Senior Audit Manager - Climate Risk and Sustainability Disclosures

The Senior Audit Manager - Climate Risk and Sustainability Disclosures at Bank of America in Charlotte, NC, is responsible for auditing Lines of Business, developing audit plans, assessing risks, and producing audit reports. The role emphasizes fostering an inclusive work environment, managing team performance, and maintaining business partner relationships. Bank of America promotes an in-office culture with specific attendance requirements, indicating this is not a remote position.
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 appropriate 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!

Overview

This job is responsible for auditing Lines of Business (LOBs) ranging in scale and scope. Key responsibilities include developing audit plans, assessing issues for impact, assigning severity ratings, producing audit reports, and managing business partner relationships. Job expectations may include evaluating the control environment, fostering an inclusive work environment, and managing development of personnel.

Responsibilities
• Audits Lines of Business (LOBs) ranging in scale and scope and produces audit reports in a timely manner that summarise results of an audit to management
• Develops an audit plan, assesses risks, and provides appropriate coverage for current and/or emerging risks
• Leverages a risk mindset to proactively identify risks, analyse themes, and continually evaluate areas of priority against the company’s risk profile and control environment
• Supports Corporate Audit's mission, goals, and strategies, and drives operational effectiveness while demonstrating a strategic mindset and leading and supporting change
• Leads the design and promotes the use of innovative tools and technological elements to drive continuous coverage of company risks
• Maintains business partner relationships for areas assigned and challenges business management to adopt appropriate policies, procedures, and effective controls designed to mitigate risks
• Manages team performance by training, mentoring, defining development plans for team

Managerial Responsibilities

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. 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, elevate 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 prioritising, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Required Qualifications
• 8 years’ experience in Audit/Risk Management.
• Ability to explain complex processes and concepts.
• Strong organisational, analytical, oral, and written communication skills including ability to effectively present complex topics to management.
• Ability to successfully communicate to influence management and lead change on both strategic and tactical initiatives.
• Understanding of audit practices and methodologies as well as rules for professional and ethical conduct.
• Ability to think critically and apply audit and technical expertise.

Desired Qualifications
• Experience in climate risk management and related regulations.
• Experience in disclosures of sustainable business information (environmental, social, and governance).

Skills
• Audit Planning
• Coaching
• Internal Audit Review
• Issue Management
• Risk Management
• Business Acumen
• Critical Thinking
• Project Management
• Relationship Building
• Written Communications
• Regulatory Relations
• Talent Development

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

Pay Transparency details

US - CT - East Hartford - 101 E River Dr - One Riverview Square (CT2550), US - CT - Stamford - 600 Washington Blvd (CT2561), US - MA - Boston - 100 Federal St - 100 Federal St Lp (MA5100), US - NJ - Pennington - 1500 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 5 (NJ2150)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualised salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set. Discretionary incentive eligible: This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviours, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group, and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry‑leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.