Risk Management - Legal Obligations and Regulatory Change Management – 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 Legal Obligations and Regulatory Change Management – Vice President, you are part of the Risk Management and Compliance (RM&C) global organization.   In this role you will lead a group, responsible for the lifecycle management of legal and regulatory change management, related to the offering of financial products and services for the Risk Management & Compliance Department.  This team is responsible for day to day execution of the Legal Obligation and Regulatory Change Management program including identifying, implementing, and overseeing key governance framework requirements for RM&C, as well as timely and accurate escalation of and key risks and issues to senior management.  The position will require partnership and engagement with other key stakeholders within and outside of RM&C. 

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the legal obligations and regulatory change management lifecycle across RM&C, and manage  a large portfolio of strategic initiatives that mitigate compliance and operational risk, gathering and critically analyzing diverse collections of qualitative and quantitative data; understanding the relationship of laws, rules and regulations to the RM&C processes, risks, and controls as well as the connection to governance document updates 
• Lead regular status updates and liaise with firmwide stakeholders to manage adherence with the governance framework
• Deliver status updates, strong sense of escalation protocols and drive governance document requirements
• Develop clear and compelling communication materials for LOB, Corporate Function, and Firm level status updates and forums
• Draft strong written content for business requirements, technical specifications, project artefacts, internal and external communications
• Partner with the Lines of Business and Corporate Functions, manage relationships to deliver consistent and excellent stakeholder experience

  Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities

• Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degrees or professional certifications a plus (e.g., Juris Doctor degree)
• 7  years’ experience in Risk, Compliance, Legal or similar regulatory-facing  function
• Prior experience in the financial and / or law sectors, with a focus on governance / reporting roles, framework development, strategy
• Prior experience in designing business requirements to drive technology enhancements in partnership with the product team is a plus
• Exceptional writing and communication skills that can drive discussions and reach consensus / conclusion
• Critical mind-set to challenge the status quo and provide new perspectives for continuous enhancement to the overall program
• Demonstrated skill in working with large, complex topics and problems
• Advanced MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Project); experience with data analytics/visualization tools a plus (e.g. Tableau, Alteryx)
• Professional maturity and confidence in expressing a point of view with varied stakeholders and audiences
• Highly adaptable interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate as part of a team and engage across different business and functional areas
• Willingness to drive diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and ability to bring authentic self to the role