Global Financial Crimes Support Manager in Belfast

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Bank of America believes in working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We are devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone, investing in teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support wellbeing.

This job is responsible for supporting the Company’s Anti-Money Laundering Program with a focus on financial crime investigations. Key responsibilities include assisting financial crime investigations management and oversight of investigative efforts related to fraud, money laundering, or terrorist financing.

Responsibilities:

• Manages performance support functions for the Non-US Financial Crimes Investigation team, including Associate development and training, reporting and metrics, talent planning, and inventory management.
• Leads and directs the work of others and ensures staffing levels and capacity are appropriate to meet production requirements.
• Oversees maintenance of Non-US financial crimes investigations processes, ensuring risks are managed through robust controls and metrics.
• Drives change to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements.
• Manages the production of independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders.
• Oversees the Non-US financial crimes investigations case inventory, ensuring adherence to enterprise and local Laws, Rules, and Regulations.
• Manages requests for information concerning Non-US financial crimes investigations from internal and external Bank of America stakeholders as required.
• Continuous focus on operational excellence of the end-to-end processes of existing programs.
• Manages Reporting and analysis of program data and overall performance with teams, vendors, and partners.
• Oversight of investigations training program inclusive of new hire and continuing education.

Skills:

• Excellent communication and report-writing abilities.
• Strong organisational skills, time management, and attention to detail.
• Coaching and External Resource Management.
• Regulatory Compliance and Issue Management.
• Confident working within global policies, procedures and risk management guidelines.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in governance, specifically routines and dashboards.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Powerpoint, Word and Access.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated business and functional experience.
• Degree required: Bachelor’s or equivalent experience.
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (preferred).
• Proven experience within a similar role from the financial services industry and/or government entity.
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise competing demands.
• Ability to be flexible in support of the maturing organisation with a global scope and mindset.

Benefits Of Working At Bank Of America:

• Private healthcare for you and your family.
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover.
• 20 days of back-up childcare including virtual tutoring and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits.
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, and virtual GP services.
• Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area.

Bank of America Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment.