BNY Mellon

As a leading global financial services company, BNY Mellon actively recruits from the military community, recognising the high-quality talent and transferable skills veterans offer. With around 40 self-identified veterans among its 6,000 UK staff, BNY Mellon collaborates closely with CTP, FEC and FFJ to promote roles. Referrals are encouraged from veterans' networks.

Veterans bring valuable leadership, management, communication, project management, cyber security, risk management and other expertise. Their values align closely with BNY Mellon's inclusive culture. Successful veteran hires have created further appetite to recruit service leavers across diverse functions like HR, risk, operations and learning development.

Roles are assessed for suitability, but BNY Mellon often finds veterans’ generalist experience meets hiring expectations. Direct recruitment into relationship management, resiliency, incident management and more evidences this. The recent global Head of Operations hire was a veteran.

Flexible working is offered, typically 3 office days each week. This appeals to service leavers, especially in the North West growth area. Reservists receive 10 extra leave days for training, with full deployment support. Development opportunities include the Veterans ERG, VETNET, offering exclusive leadership programmes.

The Returning Military internship programme, running 2012-2019, demonstrated BNY Mellon's commitment to recruiting service leavers, veterans, reservists and spouses. Its redesign and 2023 relaunch, plus Gold ERS award, further highlight the company’s focus on military talent.