Job Description:
Job Title: Global Financial Crimes Specialist – Training
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 organisation.
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:
Activities this role performs include, but are not limited to:
Design comprehensive Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Fraud, Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) training modules for employees at all levels, across the GFC Non-US Investigations team.
Work closely with MyLearning and Academy partners to review, design and implement targeted training programmes.
Conduct live and virtual training sessions on AML regulations, financial crime investigations, internal policies, and best practices.
Ensure training aligns with internal compliance frameworks and external regulatory requirements.
Support the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and reviews relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions-owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed.
Assist in the production of independent financial crimes training management reporting.
Assists in the monitoring of changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed
Contribute to Global Financial Crime Non-US Investigations team training plans, execute independent risk monitoring, testing, gap analysis and risk assessments.
Support escalation of financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees.
Assists in the identification, aggregation, reporting, and escalation of the remediation and thematic analysis of Non-US Investigations-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes training programme.
Assists in the review of internal and external procedures, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately.
Required Qualifications:
Demonstrated business and functional experience in AML and fraud.
Degree required: Bachelor’s or equivalent experience
Proven experience within a similar role within the financial services industry and/or government entity
Strong communication, presentation and report writing abilities, including ability to communicate with stakeholders globally.
Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Powerpoint, Word and Access
Confident working within global policies, procedures and risk management guidelines
Desired Qualifications:
Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) (preferred)
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) (preferred)
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.