures to enhance unit and/or product-related activities and oversees budget and expense management, reporting, and forecasting for designated areas
  • Evaluates efficiencies and identifies areas of improvement and growth to the overall process, identifying data, metrics, and key performance indicators to measure process effectiveness
  • Aligns bank priorities and strategies to employee metrics and goals and strives to recognize, encourage, and improve team performance to support an inclusive work 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: Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully.
  • Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement.
  • Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Delivers clear and concise messages that motivate, convey the “why” and connects contributions to business results.
  • Risk Manager: Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks.
  • People Manager & Coach: Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback.
  • Financial Steward: Manages expenses and demonstrates an owner’s mindset.
  • Enterprise Talent Leader: Recruits, on-boards and develops talent, and supports talent mobility for career growth.
  • Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines.

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 3 years supervisory experience
  • Requires thorough operations knowledge of specific products/ services line managed, usually gained through operations experience.
  • Forecast / manage staffing levels and capacities
  • Performance management experience
  • Strong attention to detail and problem solving skills
  • Effective planning, time management and organizational skills
  • Participate in and drive collaborative efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve an evolving client base

Desired Qualifications:

  • Six Sigma
  • Knowledge of Sanctions

Skills:

  • Business Operations Management
  • Customer Service Management
  • Performance Management
  • Process Performance Measurement
  • Talent Development
  • Account Management
  • Client Management
  • Leadership Development
  • Process Management
  • Relationship Building
  • Hiring and Onboarding
  • Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
  • Process Design
  • Risk Management
  • Workforce Analytics

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40