Make a meaningful difference in employees’ lives by ensuring leave and return-to-work processes run smoothly. In this role, you’ll coordinate across teams to resolve issues quickly, protect accurate pay and time reporting, and improve the overall employee experience. If you enjoy problem-solving, clear communication, and managing details with care, this role offers visible impact every day.
As a Leave Manager in the Leave Management team, you will coordinate leave of absence and return-from-leave activities for overtime-eligible employees to ensure accurate processing, timely issue resolution, and a strong employee experience. You will serve as a liaison across partners and the employee on leave, manage escalations, and complete tasks such as time reconciliation and system updates to support correct pay and entitlement tracking.
Job responsibilities- Coordinate leave of absence and return-from-leave activities by partnering with internal teams and third-party leave administrators.
- Serve as a liaison between employees on leave and key partners to ensure timely, accurate processing and communication.
- Manage and research escalations related to leave of absence and drive issues through to resolution.
- Reconcile time and update pay, time, and scheduling systems to ensure employees are paid correctly.
- Correct entitlement and adherence records to avoid scorecard impact.
- Support timecard entry requirements to ensure pay accuracy.
- Consult with payroll on overpayments and underpayments and coordinate corrections.
- Track intermittent leave usage to ensure utilization meets policy and regulatory requirements.
- Communicate leave trends and usage patterns to leadership through clear reporting.
- Recommend process improvements and escalate critical trends and risks to leadership promptly.
- Reinforce policies and procedures and partner with stakeholders to resolve issues impacting employees and internal clients.
- Demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills, accuracy, and attention to detail while managing multiple priorities.
- Demonstrate ability to provide prompt, transparent, value-added communication to employees and internal clients.
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively with multiple levels of management.
- Demonstrate ability to manage multiple deadlines and support change in a dynamic environment.
- Demonstrate process improvement capability, including identifying issues, recommending changes, and escalating adverse impacts.
- Demonstrate ability to build relationships and influence across teams.
- Demonstrate strong technology, reporting, reconciliation, and quantitative skills.
- Demonstrate proficiency with business applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, scheduling systems, SharePoint, and human capital management systems.
- Demonstrate subject matter knowledge across multiple leave types, such as short-term disability, long-term disability, family and medical leave, military leave, caregiver leave, and personal leave.
- Demonstrate experience coordinating intermittent leave usage tracking and reporting.
- Demonstrate experience partnering with payroll and leave administration providers to resolve pay and leave-related issues.
Internal Application Eligibility Requirements
TENURE:
Must meet minimum employment tenure requirement. Specific roles require longer tenure in current position to be eligible to apply. Unless established for specific positions by the line of business, the standard tenure requirement is 12 months.
PERFORMANCE:
Meets satisfactory performance standards as defined by the firm by submitting an application and/or joining the interview, you affirm to meet the Internal Mobility Eligibility Requirements as stated in the Applying for Internal Positions Firmwide Standard. You are expected to provide true and accurate information to the Company during the recruitment and application process. Knowingly giving false or misleading information shall be subjected to the imposition of appropriate corrective action, following the firm’s HR Policies and Guidelines.
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About Us
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
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.
Skills Required
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills, accuracy, and attention to detail while managing multiple priorities.
- Ability to provide prompt, transparent, value-added communication to employees and internal clients.
- Ability to communicate effectively with multiple levels of management.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and support change in a dynamic environment.
- Process improvement capability, including identifying issues, recommending changes, and escalating adverse impacts.
- Ability to build relationships and influence across teams.
- Strong technology, reporting, reconciliation, and quantitative skills.
- Proficiency with business applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, scheduling systems, SharePoint, and human capital management systems.
- Minimum employment tenure of 12 months to be eligible to apply (internal applicants).
- Meets satisfactory performance standards as defined by the firm.
- Subject matter knowledge across multiple leave types (short-term disability, long-term disability, FMLA, military, caregiver, personal leave).
- Experience coordinating intermittent leave usage tracking and reporting.
- Experience partnering with payroll and leave administration providers to resolve pay and leave-related issues.
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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