Business Manager in Payments - Associate (all genders)

Job Description
Join our Global Finance & Business Management team and help shape the future of payments across EMEA. As part of a dynamic and collaborative environment, you'll play a key role in driving business strategy, supporting stakeholders, and ensuring robust financial and operational performance. This is an exciting opportunity to make an impact while working with talented professionals in a fast-paced, growth-oriented organization.
As an Associate in the EMEA Payments Business Management Team, you will drive strategy, manage controls, and support financial performance for EEA & Switzerland branches. Your will be a key point of contact for front office and support functions, contributing to business analysis, reporting, and risk management, ensuring compliance and fostering strong relationships across Finance & Business Management teams.
Job responsibilities

• Be a point of contact to the Payments front office and support functions to help achieve business objectives and opportunities
• Assist in communication of the business strategy, performance and priorities
• Proactively and on request provide strategic analyses and reporting to facilitate business progression
• Manage business risk by ensuring an effective control environment
• Ensure the business' compliance with Line of Business and firm-wide objectives and policies
• Build effective relationships and work closely with F&BM colleagues (Planning & Analysis, Controllers, Industry/Product business managers, Office Management)
• Ensure monthly performance reporting and forecasting process, including revenue, balances, volumes, spreads and expense trends are completed
• Support the annual planning process and monthly performance tracking against plan; prepare of periodic and ad hoc business performance presentations / reviews
• Review deal pipeline and work closely with Sales to provide monitoring against targets
• Assess impact of changes in regulations / market events
• Contribute to the EMEA & Global F&BM agenda (priorities, projects, events)

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Education to degree standard (or equivalent)
• Understanding of Payments products, systems and processes
• Fluent German and English language skills
• Strong organisational and time management skills; flexibility, ability to prioritise requests and multi-task in the face of ever-changing and sometimes conflicting demands
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and effective under pressure
• Strong analytical and numeric skills, excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship building skills; ability to work well individually and partner effectively within a team
• Pro-active and problem solving mindset with ability to identify, clearly present and implement solutions
• A thorough understanding and appreciation of risks and controls
• Disciplined approach to processes and controls with a view to continuous improvement
• Strong knowledge of MS Office tools, especially PowerPoint and Excel

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Education to degree in an Accounting, Finance, Economics or related discipline is preferred

About Us
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.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.