Job Description

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 the Policy and Program Support team to partner with the Business.


As a Senior Associate, you will need to collaborate with a variety of internal clients and subject matter experts at every level of the organization and solicit and validate views from senior leaders and executives, and support business unit managers. The role works closely with senior leadership to problem solve and drive execution and implementation of strategic regulatory initiatives. It necessitates excellent communication across diverse stakeholder groups, a can-do attitude and a thirst for knowledge.


Job responsibilities

• Lead meetings and presentations, at the operational and project level; work with program management to help prioritise work across impacted areas.
• Lead scope definition and requirements gathering sessions, capture of requirements in readiness for project handover to the aligned Project Manager.
• Facilitate and actively partake in requirement walkthroughs with SMEs and key business users, obtain, review, and understand project requirements, assess risks and issues, actively help solve problems that may arise, and ensure robust solutions are delivered to meet the specified business requirements.
• Identify and influence the key stakeholders needed to capture project requirements. Act as an escalation point for wider stakeholder issues to make all parties aware of overall project impact, facilitating management decisions at the earliest opportunity.
• Ensure all stakeholders are aware and appraised of key developments; maintain living, evolving, documentation to ensure there is clarity of both the current status and next steps. Provide continuous feedback on plan status; ensure information is shared, issues escalated and addressed timely.
• Grow understanding of the business, end to end onboarding process and stakeholder environment in order to actively shape the operating model and challenge assumptions.
• Identify, document, and communicate risks and dependencies affecting deliveries; drive their resolution. Actively identify, manage & escalate Risks, Issues & Dependencies, whilst continuing to own mitigation.
• Demonstrate effective controls around the introduction of change and or process improvements. Follow the prescribed WKO Change Management process.
• Identify opportunities to improve and streamline Governance and Control activities and then drive through changes to implement those changes.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• A basic understanding of project requirements gathering, project delivery process, business analysis, data capture
• Solid communication skills, written, verbal & visualization, coupled with the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization, influence others & gain consensus.
• Have great attention to detail, a naturally inquisitive approach to problem solving, and a very high-quality bar.
• A motivated, experienced self-starter approach with an excellent problem-solving mind-set - ability to drive a positive action orientated approach to define and broker solutions, and resolve conflict across teams. A team player able to work effectively as part of a hardworking, close-knit team. Result oriented attitude. Ability to be flexible, work to tight deadlines and prioritise work.
• Ability to work with large data sets and establish trends to form and validate process decisions.
• Required: Solid PC skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• A basic understanding the KYC processes and associated KYC systems would be advantageous.
• Flexible work hours in support of a global support model

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



The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world's most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.