Vice President - Ficc Transformation

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in “Transformation”. You have found the right team.

 As  “Transformation” within our “ Markets Transformation” , you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm

Markets Transformation’s mission is to drive impactful transformation across CIB Market Operations in a collaborative, disciplined and commercial manner. Our Tech agenda develops and delivers a wider range of offerings to support our businesses, offering both firm wide solutions and bespoke business applications. Aggressive retirement of legacy platforms as well as laser focus on driving delivering of digital tools (such as Data Visualization, Robotics, Automated Analytics) requires a strong Transformation team to drive these forward and deliver successfully for Operations.

The Transformation team are at the forefront of driving the end to end Regulatory delivery program.  Managing, delivering and controlling the significant changes that are taking place across the department and the industry globally represents a key area of focus and risk for the organization

You will work with our business stakeholders to deliver projects aligned to key priorities, define expected project outcomes, and co-ordinate with technology partners to deliver solutions.  They will partner extensively with the Business, Middle / Back Office, Legal & Compliance, Audit, Technology, Regulatory Reporting and Controls teams.  The candidate should be able to work independently, but as part of a wider cross-location team.  This role provides extensive exposure across the Business with the opportunity to creatively problem-solve on a broad scale.

Job Responsibilities 

• Combining specialist expertise in project management and change skills to lead Transformation across the global lines of business. 
• Partner closely with Technology teams to drive resolution.
• Collaborate with Business & Operations stakeholders to manage the information flow and delivery of key project milestones.
• Lead working group meetings, setting agendas, preparing meeting materials, documenting minutes, tracking issues, and ensuring clear ownership of action items.
• Communicate regular written and verbal updates to stakeholders. Implement and maintain project trackers and weekly scorecards.
• Effective risk management and appropriate escalation.
• Lead effective data driven storytelling to articulate the problem statement, challenges and proposed solutions, including building a storytelling culture
• Articulate solutions vs current state for digitization, automation and reducing manual touch points. 
• Champion diversity and inclusion to create a working environment which promotes our people to thrive and excel. Develop effective and diverse teams across our global footprint
• Lead coaching and mentoring of our people.
• Implement a successful people and engagement strategy to help attract, develop, retain and recognize a diverse and talented workforce

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills. 

• Proven leadership of project managers in the financial industry with project management experience in utilizing recognized project methodology frameworks, including OKR framework
• Experience building strong relationships within a short time period, and leveraging relationships to lead and influence direction across multiple stakeholder groups
• Demonstrable track record in leading multiple complex and challenging pieces of work to firm deadlines.
• Ability to successfully lead under pressure across regions, time-zones, businesses, and functions with demonstrably strong communication, negotiation, influencing and relationship management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including attention to detail and the ability to succinctly communicate complex issues to audiences at all levels with appropriate presentation materials.
• Ability to pivot leadership to quickly adapt to evolving internal/external factors that can influence project outcomes.
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills
• Confident to challenge business and technology requirements and solutions, respectively.
• Prior Investment Banking experience, preferably in a Middle Office / Projects role with derivative and fixed income products

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.