Human Resources Consultant

Job Description:

Job Title: Human Resources Consultant

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Belfast

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.

• Performance & Reward: drive performance management, year-end processes, compensation, and promotion activity. Provide guidance on HR policies and procedures, ensuring consistency and appropriate risk management.
• Staffing & Talent Acquisition: partner with our Talent Acquisition partners and the business to deliver lateral hiring plans. Support candidate assessments, offer approvals and onboarding activity.
• Leadership Development: partner with L&D to support organisational effectiveness and leadership capability. Contribute to organisational design activity.
• Learning: partner with Learning to identify skills gaps and implement solutions across both technical and behavioural capability. Facilitate HR-led learning or education sessions where required.
• Employee Relations: partner with Employee Relations to proactively identify and manage risks, ensuring outcomes protect the firm's franchise.
• Employee Engagement & Culture: analyse employee engagement survey results and partner with leaders on tracking action plans. Play an active role in shaping a positive, high-performance culture within Belfast.
• HR data: partner with HR data and reporting team to deliver workforce insights including headcount, attrition, mobility.
• Projects: Support with the delivery of cross-Line of Business HR initiatives with focus on growth and site maturity.

• Prior HR experience supporting a Financial Services business
• Solid knowledge across the core HR disciplines (performance, talent acquisition, ER, learning, reward).
• Experience working in a fast-paced, operational environment; Operations experience is advantageous.
• Strong judgement, resilience and ability to manage ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Proven ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multiple teams in a matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical capability, including interpreting data and identifying trends.
• Proactive, commercial and business-focused mindset, with the confidence to challenge where appropriate.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Adaptable, flexible and comfortable supporting change in an evolving organisation.

• Private healthcare for you and your family
• 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 virtual tutoring 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
• Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, and virtual GP services
• Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources relating to men's health, women's health, fertility, menopause and pregnancy & parenthood
• Access to a range of gyms, exercise classes and wellbeing Apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area