Risk and Controls Manager

Risk and Controls Manager - JP Morgan Chase - Edinburgh - 12 months contract - ONSITE - PAYE

We are seeking an experienced Risk and Controls Manager to join Chase UK, JP Morgan's digital consumer bank, in Edinburgh, for an initial 12 months contract. You should have previous risk and controls experience within the financial services industry with strong stakeholder management skills to be considered for this role.

Description

As a Risk and Controls Manager at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will be a part of a flat-structure organization. You'll be responsible for leading and building out an enhanced control framework which supports a continuous and integrated approach to risk assessment. Additionally, you'll ensure the team assists in top-down risk analysis, real-time control issue detection, escalation, root cause analysis, and remediation.

The bank's Risk and Controls Management team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech.

Job Responsibilities

Control Management maintains a strong and consistent control environment through a joint accountability model that aligns managers with each line of business, function and region to mitigate operational risk.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting the design and implementation of control frameworks to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Collaborating and build relationships with Operations business stakeholders to identify potential risks associated with new and existing products, and develop strategies to mitigate these risks.
• Supporting Audit and testing engagements
• Management of Issues related to relevant operational processes
• Conducting comprehensive risk assessments for product development and change initiatives, ensuring that all potential risks are identified, evaluated, and addressed.
• Monitoring and evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls and recommend improvements as necessary.
• Contributing to the Compliance and Operational Risk Evaluation (CORE) program by focusing on four key pillars: i) Control Design & Expertise; ii) Risks & Controls Identification/Assessment; iii) Issue Management; iv) Control Governance & Reporting.
• Partnering effectively with control colleagues across the firm, business, operations management, legal, compliance, risk, audit and technology control functions to further establish and maintain business relationship loops.
• Supporting consistent and rigorous operational risk practices and control programs (incl. control committee reporting, risk mitigation, key risk indicators, control design, and controls performance evaluations).
• Reviewing, analysing and managing programme-related data (e.g. KRIs/KPIs) and key metrics to inform on the health of the operational risk and control environment.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Experience in Operational Risk Management gained through working within Product, Controls, Compliance or Audit within a large financial institution, regulator, consulting firm and/or retail investments manager.
• Strong acumen for risk identification and assessment, and development of effective control mechanisms that mitigate these risks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence business leaders at all levels of seniority in a meaningful and actionable manner
• Experience in partnering with business and other stakeholders to manage remediation of operational risk related issues.
• Experience process mapping
• Effective time management and prioritization skills.
• Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy and integrity.
• Comfortable working in an agile and evolving environment
• Passion to grow as part of a team
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Desirable Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Experience using any of the following a plus: JIRA, Confluence, Alteryx or CORE
• Knowledge of Retail banking processes, regulations and risk.
• Understanding of Retail banking products
• Relevant Bachelor's degree preferred but not required

*Please note that this role will be full time office based*

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary

Contract length: 12 months

Pay: £200.00-£400.00 per day

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Edinburgh: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Operations management: 3 years (required)
• risk and controls: 3 years (required)
• Financial services: 1 year (preferred)
• Business processes: 1 year (required)
• Jira or confluence: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person