Finance and Business Management, Project Manager - Associate

Job Description
The Corporate and Investment Bank Finance & Business Management's goals are to ensure a sound control environment and provide financial advice to support the business strategy. Global Finance & Business Management works to strategically manage capital, drive growth and efficiencies, maintain financial reporting and proactively manage risk. By providing information, analysis and recommendations to improve results and drive decisions, teams ensure the company can navigate all types of market conditions while protecting our fortress balance sheet.
Job Description
This team is looking for an Associate to support the broad program, project & process agendas of the CIB Finance and Business Management Global Program Management group. Our group supports a mixture of projects related to Finance, Risk and Operational processes and Regulatory changes across multiple businesses and functions in the Corporate and Investment Bank.
Job responsibilities:

• Project Managers will manage and execute portfolios of projects liaising with Corporate and Investment Bank line of business stakeholders, Corporate functions, Operations and Technology.
• Manage communication of status updates to stakeholders and Senior Management through scorecards and tracking of milestones and critical path.
• Coordinate working group meetings, Steering group meetings - setting the agenda, preparing meeting materials using PowerPoint / Pitch-pro, documenting minutes in a timely manner and ensuring clear ownership of action items.
• Build and maintain working relationships with stakeholders in the different businesses our team supports (e.g., Markets, Securities Services, Banking) and functions (e.g., Risk [Credit Risk, Legal entity Risk], Finance [Business Management, Product Control], Technology, Operations, Legal, etc.) and partner with stakeholders, providing guidance and analysis, helping identify and escalate issues/risks/dependencies and facilitating communication across the impacted teams.
• Defining project plan for a project or a work stream of a large project and ensuring quality executing against the project plan / critical path.
• Partner with technology to ensure the design and build requirements meet business needs. Coordinating, planning and overseeing the execution of testing across all lines of business, as required if a Technology impacted project.
• Leveraging the automation / innovation tools (Alteryx, Tableau, Signavio etc.) to deliver project deliverables / execution as appropriate.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Minimum of 2-4 years project management experience.
• Attention to detail, ability to work independently, multitask, prioritize and be self-motivated.
• Strong analytical, data management and problem solving skills. Ability to map and understand complex workflows and business processes. Good working knowledge of MS Excel and PowerPoint required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to articulate complex issues concisely and communicate effectively and comfortably with senior people.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Ability to execute tasks under compact deadlines and to effectively manage changes in plan in a changing work environment.
• English and Spanish proficiency required.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Knowledge of Finance, Risk, Operations, Regulatory Reporting, Regulatory Financial Reform, along with knowledge of Corporate and Investment Bank businesses and the products they manage would be an advantage
• Knowledge of a Project Management Methodology would be an advantage (PRINCE2, PMI PMP, Agile, Waterfall framework)
• Finance background is a strong plus - must be able to interact and discuss project issues with legal entity control, financial control and product controller teams.
• Financial Products Knowledge (FX, Derivatives, Fixed Income) also a strong plus.

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
The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world's most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.
Global Finance & Business Management works to strategically manage capital, drive growth and efficiencies, maintain financial reporting and proactively manage risk. By providing information, analysis and recommendations to improve results and drive decisions, teams ensure the company can navigate all types of market conditions while protecting our fortress balance sheet.