Senior Business Control Specialist (Risk Function)

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Business Control Specialist (Risk Function) (Open)

Corporate Title: Vice President

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.  We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.
 
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Overview:

Our Central Park office in Leopardstown, boasts modern facilities based in Dublin’s premium business park. With an onsite gym and staff restaurant, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. Travel options include the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park. We also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

Job Description:
The GMO Risk Function provides a centralized and consistent approach to risk management across Global Markets Operations. It is structured into two complementary components, Horizontal Risk Functions and Vertical Risk Functions. You will deliver a centralized view of GMO risk across the organisation. Lead centralized resiliency planning, regulatory and audit oversight. You will promote consistency in risk governance and control practices. As a senior business control specialist you will strengthen the overall risk and control environment by supporting key business control activities.
 

Responsibilities:

• Risk Governance & Reporting: Develop and deliver consistent risk reporting and governance routines. Prepare materials for internal and external risk forums, including business control committees.
• Internal & External Response Management: Lead Operating Posture Monitoring (OPM) routines. Provide an aggregated view of incidents and issues affecting GMO processes, including technology disruptions, workforce challenges, market events, and volume spikes.
• - Regulatory & Policy Oversight: Coordinate GMO’s adherence to laws, rules, regulations (LRR), and internal policy changes. Lead initiatives to demonstrate compliance and readiness for regulatory reviews.
• Lead Strategic BAU Reporting Oversight, Overseeing the end-to-end production of critical materials for internal and external forums where GMO is a key stakeholder. Ensure content is aligned with strategic priorities and delivered with precision and consistency.
• Executive-Level Risk & Performance Reporting. Delivering high-impact, data-driven insights through concise risk and performance materials. Prepare executive briefing notes and presentations to support GMO Leadership in decision-making and stakeholder engagement.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to fulfill reporting and analytical requests (e.g., GMO Risk Data, Exceptions, Single Process Inventory, Metrics) from key stakeholders including GMO LOBs, Internal Audit, GCOR, and Global Markets leadership.

Skills:

• Exceptional Attention to Detail & Initiative. Demonstrates a high level of accuracy and precision in deliverables. Proactively drives work forward in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Strategic Thought Leadership. Capable of independently designing, developing, and executing risk routines and reporting frameworks from concept to completion. Brings innovative thinking to enhance risk oversight. Including communication skills.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to build strong partnerships across Global ORC, FLUs, and enterprise teams including Technology, Global Operations, and Global Markets. Navigates matrixed environments with influence and diplomacy.

Additional skills:
Tableau Expertise: Experience in publishing, scheduling, and refreshing reports on Tableau Server. Familiar with multiple BI implementations, including the design of intuitive dashboards and ad-hoc reporting solutions.

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 sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants 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.