Control Management Senior Associate

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Job Description

Are you ready to be at the heart of risk management and compliance at JP Morgan Chase? As a Control Management Associate, you'll play a crucial role in maintaining a robust risk and control environment. Our team thrives on innovation, challenging norms, and striving for excellence.

As a Control Management Senior Associate in the Risk Management and Compliance team, you will perform ongoing analysis of the business's risk and control environment to identify significant gaps and weaknesses. You'll ensure that controls are properly designed and implemented, partnering with compliance and operational risk officers, program managers, and other control managers to develop a consistent risk management approach.

Job responsibilities

• Perform ongoing monitoring and assessment of compliance and operational risk.
• Design controls in partnership with business executives and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Manage end-to-end issue and action plan management, identifying root causes and developing solutions.
• Identify meaningful metrics to report on the health of the risk and control environment.
• Collaborate with functional support groups such as Audit, Technology, Finance, and Legal.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for relevant projects outside the Control Management organization.
• Escalate breaches/issues based on key reporting indicators and manage control committees and forums.
• Stay informed on European and UK regulations, including CRR (Capital Requirements Regulation), CRD IV (Capital Requirements Directive IV), IFR (Investment Firms Regulation), IFD (Investment Firms Directive), UK CRR (UK Capital Requirements Regulation), and IFPR (Investment Firms Prudential Regime), and ensure compliance with EBA (European Banking Authority) and PRA (Prudential Regulation Authority) guidelines.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's degree.
• Significant experience in financial services, risk management, compliance, or legal.
• High degree of initiative and ability to work under pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare executive-level communications.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills; able to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong partnerships.
• Intellectual curiosity with a proven ability to learn quickly.
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AML/BSA expertise and/or certifications (e.g., CAMS, CAML, CAMCP, CFCS).
• Expertise in Capital Adequacy or Stress Testing (e.g., ICAAP).
• Technical skills in data analysis, quantitative modeling, and emerging technologies.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as COREP, ICARA, and Pillar 3 disclosures.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Control Management maintains a strong and consistent control environment through a joint accountability model that aligns managers with each function and region to mitigate operational risk. The team focuses on four areas: Control Design & Expertise, Risks & Controls Identification/Assessment, Issues & Control Deficiencies and Control Governance & Reporting.