Global Compliance and Operational Risk Full Time

Help take risk out of our way.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Final year Undergraduate/Master’s students with outstanding academic achievement
- Major in Compliance or related field (e.g. Law) preferred, but students from other streams with a solid understanding of or keen interest in the financial industry are welcome to apply
- Strong and effective verbal and written communication in English. Knowledge of business Mandarin and/or Japanese would be considered added advantages
- Being comfortable with change and adjust to dynamically changing demands and requirements

**Why Us?**

The APAC Compliance & Operational Risk (COR) team is at the core of the Bank’s cultural values and a key component of our risk management discipline. The COR team mitigates against Compliance risk - the risk of legal or regulatory sanctions, material financial loss or damage to the reputation of the company arising from the failure of the company to comply with the requirements of jurisdictional laws, rules, regulations (LRRs); **_and_** Operational risk - the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or external events. The Bank’s COR Program is the comprehensive set of systematic practices instituted by the company to ensure that applicable LRR requirements are being met and operational risk is being appropriately managed.

The APAC COR team performs two primary roles: 1) being trusted partners to the front line, helping interpret written laws, rules and regulations (LRR) and regulatory expectations, and 2) performing the “check and challenge” on the front line practices and processes to ensure the Bank is fully compliant at all times. The COR team is critical since it helps front line staff perform their role of generating business through a much wider lens that encompasses the Bank’s risk appetite, leverages global best practices and focuses on compliant growth while doing it independently from the front lines. We are the “second pair of eyes” in sharing the core responsibility of mitigating regulatory, reputational, and other risks.

**What you’ll do**:

- Work with and learn from the HK Country COR team on matters and regulatory issues relevant to the entities based in Hong Kong from a Country perspective.
- Work with and learn from one or more regional Front Line Unit (FLU) Compliance teams - for example, Research, Investment Banking, Equity, FICC, etc - on matters specific to these line/s of business, not only from a Country perspective, but also from an Asia point of view.
- Work with and learn from one or more Enterprise Compliance teams based in HK - for example, Registrations & Licensing, Associate Investment Management etc - on matters that are relevant to the whole Enterprise, cutting across lines of business both regionally, and in some instances, globally.
- You will conduct data analysis, project management, policy analysis and research in an effort to build a strong GCOR holistic foundation & understanding. As part of this role, there will be constant engagement with multiple parties at the Bank, including front-line leaders, regulators, Legal counterparts, control functions etc.

**Program Overview**

As a full-time analyst, you will begin your career at Bank of America with an extensive training program. The program is a combination of classroom instruction, e-learning modules, case studies, and presentations. Throughout the program, you will have ample opportunities to work closely with professionals and peers throughout our organization. This is a great opportunity to build a network of colleagues from across the company that will prove to be a tremendous resource to you throughout your career.

This is a two-year rotational program within the APAC COR function, involving Country, Line-of-Business, and Enterprise COR teams. Upon completion of the program, you will be placed into one of these teams on a permanent basis. The aim of this program is to provide a solid understanding of the core roles and responsibilities within the Global Risk Management function, while developing a broad range of skills applicable to COR.

**About Bank of America**:
Our purpose as a firm is to make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. Across the world, we partner with leading corporate and institutional investors through our offices in more than 35 countries. In the U.S. alone, we serve almost all of the Fortune 500 companies and approximately 67 million consumer and small-business clients. We provide a full suite of financial products and services, from banking and investments to asset and risk management. We cover a broad range of asset classes, making us a global leader in corporate and investment banking, sales and trading.

**Connecting Asia Pacific to the World**

Our Asia Pacific team is spread across 19 cities in 12 markets. We are focused on connecting Asia to the world and the world to Asia, using our global expertise to ensure