Control Management- Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial analysis. You have found the right team.

As a Control Management Associate within the Control Management team, you will perform ongoing analysis of the business’ risk and control environment to identify significant gaps and weaknesses, ensuring controls are properly designed.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure that controls are properly designed, operating effectively, and essential to a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols.
• Determine the applicability of individual regulations to the Markets businesses, and subsequently map these legal obligations and the full underlying legal text to procedures or other supporting documentation, and related CORE Business Processes.
• Map execution activities by working extensively with a diverse set of global stakeholders, including Legal, Compliance, Business Control Management, and other stakeholders. The team’s activities cover 24 jurisdictions (8 languages), with further scope expansion expected.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on OLO processes and tools, collaborating with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance, Business partners, and others to ensure a clear and consistent interpretation of applicable obligations.
• Develop and maintain reference data to facilitate obligation mapping, e.g., matrices of business activities, LEs, procedures, and control framework by product and country.
• Compile procedure gap analysis data and make recommendations to senior Business Control Managers, among others, on how these gaps should be addressed.
Respond to and resolve items identified by Quality Assurance and audit processes.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills :

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

• Experience in business controls, operational risk, Compliance, Legal, Audit or similar function with coverage of Markets Sales / Trading businesses
  

• Detail oriented, with a highly disciplined approach to process and quality control
• Strong business analysis skills to enable efficient, accurate and objective decision making
• Excellent personnel and organizational management skills, ability to work under pressure and handle high volume of throughput without compromising quality

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• A level of familiarity with, and interest in, J.P. Morgan’s Markets products and businesses
• Understanding of the control framework for Markets businesses would be beneficial
• Comfortable with and adept at reading and interpreting legal text as a layperson (note: formal legal qualifications are not required)
• Minimum 7 years of experience in financial services industry with background in controls, audit, quality assurance, operational risk management, or compliance preferred; or equivalent subject matter expertise in a relevant business related function/operation