JPMorgan Chase India | Associate - Compliance and Ops Risk Test Lead

Responsibilities

• If you are a detail-oriented professional with a passion for risk management and compliance, join our dynamic team in the Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) to navigate complex risk landscapes while making a pivotal impact in our firm's robust risk strategy.
• As a Compliance and Operations Risk Test Lead, your deep understanding of risk management and control evaluation will be instrumental in identifying and mitigating risks, thereby enhancing compliance and operational risk management.
• You will also be responsible for planning and organizing your own work, and potentially that of a team, while liaising and coordinating activities across various departments.
• Your role will be integral in ensuring a cohesive and efficient testing framework, contributing to the seamless delivery of quality outcomes.
• Collaborate with Process/Control Owner, cross functional teams on testing schedule, obtain walkthrough of the process, document process changes, evidence gathering, analysis of potential issues and facilitate timely reporting.
• Drive issue validation, action plan quality and closure discipline by partnering with control owners to ensure remediation aligns with risk acceptance and compliance expectations.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for testers, providing guidance, resolving issues, and facilitating smooth communication within the team to ensure successful completion of testing engagements.
• Conduct comprehensive testing processes with precision and accountability to assess the control environment, identify gaps and prepare robust documentation including process documents, process flows, and overview documents that support testing conclusions.
• Lead stakeholder engagement by facilitating meetings with business owners and stakeholders at various management levels, fostering collaboration across engagements with minimal oversight, and effectively influencing stakeholders during challenging discussions.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in controls testing, audit, operational risk management and managing testing processes within a risk & control environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in advanced analytical thinking and problem solving skills with a track record of systematically organizing, comparing, and evaluating various aspects of a situation to identify key information.
• Proven ability to build strong partnerships with key stakeholders and collaborate with business & functional experts to provide guidance and to recognize risks and gaps.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills - ability to remain flexible and productive through shifting priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence business leaders in a meaningful and actionable manner.
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Office applications, with advanced skills in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint highly recommended.
• Audit & control testing background / experience.
• Comfortable using Intelligent solutions like Alteryx, Tableau to support testing activities or metrics reporting.
• Ability to innovate, challenge the status quo and identify automation opportunities.

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the world's largest financial services firms, active in investment banking, commercial banking, asset and wealth management, and payments.

Its Indian global centres support the firm worldwide in finance, accounting, tax, controllership, risk, operations and technology. Typical roles for CAs and CPAs are product control, financial reporting, tax and regulatory reporting.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: New York, USA
• In India: Corporate and investment banking in Mumbai; global corporate centres in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad