Abandoned Property Transaction Management Ops Team Lead

Job Description:

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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 the day-to day transaction processing operations function, and ensuring the team executes operations tasks with accuracy, timeliness and quality service. Key responsibilities include employee training, coaching, addressing employee inquiries, escalations, approvals, and team supervision ensuring accurate process execution. Job expectations include maintaining service quality, accuracy and escalating issues to management, as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Manages team workflow across various systems and provides process oversight and direction for accurate and timely completion of deliverables

• Provides day-to-day training and coaching to team while addressing employee inquiries and escalations

• Monitors team service levels, volume, performance metric reporting, escalating concerns where appropriate

• Conducts quality assurance reviews and provides routine supervisory manager approvals

• Researches complex operational and client requests, issues, and escalations to identify root cause and assist with remediation efforts and solutions

• Reviews processes to ensure effectiveness, and recommending process improvement and risk mitigation opportunities to senior management

• Supports risk management and audit processes, including identification of issues, development of mitigation strategies, and exam preparation

Skills:

• Attention to Detail

• Customer and Client Focus

• Oral Communications

• Prioritization

• Problem Solving

• Written Communications

• Account Management

• Analytical Thinking

• Coaching

• Mentoring

• Research

• Result Orientation

Line of Business Job Description:

The Merrill Abandoned Property Team performs critical and time-sensitive Non-Financial Regulatory Reporting (NFRR) processes including, but not limited to, performing abandoned account identification, handling statutory due diligence mailings and Client claims, and completing regulatory escheatment reporting.

This role involves contact with Clients, branch office personnel and external U.S. state/territory unclaimed property employees with a focused goal of reuniting Clients with their assets. The teammate in this role will be expected to cross-train and learn all functions within the team. However, their primary responsibility will be the Due Diligence process which includes oversight of Client call center phone line (inbound and outbound), Client facing communications (emails and letters), and day-to-day processing service levels. This team works closely with Compliance, Enterprise Independent Testing, the Unclaimed Property Escheatment Enterprise Area of Coverage, Client Correspondence Online, and various operations groups.

Additional duties include:

Required Qualifications:

• Must maintain positive and professional attitude in a team-oriented, fast-paced work environment

• Work effectively and efficiently as team lead

• Ability to adapt to a changing environment and handle multiple priorities

• Proficiency with Excel

• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Be able to de-escalate situations at point of call and take ownership of any issues through remediation

• Have ability to effectively service/resolve client inquiries

• Excellent writing and analytical skills

• Demonstrate organizational skills and proven attention to detail

Desired Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree preferred or Industry experience equivalent

• Flexibility to perform well in a changing environment as processes evolve

• Proficient with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, and Excel

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple job-related duties, including day-to-day tasks and project work

• Strong understanding of rules and regulations, policies, and standards​

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40