Business Support Analyst jobs at Bank Of America in United Kingdom

Corporate Title: Director

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

Role Description:

GRQE are looking for a high-quality person to help drive forward the book of work and to directly support the team. They will work closely with the tech lead of the team to deliver successful outcomes across a broad range of responsibilities, and to drive change. There is a need to drive forward opportunities to create efficiencies through automation and to shape how the team conducts all of Change Management responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Drive forward Business, Product and Project Management capabilities across GRQE

• Support Tech Lead in guiding the team, particularly timely and effective delivery of the book of work, removing roadblocks for the team and make the team operate more efficiently

• Support COO in driving out future strategy for GRQE

• Responsible for driving forwards multiple concurrent projects, particularly the implementation of models onto the organisation’s target-state infrastructure and adoption of modular and reusable components, ensuring adherence to team business practices as well as Enterprise project governance and Change Management standards.

• Support effective delivery through good project management practices and provision of project management expertise to modellers and test owners.

• Provide business support to GRQE COO as necessary – this may include capacity planning, reports and returns, hiring activities, managing routines, etc.

• Drive Operational Excellence across GRQE through leading identification and implementation of change activities.

• Explore opportunities to automate project management and business management processes and reporting.

• Explore ways to optimize the team operating model for project management and business management practices.

What we are looking for:

• Considerable years of relevant experience in Business or Product or Project Management

• Good coaching skills - Ability to foster good collaboration among team members and help solve problems.

• Experience in financial services or a related field.

• Experience of business management and project management in a fast-paced organisation

• Good influencing skills

• Good evaluative, problem solving and organizational skills.

• Demonstrate mental curiosity to drive forward opportunities for improvement.

• ‘Control’ oriented experience and mindset

• Working knowledge of risk management

Skills that will help:

• Experience of Quantitative Engineering

• Experience of model development and the Model development lifecycle

• Excellent proficiency and good experience with JIRA (Horizon tools)

• Programming skills including Python, SQL – or the desire to learn these skills.

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 access to school holiday clubs 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 emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

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

• 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 program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’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.

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

Responsibilities:

• You will work with internal stakeholders to document regulatory requirements and analyse data fields
• You will liaise with technology and the business to document business scenarios and define data acceptance criteria
• You will engage with testing and quality assurance processes to confirm accuracy of reporting and ensure project development is aligned to requirements
• You will provide business analysis and project management support on regulatory transaction reporting implementation projects
• You will lead projects and/or remediation requirement documentation efforts based on identified gaps and controls needed for sustained performance
• You will develop, maintain, and report on an overall integrated delivery plan, raising any risks, developing a mitigation plan, and escalating issues appropriately to respective stakeholders

What we are looking for:

• Business Analysis and/or Project Management experience including analysis techniques and project management methodologies.
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written.
• Experience managing stakeholders of all levels & being able to articulate large scale information into executive summaries
• Experience in identifying process improvements and seeing projects through to the end

Skills that will help (optional):

• You will have knowledge of financial regulatory transaction reporting requirements including MiFID/MiFIR (TR and PTT), EMIR, SFTR, CFTC, SEC reporting
• A proven track record of liaising with technology teams will be a plus
• Being able to work unsupervised, to tight deadlines would be a plus
• Experience working with Microsoft Office and JIRA would be an advantage
• Knowledge of structured project management methods such as PRINCE2 or Microsoft Solutions Framework
• Experience implementing process improvement would be a plus.

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

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

Corporate Title: Vice President

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

Role Description:

As a Senior Quantitative Finance Analyst – Quantitative Developer, your primary focus will be developing, maintaining and testing quantitative risk models, used by Global Markets. You should expect to contribute to the three main focuses of the team:

• Process Automation: improving efficiency and reducing operational risk

• Full Revaluation VaR: providing support and in-depth analysis for the Full Revaluation VaR and FRTB IMA programmes

• Strategic Risk Platform: advising and collaborating with teams across the wider organisation to centralise and better manage risk models and data

The team focuses on developing and testing new models/ systems so a pro-active, innovative approach is key. Further, you will often be asked to bring your technical expertise to other projects, requiring strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Quantitative Finance Analyst – Quantitative Developer, your responsibilities within the team will be to:

• Perform detailed design and lead development of a market risk system focused on model analysis

• Work at the interface of Technology and Risk Quants

• Collaborate with a broad number of stakeholders across the Bank

• Produce production quality code to develop and maintain quantitative risk models

• Clearly communicate outcomes to stakeholders and senior management

• Improve efficiency and reduce operational risk across projects

• Take ownership of systems and changes

• Deliver in-line with the team’s priorities, GRA’s strategy and stakeholder’s requirements.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s/MSc degree or equivalent with a quantitative emphasis in areas such as mathematics, engineering, or computer science

• Previous experience in derivatives pricing and/or Market Risk

• Tracking records and ability to design, lead and develop complex systems

• Excellent programming ability in Python including good understanding of object oriented programming principles, coding standards, test driven development, etc

• Prior financial experience, preferably within a large investment bank

• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment

• Self-motivated, pro-active and an able to run with issues

• Strong attention to detail, intellectual curiosity and commitment to excellence.

• A team player who can work with colleagues with different experience and backgrounds

Skills that will help:

• Python programming experience at a large, multi-national bank, using platforms such as Quartz, Athena, SecDb, etc.

• Experience with large dataset tools incl. relational databases, SQL and Tableau

• Experience developing, testing or maintaining Risk models such as VaR, FRTB or CCAR

• Familiarity with pricing models

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 access to school holiday clubs 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 emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

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

• 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 program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’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.

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

Job Description:

Job Title:Credit Risk Officer

Analyst/Associate

Role Description

GCIB Credit is responsible for analysing and delivering credit underwriting debt financing solutions and derivative strategies for medium and large corporate clients of GCIB & Global Markets (GM). GCIB includes Corporate Banking and Investment Banking and GM includes Sales & Trading. The group provides services to middle-market and large corporations, government entities and institutional investors. Services including mergers and acquisition advice, equity and debt capital raising, corporate lending, sales and trading in fixed income, commodities, currency and equities, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management.

Responsibilities

• Perform financial and credit analysis, risk rating analysis ensuring adherence to prevailing credit policy and procedures for an assigned portfolio.
• Independently assess credit worthiness, perform intensive qualitative and quantitative due diligence of prospective borrowers and/or trading counterparties and establish appropriate terms and conditions to mitigate risk.
• Structuring transactions, underwriting and negotiating credit documentation designed to meet both client and investor needs including credit agreements, amendments, derivative documentation.
• Ensuring granularity of the portfolio with specific reference to targets for net country/credit capital, legally binding commitments, total exposure and asset quality.
• Establish appropriate internal risk ratings for clients and implement accurate adjustments throughout the client’s credit life cycle.
• Ensuring that the portfolio and credit management process are at all times rated "satisfactory" by internal auditors, the Credit Review group and external Regulators.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the product spectrum and portfolio at the client, industry, and macro level to assess risk and craft value added solutions balancing risk.
• Develop, maintain, and manage internal relationships with business partners including Corporate and Investment Bankers, Sales & Trading, Risk Management, Syndications, and Legal.
• Participate in strategic projects to support business goals.
• Providing provide appropriate coaching and development to junior teammates.

What we are looking for

• BA/BSc degree (or equivalent); Finance, Accounting or Economics would be beneficial.
• Credit risk experience at a major international financial institution, analysing, assessing companies and knowledge of EMEA and specific industry sectors, structuring transactions and documentation.
• Credit skills, risk judgment and broader risk awareness and understanding of the wider business, market and regulatory environment in which the bank operates, and how that impacts client and portfolio’s credit profile and ability to defend rigorously a fact-based point of view.
• Sound product/technical, documentation and process knowledge across lending, trade finance and derivative (FX, rates, commodities and equities) products.
• Acting as an agent of change/improvement, influencing corporate policy/procedure and projecting a positive strategic vision.
• Commercial mindset to support value added discussions with effective interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills, and attention to detail and accuracy.
• Fluency with use of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel; including ability to prepare and/or review company specific financial models in Excel.
• Strong organisational skills with ability to prioritise and work under pressure, drive deal selection, negotiate solutions, strong transaction management process, and proactively manage credit risks.
• Understanding of credit risk sensitivities in the portfolio and risk drivers of the exposures.
• Keen interest in finance, macroeconomic and geopolitical issues.
• Fluency in English required. Additionally, other European language skills highly beneficial.

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

Job Description:

Job Title:Financial Analyst - Global Liquidity Management

: Assistant Vice President

The Team:

• The Global Liquidity Management (GLM) team is responsible for the timely preparation of liquidity reporting across the organisation with teams based across global locations

• The 18 member Chester team has historically been specifically focused on all EMEA based reporting with requirements to regulators in the UK, Ireland and across the EU

• This exciting new opportunity to onboard more global focused work will allow for new and exciting work to come into Chester and will complement the existing responsibilities

• In GLM, associates have exposure to all the various products in which the bank does business. The team works closely with a number of other areas within the Chief Finance Office division, including Data Management, Line of Business finance as well as the Financial Controller team in order to develop a good working knowledge of the business operations as well as the various financial reporting capabilities and requirements

• The team also partners with the global teams to work on the continued enhancement of the available technologies as well as sharing best practices on efficiency and operational excellence

Responsibilities:

• Perform reporting, monitoring, and analytics in relation to liquidity submissions and management metrics

• Understand liquidity reporting rules and data requirements

• Enhance processes to streamline reporting and build out additional analytical capabilities

• Perform system testing and understand impacts to end to end liquidity processes

• Ensure documentation and reporting controls are up to date, managing operational risk in the process

• Work on ad-hoc projects for senior management and/or regulators

What we are looking for:

• Good academic profile with a 2:1 degree or equivalent

• Excellent Excel skills including data manipulation

• Analytical experience & attention to detail

• Good understanding of complex financial products

• Experience in preparing presentations for senior management and regulators

• Experience partnering with various levels of the organization, problem solver

• Intellectual curiosity, organized and able to work on multiple tasks with limited supervision

Preferred:

• Experience developing, implementing and maintaining reporting in a consistent manner

• Experience in Corporate Treasury, ideally with a financial institution

• Experience in Global Markets and/or Line of Business Experience

• Experience in regulatory reporting

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 access to school holiday clubs 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 emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

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

• 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 program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’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.

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

Job Description:

Chester - UK

Job Title:Regulatory Reporting Operations Analyst

Officer

Role Description:

This job is responsible for providing standard research, reporting and analytical support for the delivery of regulatory reporting. Key responsibilities include end-to-end reporting support for cross border payments, electronic transactions, sales, trading and underwriting business for securities, foreign exchange, fixed income, exchange traded derivatives and over-the-counter derivatives across multiple lines of business. Job expectations include following the established procedures under general supervision and oversight, and assisting less experienced teammates.

Responsibilities:

• Delivers standard regulatory reports to regulatory agencies in line with expectations on completeness, accuracy, and timeliness
• Executes control practices, including compliance with all regulatory and policy requirements, including data quality standards
• Identifies, tracks, and remediates errors and breaches, data issues and control enhancements that impact the respective reports
• Partners with upstream process owners and data providers to improve data quality of regulatory reports

What we are looking for:

• Good computer skills including Microsoft Office Applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with multiple teams
• Able to work independently and within a team structure
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a face paced environment and meet deadlines
• Exceptional analytical and problem resolution skills

Corporate Title: Up to Assistant Vice President

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

Responsibilities:

• You will complete Documentation Reviews for all Liquidity requests.
• You will provide structured feedback and supporting information to associates in real-time.
• You will support the reviews of errors, to identify key themes and develop coaching and training sessions to improve performance.
• You will partner with colleagues across the department to implement required changes to procedures and processes to mitigate risk.

What we are looking for:

• You will be a highly organised individual who can manage multiple requests.
• You will have an excellent attention to detail.
• You will have the ability to communicate effectively and deliver constructive feedback.
• You will have experience working with and understating multiple documentation types.

UK

• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.
• 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.
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs 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, cycle to work etc.
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
• 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 program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’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.

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