Program Manager-Finance Solutions (Subsidiary Governance Manager-CFO)

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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

The Legal Entity Executive Group (LEEG), within the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) organization, is seeking a senior leader to support governance and oversight of Bank of America’s global legal entity structure. LEEG drives the strategy, governance, and simplification of the firm’s ~400 subsidiaries and branches, ensuring they effectively support business operations while meeting regulatory expectations. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain enterprise-wide visibility into how the bank is structured, governed, and managed. The individual will build strong partnerships across Lines of Business and key corporate functions—including Finance, Treasury, Risk, and Legal—while developing deep expertise in regulatory frameworks, corporate governance, and operational excellence. This role provides enterprise-level exposure to the structure and governance of a complex, global financial institution, opportunities to influence and strengthen governance practices across the firm, a broad network of senior stakeholders across multiple disciplines and geographies, development of strong business, financial, and regulatory acumen and experience in driving process improvement and operational excellence initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Subsidiary Governance – Enterprise Policy Program, which establishes minimum standards for governance, controls, reporting, and risk management across all subsidiaries
• Maintain and enhance Policy content to ensure clarity, relevance, and alignment with evolving regulatory expectations and business needs
• Oversee a monitoring and testing program to assess compliance with Policy requirements and drive issue identification and remediation
• Partner with stakeholders globally to ensure consistent implementation and adherence to governance standards
• Manage and enhance legal entity corporate data/information, supporting effective oversight of the full lifecycle of Bank of America’s legal entities (e.g., formation, changes, and dissolution)
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, simplify governance practices, and enhance operational efficiency
• Requires an understanding of Finance, Accounting, Governance and Process Management

Team Lead Responsibilities:
This position has responsibilities for overseeing associates as a Team lead. 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: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating teamwork.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years in the financial industry with experience in governance, policy, controls, process management, finance, treasury, accounting, risk, compliance and/or audit
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables and deadlines
• Significant experience with MS Office, including Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with Senior Management
• Strong collaboration, organizational skills and project management

Desired Qualifications:

• Exposure to process design and automation, incl. use of tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, Workiva and Artificial Intelligence (Microsoft 365 Copilot and its agents (Designer, Researcher, Analyst)
• Understanding of intercompany / legal entity transactions (for example, creation, merger, elimination and movement of capital between subsidiaries) 
• Familiarity with financial statements
• Familiarity with the regulatory environment of financial services industry

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Influence
• Presentation Skills
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Analytics
• Consulting
• Data Mining
• Data Visualization
• Innovative Thinking
• Process Management
• Project Management

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40