Job Description:
Job Title: Business Support Manager, Global Markets COO
Corporate Title: Director
Location: London
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. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.
Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing, and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
Role Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen with the newly formed EMEA Global Markets COO team which is responsible for executing and delivering our strategy for Global Markets businesses in EMEA as well as end to-end solutions to regulatory engagement.
The team:
Team members act as project managers and thought leaders for large strategic and regulatory projects that impact EMEA GM. These can involve all parts of GM including Sales, Trading, as well as related teams in Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations and Technology, both in the region and more globally. These projects are typically high profile and involve a high degree of strategic problem solving to ensure regulatory and/or commercial viability.
Responsibilities:
As part of the EMEA GM COO team, this role will cover strategic and regulatory initiatives, which may include:
Experience in a trading related function, familiarity with booking systems and risk engines
Project management, both on an end-to-end basis, and/or discrete sub-components
Ensure appropriate control frameworks are established by working with relevant teams, support, and control partners
Running or supporting governance routines to facilitate key deliverables
Supporting or reviewing underlying legal/regulatory requirements with key stakeholders to determine business impact and appropriate response
Preparedness to challenge interpretations to ensure commercial and regulatory considerations are balanced
Collaborating with Business, Compliance and Legal teams to design and deliver training on key regulations / strategic projects
Delivering process walkthroughs, and appropriate ‘audit trail’ on project work
Support or lead on key regional and global initiatives to ensure consistency and to identify/resolve any overlaps or conflicting guidance by business/jurisdiction
What We Are Looking For:
Ability to think strategically and join the dots across regions and businesses
Experience of Project Management and knowledge of how programs run
Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex information
Ability to face off to senior stakeholders both internal and external
Experience of working with technical teams and translating technical concepts to business audiences
Critical thinking/problem solving skills
Excellent attention to detail
Ability to work well in collaborative team environment, but also independently run initiatives
Excellent time management skills and ability to manage multiple competing/concurrent activities.
High proficiency in data aggregation, integration, and analysis
Skills That Will Help
Familiarity with Global Markets businesses (Fixed Income Currency and Commodities, Equities, Prime Brokerage, Futures & Options, etc...)
Familiarity with legal documents, legal language and regulatory speak
High proficiency in Excel, Word, and Power Point
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
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