Global Financial Crimes Investigations Manager

Bank of America; Dublin; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare for you and family

Competitive pension plan

Group life assurance

Back-up childcare and adult care

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Bank of America in Dublin seeks a Global Financial Crimes Manager (Vice President) to lead investigations into fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing, ensuring timely regulatory reporting and robust controls. You will manage a team of investigators across jurisdictions, collaborate with law enforcement and regulators, and drive remediation plans and risk-mitigating initiatives.

This role offers a dynamic, inclusive work environment with competitive benefits and opportunities to impact

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

Responsibilities

• Oversees investigative efforts, reviewing and approving cases and ensuring timely, accurate regulatory reporting.
• Provides oversight of a team of Investigators across multiple jurisdictions and legal entities.
• Ensures Suspicious Activity Reports are completed timely and accurately for regulators and law enforcement.
• Reviews facts of the investigation and escalates risk to senior stakeholders.
• Leads or contributes to the financial crimes program including policy management and risk assessments.
• Develops remediation plans to strengthen controls and ensures implementation.

Skills

Investigation Mgmt

Risk Management

Regulatory Compliance

Written Communications

Analytical skills

Coaching

External Resources

Issue Management

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title: Global Financial Crimes Manager

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Dublin

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 Overview:

Overlooking the spectacular Iveagh Gardens with access to all amenities in the beating heart of central Dublin is our Park Place office. Travel options include the LUAS, Dublin Bus networks as well as the Dublin Bikes station, positioned just outside our front doors. As part of our commitment to supporting staff travel to and from work in the most sustainable way possible, we also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package which means getting to work has never been easier.

Job Description:

• The GFC Investigations Manager ensures significant issues and financial crimes trends related to fraud, money laundering, or terrorist financing are effectively communicated and acted upon.

• The GFC Investigations Manager may also work closely with law enforcement, regulatory agencies and industry counterparts to proactively share intelligence, best practices, etc. Additional responsibilities for this role include capacity planning, providing leadership direction, attracting, assessing, developing, motivating and retaining a successful team.

• The GFC Investigations Manager ensures consistent quality of activities, processes and outputs by reinforcing effective review practices across the team. Activities this role performs include, but are not limited to:

• Oversees investigative efforts, reviewing and approving cases and ensuring the delivery of timely and accurate regulatory reporting

• Provides oversight of a team of Investigators or activities performing end-to-end investigations of financial crimes activities across multiple jurisdictions and legal entities.

• Ensures that the completion of Suspicious Activity Reports is conducted in a timely and accurate manner for submission to regulators and/or law enforcement, while providing review and oversight

• Reviews facts of the investigation, and escalates risk to senior stakeholders and partners with Front Line Units to resolve

• Leads quality control functions, training, communications, guidance, monitoring scenario development/enhancement input and testing, or law enforcement liaison responsibilities in an investigative support role

• Evaluates internal controls to ensure they are working effectively by identifying weaknesses or gaps

• Leads or contributes to the execution of the financial crimes program, including but not limited to regulatory change, financial crimes policies and procedures management, risk assessments, issue management as well as any global or regional driven initiatives and projects

• Oversees or assists in the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately.

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company D&I goals.

• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.

• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.

• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, elevate and debate issues.

• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.

• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.

• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assess talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.

• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Skills:

• Coaching

• External Resource Management

• Investigation Management, including ability to manage complex cases and work under pressure.

• Regulatory Compliance

• Issue Management

• Confident working within global policies, procedures and risk management guidelines

• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management

• Risk Management

• Strategy Planning and Development

• Written Communications

• Excellent analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills.

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

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

Benefits of working at Bank of America (Ireland):

• 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 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.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan

• Ability to donate to charities of your choice and the bank will match your contribution

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of Ireland’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

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 gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, membership of the Traveller community, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, civil status, socio-economic background, family status or 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.