Global Payments Solutions Full-Time Analyst Program
What we’re looking for:
- Final year Undergraduate/Master’s degree student with outstanding academic achievement
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Effective verbal and written communication
- Comfortable with change and adjust to changing demands and requirements
- A strong team player and client focus
- Demonstrates energy and initiative
- Positive approach and open to learning new skills
- Creative thinking and problem-solving skills
- Fluency in English is essential, appropriate Asian language skills are also essential for some roles and countries
Why Us?
Global Payments Solutions (GPS) is a core business for Bank of America’s global franchise. The GPS business provides global working capital solutions including liquidity management, payments and receipts, trade and supply chain finance, foreign exchange and commercial card services to three million small businesses, thousands of middle market companies, and to multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments around the world.
Since 1947, Bank of America has been offering working capital solutions in Asia Pacific tailored to meet the growing needs of our clients with diverse geographic presence. GPS Analysts work with experienced professionals to deliver the breadth of GPS solutions and services to our clients based in the Asia Pacific region.
As an Analyst you will shadow GPS professionals, or work independently taking ownership of key projects to support strategic business initiatives. Likewise, there is an expectation that Analysts will use their own initiatives and explore ideas to add value to the GPS business.
The program has been carefully structured to ensure exposure to all areas of the GPS business. A challenging program with the right support model in place to ensure coaching and support allowing you to succeed in your role as well as your self-development, growing your abilities through on-the-job learning, preparing you for your permanent placement in the GPS business. The emphasis is on guidance and support for each individual, to promote independence and professional growth and cultivate the unique value that you will bring to impact the GPS business. We’ll support and reward you on the basis of your individual performance.
What you’ll do:
- Take ownership of rotation projects, understand the requirements of the project and practice time management, project planning and execution skills to complete your project within the timeframe
- Proactively network internally to learn more about the business as well as report back on business initiatives worked on
- Integrate as a team member and communicate with the team on project milestones
- Conduct comprehensive and in-depth company and industry research
- Conduct analysis and manage reporting and tracking
- Create various internal documents, materials, reports and data inventories as required
- Prepare presentations and other materials to support delivery of proposals and pitches to clients/prospective clients to drive new business
- Play an active part in organizing and attending client meetings and events to learn more about client activity, following up on any action points where required
- Support the team to solve client needs and generate revenue for the bank
- Learn from, and work with, teams across the business, including senior managers within your group, experts in other areas of the firm and colleagues from around the globe
Program Overview
The Global Payments Solutions Analyst Program is an 18 month in-country program designed to provide Analysts with an opportunity to work alongside an experienced GPS team to prepare for a career in GPS. You will work closely with sales teams who cover clients from Corporates and Financial Institutions and product teams who cover payments & receipts, liquidity management, FX, commercial card and trade products. Upon completion of the program, you will be placed into one of these teams on a permanent basis.
For most countries in Asia Pacific, training begins when you will join newly-hired analysts from around the world for an intensive and highly structured few weeks to learn about our global company, its culture and all the relevant tools, techniques and working practices you’ll need to succeed. You'll also receive grounding in your chosen business area, as you develop your professional skills and team-working capabilities in the GPS Analyst Program.
On return to your local office, you will be given responsibilities immediately and will be expected to make a significant contribution to the team.
About Us
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!
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 success is shared between us, our clients and our communities. Our regional footprint covers 12 currencies, more than a dozen languages and five time zones, placing us firmly among the region’s leading financial services companies.
