Bank of America

Senior AML Advisor - Operations Readiness

Bromley Full time

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior AML Advisor - Operations Readiness

Corporate Title: Up to Vice President

Location: Bromley

Company Overview:

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.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Location:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you will find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

Job Description:

This job is responsible for providing analytical support in a Global Markets Operations function for one or more operations product areas. Key responsibilities include analyzing and resolving highly complex operations problems and initiatives requiring exceptional handling and coordination of multiple operational and/or product specialists to resolve. Job expectations include managing projects and the introduction of new initiatives, systems, products, services, and processes and coordinating necessary expertise across multiple operations functions and products.

Line of Business Job Description:

Global Banking Global Markets (GBGM) AML Onboarding is responsible for onboarding of new clients to ensure that Bank of America meets both the regulatory and internal AML/KYC requirements.  The GBGM AML Onboarding team is responsible for reviewing and approving account opening documentation globally. The team has a vacancy in the Business Enablement team for an individual who has experience in operational readiness and dealing with change for a complex operations function.

The role includes supporting the GB GM AML Onboarding team to manage and execute Operational Readiness activities, manage Law/Rule/Reg change, procedure, process and technology change and act as AML Onboarding SME in the AMRS and LatAm regions.

Responsibilities:

  • Partners with Sales Associates, Client Outreach teams, GFC/RO’s, Compliance and various other internal operations groups
  • Analyzes and resolves highly complex operational problems
  • Supports ad-hoc projects for new processes or industry initiatives
  • Law/Rule/Reg change implementation management
  • Procedure writing
  • Resource design and production
  • Process design
  • People/process/tech change management
  • CDD/KYC Onboarding SME/consultant
  • Training design and facilitation
  • Write and manage communications
  • Manage people, process and technology change, including audit issues
  • Work with your peers to understand the interdependencies and impacts horizontally across the portfolio of change and act accordingly
  • Understand the processes of and advocate for the AML Onboarding organization
  • Manage socialization across impacted teams and work collaboratively with stakeholders
  • Provide executive summaries on project statuses to senior leadership

Required skills:

  • Experience in an AML/KYC related role
  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
  • Demonstrated knowledge of AML/KYC requirements and operational processes
  • Strong influencing and executive presentation skills. Must be comfortable and effective interacting at all levels of the organization
  • Strong organizational skills
  • A flexible, team-spirited approach with the ability to work independently
  • Ability to work accurately to tight deadlines in a demanding environment
  • Attention to detail
  • Proficiency MS Office products

Additional skills:

  • Attention to Detail
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data Collection and Entry
  • Recording/Organizing Information
  • Research
  • Fraud Management
  • Interpret Relevant Laws, Rules, and Regulations
  • Problem Solving
  • Quality Assurance
  • Risk Management
  • Adaptability
  • Customer and Client Focus
  • Prioritization
  • Result Orientation
  • Written Communications

Benefits of working at Bank of America

UK

Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

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, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services

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

Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership programme and receive discounted entry to some of the UK and Ireland’s most iconic cultural institutions

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 are 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 opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependents, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.