Job Description:
Job Title: Delivery Lead - SWIFT Payments Technology
Corporate Title: Up to Vice President
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.
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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:
Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.
Role Description:
Due to an increase in our programme portfolio, we are looking for a Delivery Lead to bolster our Global SWIFT Payments technology team. We are a diverse team made up of members from many different geographical areas, each bringing a diverse skillset. The team is responsible for delivering technology changes in the Global Payments space driven by both business expansion and external mandates. We are looking for an experienced Delivery Lead that is eager to learn about new technologies and drive projects forward.
Responsibilities:
- Work with Key stakeholders to gather business/technology requirements
- Work with technology teams to plan, coordinate, and drive the delivery of defined deliverables for a larger program
- Manage financials and resource planning for a larger program
- Communicates the target outcomes, coordinates delivery, manages risks, ensures compliance to standards, and provides visibility into the health of the program
- Coordinate and facilitate program routines (kick-offs, stakeholder updates, change controls, planned tollgates)
What we are looking for:
- 10+ years experience in project/portfolio delivery in Technology or financial technology industry
- Bachelors degree or higher in engineering, computer science, business, or finance
- Industry certifications in project management or agile methodologies
- Good Microsoft Office skills
- Experience managing program or portfolio financials
- Good leadership skills and decision making abilities
- Good verbal and written communication skills
Skills that will help:
- Business Products & Strategy - Basic awareness of products, services, business flows and strategy.
- Financials & Resource Management - Basic understanding of financial data and the impact that their role has within a team.
- Planning, Execution & Process - Facilitates team planning ceremonies against backlog/prioritized work. Manages risk/dependencies/impediments for one team. Ability to answer teams Agile/waterfall framework questions.
- Promotes Collaboration - Collaborates with own team and across teams. Asks questions to obtain views from others.
- Influence Decisions - Presents their own point of view with a clear rationale, facts and figures. Clearly displays how their proposed solution or course of action is superior to other options by using facts/evidence to support it.
- Achieves Sustainable Results - Tracks the effectiveness of solutions through KPI's. Incorporates technical and financial factors when comparing different approaches to solutions.
Benefits of working at Bank of America:
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- 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 access to school holiday clubs 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.
- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
- 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 program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK's most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.
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.