Junior Lawyer/Paralegal (Corporate Capacity, Account Opening/Maintenance) – Global Wealth Management Operations recruitment
Overview
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services.
The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 59 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 6,100 retail banking offices, nearly 18,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with nearly 29 million active users. Following the acquisition of Merrill Lynch on January 1, 2009, Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world.
Bank of America offers industry-leading support to more than 4 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients in more than 150 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Job Description
Operations Department of the GWIM group is seeking a qualified lawyer (newly qualified or above) or paralegal with corporate and/or finance experience. The candidate would mainly be responsible for corporate capacity and authority review for account opening and account maintenance, and advising on deceased accounts.
Responsibilities
The candidate is expected to:
- Support the legal review of account opening, in particular review corporate documents and advise on capacity and authority.
- Support account maintenance where legal review of corporate documents is required for changes of account structure or corporate capacity or authority.
- Review external counsel opinions on capacity and authority.
- Advise on deceased account matters.
- Liaise with Business partners to ensure the timely execution and completion of account opening and maintenance and deceased account matters
Requirements
A qualified lawyer or Paralegal with at least 1 year experience with corporate and/or finance experience.