Change Analyst – Currency, Commodity & Derivative Operations

Job Description:

Job Title: Change Analyst – Currency, Commodity & Derivative Operations

Corporate Title: Officer

Location: Chester

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: Chester

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.

Role Description:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an associate to join the Global Markets Core Operations Change team in the Chester campus, as we continue our commitment to build a Centre of Excellence. The team supports the Global Markets Core Operations teams who manage Commodity, OTC Derivatives and FX Confirmations and Settlements functions.

This is a chance to join a dynamic, influential team with a background of delivering high profile, value-add solutions to an exceptional standard. The role offers the opportunity for an associate to grow their understanding of the wider Global Markets Core Operations group and broaden their business partner network as they engage on a varied range of objectives that the team are exposed to. It offers an excellent opportunity to develop a wide range of technical and soft skills whilst raising your profile across multiple areas.

Responsibilities Include:

• Applying an entrepreneurial & innovative mindset and setting the standard as a culture carrier for the organisation
• Actively seeking new opportunities for change/improvements by analysing, challenging, and remediating processes, controls and behaviours relating to the FDCO Confirmations and Settlement processes
• Driving market-wide projects which have captured the focus of senior management
• Actively influencing changes in client behaviour leading to a reduction in risk and cost and increase in efficiency
• Providing functional support to users across multiple asset classes, helping set best practices and reinforce process standards

What we are looking for:

• Loves to turn original ideas into something tangible; flourishes in seeing and acting on possibilities
• Likes to figure out how technology can be used to make life better; curious about how things work
• Sees data & numbers as the best, and sometimes, only way to figure out business solutions
• Enjoys developing theories, thinking & debating abstract ideas
• Thrives on dealing with people and enabling them to produce results
• Flourishes in communication, whether written or spoken; loves to express ideas & to persuade others

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 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.