Markets Legal and Regulatory Change Management - Vice President

Job Description

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

As a Control Manager in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm. You will be supporting the global Markets business across Sales, Trading and Research and be responsible for the completion of LRCM-related BAU tasks, including mapping legal obligations to the policies, procedures and other evidence that demonstrates how Markets meets these legal requirements.

Mapping Execution activities will involve 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.

• Lead, motivate, and manage a team to achieve performance targets. Provide guidance and support to team members, fostering a positive work environment.
• Monitor team performance and provide regular feedback. Conduct performance reviews and identify areas for improvement.
• Identify training needs and provide opportunities for professional development. Mentor and coach team members to enhance their skills.
• Determine the applicability of individual regulations to the Markets businesses, mapping legal obligations and underlying legal text to procedures or supporting documentation, and related CORE Business Processes.
• 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, such as 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 on addressing these gaps.
• Respond to and resolve items identified by Quality Assurance and audit processes.
• Assess the impact of regulatory changes, with a focus on LATAM.
• Produce MIS / Reporting / Governance material. Run the weekly LRCM Triage process for Markets.

• A level of familiarity with, and interest in, J.P. Morgan's Markets products and businesses
• Experience in business controls, operational risk, Compliance, Legal, Audit or similar function with coverage of Markets Sales / Trading businesses
• Good project management skills and ability to instill structure, process and accountability to meet aggressive weekly production delivery targets, whilst maintaining quality standards.
• 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
• Ability to partner closely with related functions to ensure a coordinated and effective program
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• 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)