Operations Manager - Sanctions Screening Center of Excellence

Scranton, Pennsylvania

**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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

**Job Description:**

This job is responsible for managing 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, prioritizes employee development by providing 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, evaluates employee progress, and strives to recognize, encourage, and improve team performance to support an inclusive work environment

**Job Description Summary:**

Manages a specific operations segment or a small operations unit of the company's operations activities . May report to a group operations manager or a Sr. Operations Manager. Involved in a variety of projects. Responsible for expense management, enterprise management, and building business/client relationships. Oversees daily activities ensuring adherence to deadlines and quality standards and adherence to procedures and regulatory requirements (e.g. client inquiries, transaction research). Develops and implements new processes/procedures to improve operating efficiency and to ensure timeliness and accuracy of workflow. Decisions impact multiple product lines, customers, and associates. Modifies existing procedures and analyzes and resolves non-routine and/or moderately complex operational problems often requiring research and involvement from other business functional experts. Requires thorough operations knowledge of specific products/ services line managed, usually gained through operations experience. Forecast / manage staffing levels and capacities. Responsible for performance management. Six Sigma preferred. Bachelor's degree or comparable work experience preferred with 3-5 years supervisory experience.

**Required Qualifications:**

+ Leadership skills

+ Commitment to challenging the status quo and promoting positive change

+ Strong attention to detail and problem solving skills

+ Strong collaboration and influencing skills

+ Highly motivated to succeed in a fast-paced environment

+ Ability to develop team members to maximize their potential

+ Effective planning, time management and organizational skills

+ Excels in working among diverse viewpoints to determine the best path forward

+ Participate in and drive collaborative efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve an evolving client base

**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:**

3rd shift (United States of America)

**Hours Per Week:**

40

Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our teammates.

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