Senior Data Analyst - Sanctions Filter Support
Company: Bank of America
Location: Richmond
Posted on: April 4, 2026
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Job Description:
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 ensuring
operational data is fit for purpose, defining controls, and
monitoring processes are in adherence to enterprise data management
standards. Key responsibilities include triaging and remediating
data incidents, performing data analysis, training new users, and
performing impact analysis stemming from data updates. Job
expectations include helping in defining access and ownership of
data by domain, conducting quality control, and overseeing data
maintenance. Line of Business 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.
Responsibilities: Primary responsibility is to create / update
business rules to minimize the false-positive Sanctions alerts to
improve efficiency and effectives of the CoE’s alert review
process. Manage the multiple on-going initiatives by attending
calls from various projects, understand the Sanctions needs from
the projects, Provide requirements to the projects and track the
status of these projects. Analyze alerts on a daily basis to chalk
out strategies to reduce the false-positives, using different
pattern matching and trending techniques Assist in on-boarding new
applications / Clients into the Sanctions screening platform
requiring detailed discussions with various lines of businesses in
understanding the nature and type of data received from and assist
in data mapping into standard formats acceptable for Sanctions
screening Ability to query & analyze the data required for ad hoc
requirements on the fly and generate reports for the team to use.
Work with technology teams for requirements / testing and
implementing changes to improve / automate CoE processes. Ensures
data is accurate, complete, and fit for performing data analyses
through various testing procedures and data controls which help to
identify business insights fit for purpose for a particular product
set Develops and executes on Enterprise Data Management policies
and standards, works across teams to ensure adherence, serves as a
key point of contact for all topics related to data compliance, and
manages operational elements of the (Enterprise Data Strategy
Governance and Operations (EDSGO) relationship Manages data related
incidents and identifies, communicates, and resolves or escalates
issues as needed. Data inquiries include questions related to data
issues, availability of data, and potential sourcing alternatives
to inform Develops, manages, and executes on controls, ensuring
tracking, monitoring, and resolution of any control breaches with
data platform Partners with Business and Technology functions to
drive the development of business and functional requirements
documents and ensures strategic upstream resolution for data
related incidents Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in
Computer Science, Data Management, Statistics or related fields or
equivalent work experience Intermediate knowledge in SQL and using
tools like TOAD Awareness of AI / Machine learning concepts and
ability to implement such strategies Experience in data analytics
and interpretation of large volumes of data Scripting experience
with any language like Python, Java, VB Desired Qualifications:
Experience in Sanctions / AML processes Data transformation /
formatting experience and able to work with data in different
formats Knowledge of Economic Sanctions programs requirements
Experience in Global Banking & Markets business process Experience
in Sanctions screening applications like Fircosoft Logical thinking
capabilities with a technical mind-set Advanced knowledge in using
Microsoft Excel and MS Access Knowledge in using Microsoft products
Word, Outlook, Power-point and Visio Knowledge of PowerBI /Tableau
Ability to prioritize, use own initiative, make quick decisions, be
flexible and work independently Ability to work remotely, with
teams spread globally, under pressure, meet deadlines and navigate
change Ability to work and interact with people from a diverse
range of backgrounds and opinions Shift: 1st shift (United States
of America) Hours Per Week: 40
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