Global Financial Crimes Specialist – Governance & Reporting

About Bank of America in Belfast

Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, powered by approximately 213,000 talented employees worldwide. Our new Belfast facility will strengthen our business continuity planning and risk management capabilities while reinforcing the expertise and value delivered across our global teams. We’re committed to creating up to 1,000 new roles, starting with positions in Global Anti-Money Laundering Operations and Global Financial Crimes Compliance. These teams will focus on critical areas such as client due diligence, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance support—key functions that safeguard the integrity of the international financial system.

Role Description

This job is responsible for supporting the execution of substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include assisting Global Financial Crimes executives and managers with activities that support the identification, escalation and timely mitigation of compliance and operational risks in alignment with the Compliance and Operational Risk Management (CORM) Program, the Financial Crimes and Global Compliance - Enterprise Policies and the Enterprise Fraud Risk Management Standards.

Responsibilities

Assists with maintenance of Non-US financial crimes investigations processes, ensuring risks are managed through robust controls and metrics which provide robust monitoring of performance.

Drives change to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed

Assists with the production of independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders

Supports the Non-US financial crimes investigations case inventory, ensuring adherence to enterprise and local Laws, Rules, and Regulations

Contributes to change through governance routines, escalating to management/board level committees as appropriate

Assists in the identification, aggregation, reporting, and escalation of the remediation and thematic analysis of FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes

Facilitates 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

Supports the development, preparation, analysis, and monitoring of key metrics to ensure effective performance measurement and operational oversight, including developing go-to-green remediation plans.

Provides oversight and prepares management reports to track inventory aging, productivity and capacity planning, including building dashboards, monitoring performance trends, escalating threshold breaches and remediation plan.

Supports governance and oversight routines, including risk escalation, contributing to audits and regulatory exam preparations, and collaboration with stakeholders to address control issues.

May have SPOC responsibilities.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing

Excellent communication and report-writing abilities, including ability to communicate with stakeholders globally

Strong organizational skills, time management, and attention to detail

Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Powerpoint, Word and Access

Regulatory Compliance

Risk Management

Issue Management

Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management

Written Communications

Reporting

Talent Development

Required Qualifications

Proven business and functional experience

Degree required: Bachelor’s or equivalent experience

Desired Qualifications

Financial Services and/or related government entity

Benefits of working at Bank of AmericaUK

Private healthcare for you and your family

Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons

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 to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc

Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits

Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, and virtual GP services

Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources relating to men’s health, women’s health, fertility, menopause and pregnancy & parenthood

Access to a range of gyms, exercise classes and wellbeing Apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm

Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution

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 in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religious or similar philosophical belief, political opinion, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for