JPMorgan Chase India | Vice President - Compliance and Ops Risk Testing

Job responsibilities

• As a Compliance and Operations Risk Test Manager, you will lead in shaping the testing strategy across various business lines, ensuring alignment with regulatory and firm requirements.
• As a leader, you will manage a diverse team, planning and organizing individual and team activities to integrate and coordinate work across various departments.
• Your role will also involve making impactful decisions, while maintaining compliance with operational policies and precedents.
• Your role will be integral in ensuring a cohesive and efficient testing framework, contributing to the seamless delivery of quality outcomes.
• Lead the development and execution of comprehensive testing strategies for the assigned function's control environment to ensure alignment with SOX, other regulatory frameworks & with the firm's risk priorities.
• Manage complex testing initiatives, applying advanced project management skills to ensure timely and efficient delivery of outcomes.
• Oversee and drive issue validation, action plan quality and closure discipline by partnering with control owners to ensure remediation aligns with risk acceptance and compliance expectations.
• Manage a diverse testing team by providing guidance, resolving issues, and fostering clear communication to ensure successful engagement delivery.
• Oversee the 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 and effectively influencing stakeholders during challenging discussions.
• Make strategic decisions that have a wide-ranging impact throughout the function, using deep knowledge of policies/standards/procedures & risk management practices to ensure accurate implementation of compliance requirements thereby strengthening the firm's compliance and operational risk management framework.

Requirements

• Minimum of 13 years of work experience in controls testing, audit, operational risk management and managing testing processes within a risk & control environment.
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of Risk Management and Compliance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience in fostering relationships with senior stakeholders and effectively communicating testing strategies and outcomes.
• Advanced proficiency in project management and time management, with a history of delivering results that accelerate business objectives.
• Proven track record of leading diverse teams while strategically planning and coordinating cross-departmental activities to achieve compliance requirements and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Office applications, with advanced skills in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint highly recommended.
• Audit & control testing background / experience.
• Proven track record in developing and implementing comprehensive testing strategies that align with regulatory requirements and firm policies.
• Experience with automation and AI-driven testing frameworks is highly desirable, along with the ability to innovate, challenge the status quo and proactively identify automation opportunities.
• Demonstrated proficiency in advanced analytical thinking and problem solving skills with a track record of systematically evaluating complex situations to extract key insights, coupled with excellent written and verbal communication skills to influence business leaders in a meaningful and actionable manner.

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