Strategy & Controls - Associate

JPMorganChase•Newark, NJ

About The Position

Joining the Corporate Treasury Middle Office team (CTMO) Strategy and Controls team you will be responsible for designing, implementing and managing a comprehensive control environment, through building sustainable operating models, assessing control frameworks, and collaborating with stakeholders including risk, audit, lines of business, policy, and strategy teams. Treasury/Chief Investment Office (TCIO) sits at the very center of the firm and directly influences the composition of the firm’s balance sheet and the activities of its four main LOBs: Asset Management (AM), Commercial Banking (CB), Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) and Consumer & Community Banking (CCB). TCIO is responsible for firmwide asset and liability management for JPMorgan Chase with a $4 trillion balance sheet. As a Risk Reporting Associate on the CTMO Strategy and Controls team, you will be responsible for partnering with Corporate Treasury, JPMC core lines of business (LOBs) and Risk Oversight to produce key reports and metrics for regulators and senior leadership to measure and validate JPMC’s liquidity and structural interest rate risk positions. You will also be responsible for overseeing the operating model supporting the sourcing and flow of data from LOB systems of record to ensure data integrity through variance and trend analysis and reconciliations. Management of change to the operating model, system architecture, and interest rate risk models where the team’s functions are dependent will also be in your prevue.

Requirements

5+ years experience in project management related roles
Bachelor’s degree in liberal arts or a quantitative field, or relevant experience
Strong independent analysis and research skills with limited oversight
Excels in critical thinking, investigative problem-solving and autonomous decision-making
Excellent writing and communication skills, including the ability to understand and distill information from multiple sources into concise messaging for senior management
Proficiency in organizing complex information strategically with expertise in Excel, Lucid, and PowerPoint techniques
Experience in project management and delivering of key work streams and tasks
Collaboration skills to effectively engage with diverse teams and management levels
Strong time management, planning, and organizational skills, with the ability to multitask, in order to handle a variety of different responsibilities at the same time and bring tasks to closure
Strong analytical skills including proficiency in Excel.
Knowledge of or willingness to learn Microsoft Office software (Teams, Sharepoint etc.) and Atlassian product suite (Confluence, JIRA etc.)

Nice To Haves

Understanding of interest rate risk principals, funds transfer pricing, and regulatory liquidity reports is a plus
Alteryx and Tableau experience are a plus

Responsibilities

Design, implement and maintain consistent and streamlined operating models and controls across the global team and across risk stripes
Review and assess current control frameworks and partner with CTMO stakeholders across the globe to ensure consistency of operations and strength of controls.
Manage relationships across internal stakeholders including LOBs, Policy, Strategy and Risk
Lead regular touchpoints to review ongoing performance of reporting, and the support of adhoc requests
Compile metrics, synthesize key themes and present updates to senior management for review & escalation as required.
Interface with risk and control, internal auditors and CTMO team leads to satisfy internal and external control requirements.
Collaborate with BAU teams to own and remediate Action Plans (formally documented control gaps) specific to operating model enhancements
Collaborate with strategy and risk teams to comply with regulatory exams and requests.
Analyze current controls for potential gaps, perform historical analysis on control performance and assess success of current control framework.
Enhance and redesign existing processes to increase efficiencies and reduce operational risk.
Support ongoing periodic recertifications to meet audit and regulatory requirements, maintaining comprehensive documentation