Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Job Description:
Job Title: Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
Corporate Title:  Up to vice President
Location:  Chester

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Location Overview:

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 Cyber Threat Hunting, Intelligence & Defence team within Cyber Threat Defence delivers actionable intelligence to support the Bank's ability to identify, assess, and respond to cyber threats affecting the organisation, customers, and the broader financial sector.

As a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, You will serve as a senior member of the EMEA Cyber Threat Intelligence function, responsible for producing strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence, monitoring emerging cyber threats, and representing the Bank within key intelligence-sharing communities and industry working groups.

This role requires an experienced intelligence professional capable of independently assessing complex cyber threats and geopolitical developments, engaging with external partners across the financial sector, and translating intelligence into actionable outcomes for both technical and executive stakeholders. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable delivering strategic intelligence assessments, supporting operational investigations, and contributing during significant cyber events.

You will be required to work 40 hours per week. Your hours of work will be 7am to 6pm, which includes one hour lunch break. You will be required to work 4 days in succession followed by 3 days off.  Your shift patten will be either Sunday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Saturday.
Your hours of work and shift pattern would rotate on a periodic basis .

Responsibilities:

- You will produce high-quality cyber threat intelligence reporting across strategic, operational, and tactical levels.

- You will monitor and assess threat actors, campaigns, vulnerabilities, supply-chain threats, fraud trends, and geopolitical developments relevant to the financial sector.

- Develop and maintain trusted relationships with external engagement communities including intelligence partners, peer institutions, government organisations, law enforcement, and industry groups supporting the timely exchange of cyber threat intelligence efforts

- Contribute intelligence to sector-wide threat assessments and collaborative industry initiatives.

- Support threat actor tracking, intelligence collection planning, attribution efforts, and intelligence-driven investigations.

- Provide intelligence support during cyber incidents, major security events, and heightened threat conditions.

- Brief technical teams, senior leadership, and business stakeholders on emerging threats and intelligence-driven recommendations.

- Collaborate with Threat Research, Incident Response, Security Operations, Cyber Defence, Vulnerability Management, and other GIS partners to improve threat awareness and defensive outcomes.

- Assist in the development of intelligence requirements, collection strategies, analytical methodologies, and intelligence processes across the CTI function.

What we are looking for:

- Significant experience performing Cyber Threat Intelligence analysis within a financial institution, large enterprise, government, military, or intelligence organisation.

- Deep understanding of cyber threat actor methodologies, tactics, techniques, and procedures.

- Experience conducting strategic intelligence analysis and producing intelligence assessments for executive audiences.

- Knowledge of geopolitical developments and their impact on cyber risk and the financial services sector.

- Experience in analysing threat actor campaigns, vulnerabilities, malware activity, supply-chain compromises, and emerging risks.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex intelligence clearly to varied audiences.

- Experience engaging with external intelligence-sharing communities and industry partners.

- Experience collecting, correlating, analysing, and disseminating intelligence from multiple classified, commercial, and open-source sources.

- Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

- Experience supporting cyber incident response and intelligence-driven investigations.

Skills that will help:

- Experience participating in financial-sector intelligence sharing programmes such as ETIC or equivalent industry forums.

- Knowledge of cyber threat intelligence platforms, intelligence lifecycle methodologies, and structured analytical techniques.

- Familiarity with nation-state threats, cybercrime ecosystems, and emerging technology risks.

- Experience briefing senior executives and presenting intelligence findings to large stakeholder groups.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

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At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.• 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• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 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, cycle to work 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

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, religious or similar philosophical belief, political opinion, 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.