Global Funding Team Role
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This role is on the Global Funding team within Treasury, specifically the Treasury Capital Markets Execution team within Global Funding. Global Funding strives to utilize its global presence to provide efficient funding strategies across the enterprise in the most cost-effective manner, while managing the risks associated with those strategies. The Treasury Capital Markets Execution Team is tasked to manage all aspects of debt and capital markets activity to support the liquidity and capital management objectives of the company, supporting market execution, analytics, and governance across a broad set of debt and capital products. The team has responsibility in four core Treasury functions : (1) management and execution of market-facing funding activities for long-term products including debt and capital securities, primarily at BAC and Bank of America, NA; (2) partnership with Global Markets for structured notes; (3) analytics for global credit and capital markets as well as the debt and capital security footprint; and (4) relationship management with relevant underwriters across the globe. The activities and capabilities managed by the desk provide critical access to market-based funding which goes towards achieving GF's purpose of keeping the Parent and Bank properly funded at all times.
The role requires critical thinking about how the company manages its liquidity and capital footprint through evolving market and regulatory environments with an emphasis on attention to detail, teamwork, and strong communication skills. The Treasury group provides an opportunity to gain broad knowledge about the company and its many businesses as well as the global markets in which we transact. Global Funding employees interact daily with internal and external constituents including business lines, other Treasury functions such as Balance Sheet Management (BSM), Finance, Enterprise Capital Management (ECM) and Global Liquidity Management (GLM), internal control partners, regulators, and market participants.
This role requires critical thinking about the many challenges facing our company and industry with an emphasis on attention to detail, teamwork, and strong communication skills. The Treasury group provides an opportunity to gain broad knowledge about the company and its many businesses as well as the global markets in which we transact. Your day-to-day experience will be varied and challenging, and will allow you to extend your skills within various disciplines, such as market analysis, funding / capital / liquidity optimization, and transaction management.
Responsibilities
- Reviews and executes on extensive ad-hoc financial analysis related to funding risks and opportunities
- Identifies and implements ongoing process improvements to drive process efficiency and ensure activities are accurate and well-controlled
- Provides coaching and development opportunities to Trading teammates
- Develop strategies for funding execution, assessing market capacity, diversification, and financial impacts based on qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Manage real-time deal execution process of debt and capital instrument offerings and communicate relevant deal updates to internal leadership and regulators
- Analyze, propose, and execute strategic liability management actions to achieve targeted optimization of key metrics (P&L, NII, regulatory ratios, etc.)
- Monitor and analyze trends in the primary and secondary global debt and capital markets, with a primary focus on BAC and peer debt and capital instruments, to provide market insight, communicate risks and actionable recommendations to Global Funding leadership
- Engage with external counterparties (syndicate, debt capital markets, traders and diversity firms) on markets and deal-related dialogue
- Maintain knowledge of current and proposed regulations to understand potential market and company-specific impacts
- Monitor market environment and anticipate how external market factors may affect access to funding. React appropriately and elevate key risks
- Ensure ready access to market funding sources, including operational preparedness and program documentation necessary to transact across all product capabilities of the desk
- Produce liability and capital footprint analytics for management reporting and ad hoc financial analysis
- Produce concise presentations and email summaries of market analyses and conclusions
- Participate in stress testing and recovery and contingency planning exercises, providing expertise on funding dynamics in various scenarios
- Prepare routine materials for regulators and coordinate responses to ad hoc requests
- Perform ad-hoc projects, financial analysis related to the Company's debt and capital security footprint and prepare management reporting
- Implement routines and a robust control environment that achieves compliance with all policies, procedures, and directives relating to execution
- Engage with Global Markets team to understand structured note forecasts, risks, and opportunities to facilitate responsible growth of business
Required Qualifications
7+ years finance or markets experience (Treasury, Trading, or Strategic Finance)Understanding of markets, liquidity, financial math, and riskStrong Excel and PowerPoint skillsStrong analytical and decision-making skillsCritical thinking, attention to detail, analytical and investigative problem-solving skillsWork independently, with a team, with minimal supervision and efficiently prioritize tasksCommunicate effectively across a broad range of constituents in verbal, written, and presentation formsProven success in building and maintaining strong relationships across the EnterpriseThrive in a fast-paced, demanding environment, adapt to changing priorities and demonstrate initiativeInquisitive, willing to challenge the status quo and strive to improve processesComfortable leading an initiative as well as playing a support role on a broader teamDesired Qualifications
Undergraduate degree with economics, finance, or quantitative focusCurrently hold / held a Director or Vice President title or equivalent titleStrong understanding of fixed income and currency markets, in particular debt and capital instrumentsFamiliarity with financial regulatory environmentBloomberg and other market sourcesSQL and / or other advanced data manipulation skillsTableauPythonCFASkills
Trading StrategyCausation AnalysisProfitability AnalysisStakeholder ManagementBusiness AnalyticsData and Trend AnalysisProblem SolvingResearch AnalysisStrategic ThinkingShift : 1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week : 40