Job Description:

Job Title: GMO Transformation Strategy

Corporate Title: VP

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: Dublin

Find us at our Central Park office, Leopardstown, where you will find our state-of-the-art facilities based in Dublin’s premium business park. With an onsite gym, staff restaurant and coffee shop, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. There are also a range of travel options available to staff, including the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

Role Description:

The team is responsible for leading cross functional/large scale process reviews across global markets, implementing process improvements, influencing strategic change, educating the organization on available tools, and championing a culture of change.

Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities, define, and execute solutions to improve Global Markets Operations process gaps
• Drive collaborative efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve an evolving client base
• Partner with Line Operations and Technology to deliver strategic initiatives
• Utilize analytics to understand trends and opportunities
• Lead discussions with teams, identifying performance patterns and opportunities for improvement
• Develop and leverage mechanisms to assess operational efficiency and performance
• Maximise industry tooling to empower teams, provide guidance and help teams achieve process efficiencies
• Be a culture carrier to inculcate an environment of continuous improvement
• Develop partnerships across global market operations

What we are looking for:

• Understanding of financial markets and end to end operational flows within global markets
• Experience with Business Intelligence, Data visualization, RPA (Robotics Process Automation) and digital transformation is an advantage (i.e Alteryx, Tableau)
• Knowledge of process improvement tools and programs such as Lean Six Sigma
• Understanding of Machine Learning and AI Concepts
• Prior experience of vendor/technology evaluation and selection
• Ability to face off with senior operations and tech heads at a strategic level while understanding the detail
• Process simplification, process design and operational excellence mindset
• Interest in innovation, automation, and vendor tooling
• Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised. Candidate will be able to manage own time and know when to escalate

Additional Skills:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills - proactively builds trusted relationships with key partners
• Self-motivated with a problem-solving mindset
• Quantitative, analytical, and critical thinker with a risk and control mindset
• Proactive and committed to challenging the status quo and promoting positive change
• Ability to liaise and work with all levels of the organisation
• Confident to conduct presentations and influence the rationale for change

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 because of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare including virtual tutoring and 20 days of adult-care per annum
• 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, specified illness cover etc
• Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
• Access to free counselling through an Employee Assistance Programme and virtual GP services
• Opportunity to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to join 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

Good conduct and sound judgment are 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 opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, 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