Job Description:

Job Title: Regulatory Reporting Project Manager

Corporate Title: Up to Vice President

Location: Bromley

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 Overview:

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:

The Project Management function supports the Non-financial Regulatory Reporting, Tax and Credit Reporting Operations portfolio of change by partnering with functional stakeholders and technology groups to prioritize and implement changes driven by business, legal, regulatory, compliance or market requirements. The function is seeking to recruit a Project Manager to support the Non-Financial Regulatory Reporting (NFRR) Change Management program, which aims to deliver a centralized report preparation capability focused on reducing risk, improving the accuracy and completeness of NFRR reporting and adhering to data policies & standards.

Responsibilities:

• Assists with defining program controls, processes, procedures, reporting cadence, decision governance structures, and ways of working with key stakeholders.
• Partners closely with project sponsors, cross-functional teams, and assigned project managers to develop the scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new change initiatives.
• Supports the execution of defined tasks through tracking of program milestones and their statuses, developing program plans, and measuring progress against ongoing key performance indicators.
• Analyses, evaluates, and overcomes program risks and produces program reports for managers and stakeholders.
• Identifies key requirements for cross-functional teams and external vendors to perform in alignment with the program objectives.
• Works with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department, leading them to negotiate decision making for efficient and effective resolution.
• Meets with stakeholders to provide transparency into project issues and decisions on services, builds positive relationships, asks questions, and uses tools to uncover root causes to challenges, identify opportunities, and make recommendations.

What we are looking for:

• You will have proven experience of project management skills, using structured methods whilst delivering projects to plan and on budget.
• You will be highly organized and effectively prioritize and balance multiple efforts.
• You will have knowledge of Operations processing & regulatory requirements.
• You will show the ability to assess an ill-defined problem and propose the tasks & deliverables that will be necessary to achieve the desired outcome.
• You will have proven experience of managing and communicating with stakeholders at different levels.
• You will be proficient with MS products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Visio.

Skills that will help (optional):

• Global Banking / Markets Operations experience – ideally with knowledge of NFRR or similar regulatory mandates would be advantageous.
• Proficiency in process design / mapping would be advantageous.
• Working knowledge of Agile methods and tools would be advantageous.
• Previous experience working collaboratively among diverse viewpoints to determine the best path forward, to better serve an evolving client base would be advantageous.
• Showing the ability to continually learn and serve our clients better would be an advantage.
• Commitment to challenging the status quo and promoting positive change, utilising new thoughts and ideas would be an advantage.

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

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, 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.