Kyc Assurance and Risk Governance Lead - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

You will be part of an establishing market leading function to help manage the regulatory risks involved in onboarding clients with special attention to meeting the regulatory Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Client (KYC) requirements.

As the Assurance and Risk Lead you will lead a small team to partner with Compliance, Internal Audit, Regulators, and senior management to help design, build and implement an appropriate quality assurance, risk, and control infrastructure for the business.

You will be a consistent, effective and collaborative team leader in change management and process re-engineering with experience in financial crime management and financial service regulations.

This is a great opportunity for you to work in a fast paced team and be part of our success story.

Role responsibilities

Lead the Pillar team focussed on managing Risk across either the KYC or Account Opening and Maintenance pillars.
Provide deep expertise across a range of specialist areas including AML/KYC, Regulatory engagement, Audits and Exams and Issue management.
Define and deliver a proactive quality assurance program for Client Onboarding to include methodology and sampling methods and ensure compliance with policy and regulatory requirements.
Engage with key business stakeholders, Regional COOs, Legal, Compliance, Control Management, Business Management, Product & Platform and Technology on fulfilling responsibilities of the risk team in EMEA.
Lead the proactive management of the testing cycle, validate test strategies, assess business risks and work with Regional Leads and teams to ensure adequate detective and preventative controls are in place to mitigate risk.
Ownership and proactive management of Action Plans including opening of plans, analysis of solutions, plan proposal, oversight of plan tasks, validation, manage chain of approvals and closure.
Perform root cause analysis and work with appropriate groups to recommend controls and solutions when researching risk events, operational processes, and new regulatory initiatives.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

Experience of regulatory, audit, assurance and financial crime management in complex financial enterprises
Extensive experience in leading projects or initiatives with senior stakeholders and global stakeholders
Excellent team leadership experience with a collaborative approach
Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to successfully engage a broad range of individuals across various business segments and key support functions, to achieve goals without direct control over resources

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Business or related studies
Transformation and Change management experience

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.

In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.