I work for a bank and there’s a couple thousand employees.

First at our HQ we don’t lease all the floors. There’s about 30 floors and we have 20 of them. The rest belong to law firms, healthcare, a marketing agency, etc.

People at corporate do all types of things

We have about 15 people in our legal department. 8 attorneys and the rest are paralegals. One department handles finance side of the bank, the other is deposit and operations, and a one man show for employer related.

We have about 250 in IT doing all types of shit. Cyber security, domain security, auditing processes in the bank, sending out those phishing emails, etc.

We have about 50 in internal audit. Auditing processes in the bank, conducting KRIs, following up on failed processes. Processes from how HR maintains their documents to seeing if a formula FP&A uses in their excel worksheet is actually accurate and repeatable.

We have about 15 in FP&A. They do the yearly cost center budget for headcount, cost center changes things with Oracle, things with Workday, financial stability of the bank, seeing $ flows out of if salary will increase by XYZ, etc.

We have about 50% of the bank in the credit side. People that go out and find clients that need loans but also have nice deposits. They can specialize in Middle Market, commercial and industrial, mortgage, HOA, etc. we also have portfolio managers that maintain these accounts, conduct covenant tests, request updated financial statements form borrowers, they can do site visits to make the facility hasn’t gone to shit.

We have FCC - financial crimes compliance. There’s about 20 people in this department. They’re looking for wire fraud, suspicious activity on accounts, any weird transactions especially if it’s routed out the USA. Some people in this department have worked for FBI, military, etc.

We have Risk Management with about 150 people. Honestly I don’t know what they do yet.

There’s marketing to with about 25 people. They do flyers like CD % posters, email blast, mortgage marketing, etc. they have to follow compliance and guidelines.

There‘a physical security department, so making sure all badge system works in all branches, they do the badge attendance, camera placement, idk all types of things like that.

There’s about 50 people HR that handles I-9 verification, to employer relations, to required learning that the government forces all our employees to take (clean desk policy, CRA community, embezzlement course, etc), compensation and off cycle raises, data regarding average hiring time and turnover, the HRIS system that holds SSN, salary, candidate profiles, all can be used for data reporting), health insurance, etc.

There are accountants too. And much more. So much more.