Bank of America Strategy & Management (SBV) Full Time Analyst 2027 Godwilling In JESUS NAME I PRAY AMEN MARK 9 26

Tell me about yourself

I’m a rising senior at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying Finance & Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.

Growing up with a family with an international background, I always wondered why businesses are so different are between the developing and developed world. 

My fascination with this drew me into learning more about the capital markets and the transfer of capital to enterprises that create value.

And that led to me interning for a private equity firm my sophomore year and more so recently this summer at Wintrust Bank, where I had the opportunity to better understand the environment of consumers which drives business in the first place by drawing on the retail banking and digital marketing side of things.

On the flipside my academic journey has been full of experiential learning projects for real businesses, and I’ve grown to love consulting, as I just enjoy connecting the dots of moving pieces with data.

I’m hoping to dig more into the banking side of consulting, whether it’s bank product innovation, business relationship management, or AI systems implementation, I’m interested in seeing how the gears of banks work and improving them.

Why Bank of America?

I’m interested in working at Bank of America because of its attitude towards business and its internal culture.

What would you like the Power to do? Is more than just a question its a mentality at Bank of America

Bank of America has 8 lines of business and within each line there is a diversity in their clients’s needs. While most clients are businesses that face different circumstances, the bank has been able to serve all stakeholders both employees and clients, in an exceptionally way.

Having had the opportunity to speak with over 6 current analysts and associates in the SBV program, I know what I’m getting into and the culture at BoFa. To make diamonds you need pressure. And there’s a culture that seeks out excellence from employees but also gives them the resources to do that at Bank of America.

Having a huge passion for business and systems improvement, I feel that Bank of America’s values line up directly with my own.

REALIZE THE POWER OF PEOPLE

ACT RESPONSIBLY

and DELIVER TOGETHER are things I have emulated in the teams I’ve been in and so I feel Bank of America already lines up most with me.

How do you handle competing deadlines?

I first communicate with the people who’ve given me the deadlines, and reach out to determine my priorities.

After determining the order of importance I create a day to day schedule with weekly internal goals. As I get tasks done, I continue to update my managers to let them where I am on the project or task.

…..This is summer there was a particular week where I had to publish a marketing campaign for a non-profit conference I’m involved with, while also facing competing deadlines for a commercial credit presentation and investment pitch for the bank.

Once I was aware of the competing deadlines, I informed my managers of my competiting deadlines and create an internal schedule with mini-task deadlines for myself to make sure I was on pace to completing the priority tasks, which were the conference marketing and investment pitch

Major event impacting business banking and consumer banking

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How do you keep up with the news

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Tell us about a time where you had a to make a difficult decision (say the situation, choices, and outcomes)/ Tell me about a time you were analytical or used data to make a decision?

So last year my friend and I cofounded agricultural group where we grew plantain on 2 acres of land.

Agriculture has 5 phases: sowing, fertilizing, weeding, harvesting, and storage

So some time after fertilization our crop scientist suggested to us to fertilize the plantain even more.

However, we had used all our allocated fertilization budget and the remaining budget was for harvesting and storage.

Having bootstrapped as much as I could already, we were left between using money from the harvesting and storage or continuing with the harvest with the current amount of fertilization. My friend wanted to increase fertilization but I disagreed.

After speaking with more seasoned farmers, and looking at the previous years difference between selling at harvest vs later storage sell date, we ended up taking from our storage budget and increasing our fertilization as we reasoned larger yields would be more worth while and we’d take the risk in the spot market with large plantain.

Our decision ended up paying off, as our plantain was signficantly heavier in kilograms and we ended up selling in a favourable market.

Tell us about a time you had to take initiative / an accomplishment demonstrating your personal initiative and drive to push beyond what is required

During the COVID-19 Pandemic my sophomore year of high school my parents informed me they were not going to financially support my college education, as my older brother had gotten a full-scholarship they said I could as well.

Now the pressure was on, but step by step, by going to tutoring sessions, reaching out to scholarship recepients and asking them for advise, I was able to get a high enough GPA, SAT, and write good essays. I ended up receiving a full-ride scholarship at University of Illinois

Tell me about a time you worked on a team

I have the Job at Bank of America as a Strategy & Management Analyst

In Jesus Name God willing Amen.

Mark 9:25 I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief!

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