Compliance Risk Management Lead - Vice President

Bring your expertise to JPMorgan Chase.  As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

As a Global Financial Crimes Compliance Vice President within our firm, you will take on the role of Business Growth Lead for our Know Your Customer (KYC) program. Your responsibilities will include the development and continuous upkeep of Global KYC policies and standards, specifically tailored to address business growth initiatives such as acquisitions and business expansion. You will have the opportunity to enhance our KYC program, provide advice to senior management across various business lines on KYC matters, and ensure that KYC requirements are appropriately implemented, maintained, and updated in line with legal and regulatory requirements. Your role will require knowledge and experience in Compliance, familiarity with regulatory and/or audit best practices, and the ability to form strong partnerships with Line of Business (LOB) and global/regional Compliance teams, Internal Audit, Program Management, Operational Risk, and other Control functions.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide strategy, direction and ownership of KYC initiatives resulting from new business growth requests.
• Manage and execute KYC policy changes related to business growth, which includes assessing policy change proposals, providing independent critical challenge, drafting final KYC policy changes, and managing associated timelines
• Liaise with Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) to deliver on KYC program deliverables
• Understand the regulatory landscape to quickly identify and adapt to emerging compliance risks for KYC and augment the program accordingly
• Assess KYC compliance issues that may arise in business growth related initiatives and identify potential trouble spots
• Partner closely with senior compliance officers covering KYC across the Firm to ensure consistent interpretation and application of existing and new regulatory requirements – including both the spirit and intent of the law
• Engage with stakeholders to keep abreast of future business growth changes
• Provide thought leadership by leading change through an entrepreneurial mindset
• Develop management, stakeholder, and regulator presentations in order to communicate issues, recommendations, and status of initiatives

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 7 years AML/BSA/KYC Compliance or other related experience such as Risk management, Audit or similar Control-related experience that includes policy writing
• Strong understanding of relevant statutory and regulatory requirements across the globe in relation to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing, with the ability to understand, interpret and apply complex regulatory requirements to business practices to facilitate cooperative discussion with stakeholders
• Ability to establish credibility, strong partnerships and influence a broad stakeholder group which includes senior business leaders, control functions, and corporate partners globally
• Possess strong written and oral executive-level communications skills
• Detail-oriented; possess a high-level of attention to detail and quality for their work product

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with managing global projects, including designing project plans and driving stakeholder engagement and accountability
• Ability to work both independently and as a core team member
• Self-starter, highly organized, with prior experience managing large-scale, time-sensitive deliverables
• Ability to challenge the status quo by providing critical and analytical thinking and strong decision-making capabilities to identify problems, develop creative solutions, and escalate as necessary