Job Description:

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:

Be part of something special at Bank of America Chester. Part of a leading global financial institution, we are looking for high potential individuals to join us in driving our people forward. Bank of America Chester is an exciting, diverse workplace where we are committed to delivering a great client experience to the businesses and individuals who call Chester home. Join our team today and find a rewarding, global career.

Job Description:

This EMEA Recruiter position will sit in the Global Human Resources organisation within Global Talent Acquisition. It will provide strategic staffing support for Bank of America's Global Risk & Compliance function, as well as supporting hiring within other enterprise control functions as needed.

This position will support hiring for Global Risk positions from entry-to-senior levels across multiple locations within EMEA. This is a high impact role supporting a fast-paced and critical organization within the bank. The successful candidate must possess mature and sound judgment, integrity, and self-confidence with a desire to succeed and a passion for providing a high standard of service and adding value to the business areas that they support.

This job is responsible for managing the end-to-end hiring process which includes understanding business needs, developing and executing a sourcing strategy, screening/interviewing candidates, selling the bank to prospective candidates, managing hiring processes and controls and candidate offer management. Key responsibilities include partnering with senior leaders within the business and across Human Resources (HR) to achieve hiring objectives for assigned business units.

Whilst being aligned to the Risk & Compliance organisation primarily, this role will require someone to operate within a team and to support hiring across other lines of business as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts intake sessions with hiring managers to understand the business needs and manages requisition workbench within the applicant tracking system.
• Understands the talent pool in which they are operating, advising business stakeholders on the market and availability of talent/how to attract the right talent.
• Creates a pipeline of candidates with desired skills by developing and executing a sourcing strategy, cold calling, and candidate assessment through in-depth phone screens/interviews to identify, attract, and recruit suitable talent.
• Coordinates the interview process with hiring managers and business leaders and provides feedback from screening interviews to prepare hiring managers.
• Ensures compliance with all legal aspects of recruiting and candidate selection.
• Helps with the closing of hires, partnering with Compensation and HR teams to ensure offers are appropriate and attractive.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven track record of professional, full-cycle recruiting experience in a matrixed organisation.
• Strong track record of sourcing, engaging and hiring talent across Risk, Compliance and other control functions of a large, complex organisation
• Proven experience in sourcing talent in competitive markets.
• Must have client management experience, with the ability to influence and consult at up to senior executive.
• Experience developing and executing internal and external sourcing strategies.
• Experience leading candidate selection and assessment through interviews, line of business engagement, skills assessments and offer negotiations.
• Ability and desire to stay abreast of market conditions and use data to inform decisions.
• Excellent candidate management capabilities, including managing complex salary negotiations from pre-qualifying to “close.”
• Strong process and compliance mindset with keen attention to detail, ensuring all control steps of hiring process are executed flawlessly and in line with process/compliance requirements.
• A team player who operates effectively within a group and demonstrates flexibility to jump in and support teammates/other business areas as demand requires.
• Exceptional communications skills and ability to navigate a large, complex, global organisation, managing multiple stakeholders across business areas and across geographies. Sound judgement on when to engage, escalate and manage expectations.

Additional Skills:

• Active Listening
• Candidate Screening
• Hiring and Onboarding
• Workforce Opportunity Management
• Adaptability
• Attention to Detail
• Executive Presence
• Relationship Building
• Ability to prioritise

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 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 dependents, 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.