Wholesale KYC Operations - Project Manager - Vice President

The combined program team will operate globally, working across LOBs, with multiple functional areas, and be responsible for end to end program delivery. Each project manager will be responsible for leading key workstreams, ensuring the dependencies across each are managed to ensure the program delivers on its goals as a whole. As a Wholesale KYC Operations - Project Manager - Vice President in Operations you will be responsible for implementing solutions to the most complex problems by managing delivery of cutting-edge processes, leveraging Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, enabling the firm to operate with maximum efficiency, in compliance with regulations. You will need to collaborate with a variety of internal clients and subject matter experts at every level of the organization and solicit and validate views from senior leaders and executives, and support business unit managers. You will be responsible for problem solving and driving execution and reporting on it to senior leadership. You will need excellent communication across diverse stakeholder groups, a can-do attitude and a thirst for knowledge.,

• Leads, drives and articulates our transformation strategy, progress, and impact in a way that resonates with and aligns with the overall firm and LOB objectives
• Produces and communicates materials for firmwide and LOB management reporting and maintain and track submissions and deadlines
• Leads meetings and presentations, at the operational and project level; work with program management to help prioritise work across impacted areas
• Manages appropriately sized project workstreams, produce, and maintain project plans, business requirements and adoption plans
• Performs data and root cause analysis to define and resolve challenges. Gets involved in the detail when required to understand issues and steps to resolution
• Identifies and influences the key stakeholders required to deliver the project work. Acts as an escalation point for wider stakeholder issues to make all parties aware of overall project impact, facilitating management decisions at the earliest opportunity
• Ensures all stakeholders are aware and appraised of key developments; maintain living, evolving, documentation to ensure there is clarity of both the current status and next steps. Provide continuous feedback on plan status; ensure information is shared, issues escalated and addressed timely.
• Facilitates and actively partakes in requirement walkthroughs with SMEs and key business users, obtain, review, and understand project requirements so that you can effectively lead the project, assess risks and issues, actively help solve problems that may arise, and ensure robust solutions are delivered to meet the specified business requirements.
• Grows understanding of the business, end to end onboarding process and stakeholder environment in order to actively shape the operating model and challenge assumptions
• Identifies, documents, and communicates risks and dependencies affecting deliveries; drive their resolution. Actively identifies, manages & escalates Risks, Issues & Dependencies, whilst continuing to own mitigation
• Identifies opportunities to improve and streamline Governance and Control activities and then drive through changes to implement those changes
  
  Ability to analyse information, connect the dots and articulate clear strategy, outcomes, and key messages
• Data-led thinking, analysis, and ability to communicate impact with data
• Previous experience of project requirements, project delivery process, business analysis, testing success factors, and implementation guidelines. Proficiency with key project management tools
• Very strong communication skills, written, verbal & visualization, coupled with the ability to develop and communicate key messages appropriately at all levels of the organization, influence others & gain consensus
• Have great attention to detail, a naturally inquisitive approach to problem solving, and a very high-quality bar
• A motivated, experienced initiative-taker approach with an excellent problem-solving mind-set - ability to drive a positive action orientated approach to define and broker solutions and resolve conflict across teams. A collaborator, able to work effectively as part of a hardworking, close-knit team. Result oriented attitude. Ability to be flexible, work to tight deadlines and prioritise work
• Ability to work with large data sets and establish trends to form and validate process decisions
• Required: Strong PC skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Flexible work hours in support of a global support model
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, professional project management certification (e.g., PRINCE 2) or equivalent work experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• An understanding the KYC processes and associated KYC systems would be advantageous
  
  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., 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.