Job Description:

Job Title: Pre -Assessment Coordinator - Ethical Hacking Team

Corporate Title: AVP

Location: Chester or 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. 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 Overview:

Chester

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.

Dublin

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.

Role Description:

As a Pre -Assessment Coordinator, You’ll Play a vital role in our Cybersecurity Assurance Program. Your mission? Safeguarding our applications from potential threats. In this role you’ll work closely with our pentesting team to plan and coordinate penetration tests. You will act as a liaison between the pentesting team and the client keeping all parties informed about the process, expectations and any findings.

Responsibilities:

Ability to scope any application for any type of ADSF assessment.

• Work closely with application managers and risk partners to gather information necessary for application security assessments for the purposes of scheduling, engaging, follow-up and escalation.

• Data gathering of application requirements (scope approx. 500+) follow up, escalation if required to Team Manager and other Leadership contacts.

• Gathering pre-requisite information, validating the information, facilitating demos of applications in scope for application security assessments with application Managers, and Application Assessor and working with the application team to get the assessors access provisioned.

• Attend and provide bi-weekly status updates to team (management routines). Managing of requests for new assessments (ad-hoc request for application assessments across the enterprise).

• Management of projects related to larger engagements (multiple, simultaneous assessments of application groups)

• Work with line of business partners, information security officers and others to understand technically the business needs as well as addressing any concerns.

What we are looking for:

• Experience in Information Security (application assessments) and a foundational background in IT.

• Be able to communicate and explain technical concepts to Technical and Non-Technical business and application owners.

• Possess and Executive presence with both internal and external stakeholders. Ability to communicate professionally over mail and by phone.

• Excellent project management skills, interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.

• Organisation skills and attention to detail and accuracy with dedicate to superior service.

• Advanced knowledge of MS office applications including Excel, Power Point Access Outlook SharePoint, and Work.

• An excellent presence with both internal and external stakeholders. Exceptional analytical and critical thinking abilities.

• Ability to think strategically and execute against a strategic plan.

•Professionalism, dependability integrity and trustworthiness combined with a cooperative attitude.

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic team environment.

• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to multitask and complete assignments with time constraints and deadlines, Individual with desire to learn and teach others.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in IT. Analytica skills, problem solving/conceptual thinking. Can work with technical and non-technical business owners.

Skills that will help:

• One or more of the following certifications(desirable): CISSP, CJEH, OSCP or qualified work experience

• Extensive experience and very detailed technical knowledge in at least 3 of the following areas: general information security; security engineering; application architecture; authentication and security protocols; applications session management; applied cryptography; common communication protocols; mobile frameworks; single sign-on technologies; exploit automation platforms; RESTful web services.

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 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.