Securities Services - Cash & Liquidity Product Development - Associate

Job Description

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team in a fast paced and challenging area This is a unique opportunity for you to work in our team to partner with the Business to provide a comprehensive view.

Based in Mumbai, you'll lead strategic projects from India, support our global team, and have end-to-end ownership of understanding client and stakeholder requirements, developing industry/product knowledge, and defining the target end state for our Cash & Liquidity capabilities.

Your role will necessitate close collaboration with product management on strategic re-platforming programs, implementing client-requested modifications, and delivering other strategic outcomes. You will have comprehensive ownership, collaborating closely with all business stakeholders including technology, Operations, and the testing department.

Job Responsibilities :

• Support the Cash & Liquidity Product strategic deliveries planned and subsequent roadmaps, with particular focus on the management and development of core cash lifecycle events and the translation of these into balance and transaction recordkeeping and reporting.
• Ensure ongoing alignment with J.P. Morgan Payments strategic transformation journey for cash and liquidity.
• Develop expertise for different types of cash and liquidity transactions and be able to link this to business activities, system flows and future state target operating models.
• Own and maintain product development team artefacts such as Confluence, program and milestone delivery management, and business requirements documentation.
• Participate in the governance of the testing cycle prior to implementation.
• Collaborate with key stakeholder groups (Product Managers, client-facing teams, publishers and consumers of cash and liquidity transactions and data, technology, testing, Program Management Office teams, amongst others) to understand end to end lifecycle including upstream and downstream system integration.
• Identify and implement process improvements.
• Manage effective working group meetings across Product, Operations and Technology to deliver the cash and liquidity strategy and design systemic architecture to deliver leading cash solutions for clients.
• Prioritize and schedule work, understand / evaluate the relative importance of different pieces of work, manage dependencies across streams, and co-ordinate the deliveries in the overall functional on-boarding.
• Deliver timely against the project objectives
• program definition, planning and execution
• and hold others to account for their components of delivery.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills :

• Direct experience of working within the Global Custody business with knowledge of products in Securities Services such as FX, Lending, Transfer agency, Asset servicing and others
• Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills are required withability to see the big picture across lines of business, as well as being able to step in to understand the detail to help resolve issues as and when required.
• Strong program management skills, must be organized and able to lead, influence and drive the project plan.
• Strong collaboration skills, ability to work across teams/ stakeholders will be important.
• Excellent written and oral communication, clarity of thought and the ability to express oneself clearly.
• Self-motivated, quick learner, being the focal point of a virtual project team, comfortable with responsibility.
• Broad business understanding, with ability to capture end-to-end business flow and progressively deepen subject matter expertise, identifying impact and dependencies up and down stream.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills :

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience with a sound academic record. Experience of working with the product development lifecycle in cash, and a strong track record of delivering change with basic project management skills would be desirable.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and other advanced tools such as Tableau/Alteryx/Signavio will be preferred.
• Experience with system, process or data design, and Target Operating Models will be preferred.