October 17, 2024

Bank of America

Luxembourg

FULL TIME

Global Financial Crimes Specialist

Job Description:
Job Title: Global Financial Crimes Specialist
Corporate Title: Up to Vice President
Location: Luxembourg

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!

The Team:

You will be working in a team that supports overall MLRO accountabilities across our global financial crimes assurance activities. This includes non-financial regulatory reporting, Sanctions Alert Review/Sanctions filings, review escalated client matters, regulatory Engagement and Client Reviews/MLRO Approvals. You will be joining an established team that offers ongoing training and development in a dynamic work environment.

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:

Supports 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.
Assists in the production of independent financial crimes risk management reporting to Global Compliance & Operational Risk (GC&OR) Senior Leaders and FLU/CF Senior Leaders
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.
Contributes to risk coverage plans, executes independent risk monitoring, testing, and risk assessments,
Supports with escalating 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 FLU/CF-owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes,
Assists in the review of internal and external operational loss events, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately,
Execute and Provide Support for Jurisdictional and Global Program Elements.
Execute process with quality, within control, and within process timeliness standards; actively managing process.
Queue management and process reporting.
Support MLRO and regional teams for multi-jurisdictional case reviews in a timely manner; effectively escalate as required.
Monitoring and Testing: Maintain close working partnerships with EIT and business; drive schedule execution against agreed plan; partner with executive process leads; review/calibrate results; move beyond output testing and ensure process and control understanding before, during and as results are concluded; communicate effectively with FLU teams in partnership with MLRO/Risk Management executives.
Supporting MLRO to delivering financial crimes training materials based on global and jurisdictional requirements.
Preparing governance materials for key Governance, Senior Management Routines and Regulatory discussion.
Coordinate; and support MLROs during formal exams, audits, questionnaires, compliance reports,
Supporting Issue management oversight for GFC owned and AML flagged issue concerns.
Supporting filing or oversight of Non-Financial Regulatory Reporting
Support MLRO Managed processes including records and list management and NFRR requirements.
Procedures Management: Upgrade desk top procedures, user tools, cross-training, and business continuity management
Operational Excellence and Process Simplification: Assess manual activities for automation and process improvement

What we are looking for:

Demonstrable years of anti-money laundering/financial crimes experience in a similar or related role in a financial institution, legal or consultancy firm or with a regulatory or government authority.
Excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing.
Ability to influence with impact, engaging across various levels of management, including very senior management and board levels and with regulators.
Sound risk management skills and an ability to apply discernment, take decisions when required and to escalate concerns when necessary.
Excellent relationship management skills.
Critical thinker, who can make decisions in a rapidly changing environment.
Ability to self-identify priorities, deliver to deadlines, and handle challenging demands and partners.
Experience of policies, procedures and guidelines management.
Great teammate, willing to interact and discuss issues in a team environment and take pride in your work.
Able to deliver a flexible and solutions driven perspective, to solve problems and to seek answers to complex issues.
The ability to synthesize laws, rules, and regulations into practice.
The ability to coach, develop and support teammates.

Skills/Qualifications that will help:

Certification: ACAMS – Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.
Monitoring, Surveillance, and Testing experience.
Regulatory compliance and risk management experience.

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/sex, 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, responsibility for dependents, 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.