Global Financial Crimes Specialist – Governance & Reporting

Bank of America; Belfast; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Global Financial Crimes Specialist for its new Belfast office. This role focuses on compliance and operational risk in financial crime investigations. Key responsibilities include supporting regulatory adherence, managing financial crimes investigations, and preparing management reports. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and exceptional skills in monitoring, communication, and risk management. The organization offers extensive benefits including private healthcare and a comprehensive pension plan.

Benefits

Private healthcare for you and your family

Competitive pension plan

20 days of back-up childcare

Flexible benefits options

Access to emotional wellbeing helpline

Use of a flex fund for benefits

Access to gyms and wellbeing Apps

Charity donation matching

Opportunity for community volunteering

Qualifications

• Proven business and functional experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Support execution of money laundering, sanctions, and fraud compliance practices.
• Assist Global Financial Crimes executives with risk management activities.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise and local laws, rules, and regulations.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing

Excellent communication and report-writing

Strong organizational skills

Microsoft Office skills

Regulatory Compliance

Risk Management

Issue Management

Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management

Written Communications

Reporting

Talent Development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Access

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Global Financial Crimes Specialist - Governance & Reporting

Corporate Title: up to Vice President

Location: Belfast

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!

Join Us in Belfast - A City of Opportunity and Innovation

We're thrilled to announce the opening of our new office in Belfast—a vibrant, fast-growing hub for financial services and technology, and a strategic addition to Bank of America's global footprint. This expansion underscores our commitment to investing in talent and driving innovation across the UK and Ireland.

Our new offices at City Quays are in the heart of a city celebrated for its rich history, dynamic culture, and thriving business community. Whether you're local or considering relocation, you'll find a welcoming environment, an excellent quality of life, and the opportunity to help shape the future of banking.

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 America

UK

• 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 interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We monitor the community background and sex of our job applicants and employees in order to demonstrate our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity in employment and to comply with our duties under the Fair Employment & Treatment (NI) Order 1998. We invite you to register your information by completing the following form https://bac.avature.net/belfast

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