Cyber Crime Senior Analyst

Job Description:

Job Title: Cyber Crime Senior Analyst

Corporate Title:  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.

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:

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:

The Global Information Security (GIS) Cyber Crime Defence team investigates and engages external digital threats that impact the bank’s interests. This includes identifying, investigating, and remediating cybersecurity threats. This role would help lead the Protective Intelligence (PI) team in intelligence gathering, manual scanning for cyber threats, managing vendor relationships, performing takedowns, and creating detailed, executive-level reporting. Additionally, the role will provide strategic white glove response functionality to executives, reacting in real-time to threats as they arise utilizing a follow-the-sun methodology.

Protective Intelligence Analysts (PIR) are expected to operate independently and leverage best-in-class investigation skills across multiple concurrent investigations to reduce risk to bank executives. PIR Specialists are expected to apply existing risk frameworks with minimal supervision, leveraging multiple toolsets and vendors to achieve desired end state are required. PIR Specialists are also expected to identify and implement opportunities to improve existing toolsets or expand vendor capabilities to meet changing threat landscape. Succinct communications, timely investigations and outcomes, and responsible stewardship is expected.

Required skills:

• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to pivot program based on strategic threat landscape analysis
• Should be comfortable working with incomplete facts, be able to quickly rationalize and drive clarity, translate to actionable tasks, and demonstrate tenacity by working assigned tasks through to completion.
• Understanding of the process to contact hosting providers to remove domains that being used to commit fraud or conducts social engineering attacks including legal parameters and investigative mindset
• Proficiency with executive-level tracking and reporting, including expertise in Jira and Excel
• Must be comfortable in delivering messages to a wide spectrum of individuals having varying degrees of technical understanding
• Confident and capable written and oral presentation skills, including proficiency in PowerPoint
• Strong project management skills
• Completing written reports in compliance with current reporting procedures and policies.
• Document each stage of the investigation and maintain a focus on case logs and details.
• Ability to work independently with little oversight managing multiple investigations simultaneously
• Ability to analyse investigations and data to find patterns and make risk based decisions to improve the processes and program
• Must have strong leadership skills and qualities which enable you to work with peers and various levels of management
• Demonstrated vendor management skills
• A broad knowledge of computer networking, log analysis, information security principles, and adversarial tools and techniques
• Strong analytical skills/problem solving/conceptual thinking
• Able to identify, analyse and address cyber security issues or threats, including emerging tactics or techniques
• Capability to convey a cybersecurity issue or threat to an external firm in a way that demonstrates how it violates the Terms of Service or Community Standards
• Ability to resolve issues with minimal negative impact and risk to the organization

Desired skills:

•           Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field

•           Open source Intelligence skills (OSINT)

•           Experience in the remediation of information security risks/vulnerabilities

•           Experience with network monitoring and intrusion detection systems

•           Ability to work with technical and non-technical individuals

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.