JP Morgan Chase - Associate - Market Legal & Regulatory Change Management (4-5 yrs)

Associate - Markets Legal & Regulatory Change Management

Description:

- The Office of Legal Obligations (OLO) program is a firm-wide, global initiative that brings together the expertise of Legal, businesses, Business Control Management, Compliance, Risk and other key control functions, to proactively manage regulatory changes in our operations and allow us to trace end-to-end connections between laws, rules and regulations on the one hand, and our policies and procedures that demonstrate compliance on the other.

- The OLO program has been running since 2017, and has now transitioned into a 'BAU' state, in which a Legal and Regulatory Change Management (LRCM) framework has been established, to ensure that the inventory of laws, rules and regulations relevant to global Markets businesses held in the Enterprise Library Application, or ELA database, is kept up to date to reflect the impact of constant business and regulatory change.

- The role is within the Markets Business Controls Management (BCM) organization, supporting the global Markets business across Sales, Trading and Research. The Markets LRCM Associate will be responsible for the completion of LRCM-related BAU tasks, including mapping legal obligations to the policies, procedures and other evidence that demonstrates how Markets meets these legal requirements.

- Mapping Execution activities will involve working extensively with a diverse set of global stakeholders, including Legal, Compliance, Business Control Management and other stakeholders. The team's activities cover 24 jurisdictions (8 languages), with further scope expansion expected.

- The position reports into the Markets OLO lead based in Bangalore.

Job Responsibilities:

- Determining the applicability of individual regulations to the Markets businesses, and subsequently mapping these legal obligations and the full underlying legal text to procedures or other supporting documentation, and related CORE Business Processes.

- Mapping Execution activities will involve working extensively with a diverse set of global stakeholders, including Legal, Compliance, Business Control Management and other stakeholders.

- The team's activities cover 24 jurisdictions (8 languages), with further scope expansion expected.

- Acting as a Subject Matter Expert on OLO processes and tools, collaborating with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance, Business partners and others to ensure a clear and consistent interpretation of applicable obligations.

- Developing and maintaining reference data to facilitate obligation mapping, e.g. matrices of business activities, LEs, procedures and control framework by product and country.

- Compiling procedure gap analysis data and making recommendations to senior Business Control Managers, amongst others, as to how these gaps should be addressed.

- Responding to and resolving items identified by Quality Assurance and audit processes.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

- Experience in business controls, operational risk, Compliance, Legal, Audit or similar function with coverage of Markets Sales / Trading businesses.

- Comfortable with and adept at reading and interpreting legal text as a layperson (note: formal legal qualifications are not required).

- Good project management skills and ability to instill structure, process, and accountability to meet aggressive weekly production delivery targets, whilst maintaining quality standards.

- Detail oriented, with a highly disciplined approach to process and quality control.

- Strong business analysis skills to enable efficient, accurate and objective decision making.

- Excellent personnel and organizational management skills, ability to work under pressure and handle high volume of throughput without compromising quality.

- Ability to partner closely with related functions to ensure a coordinated and effective program.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

- A level of familiarity with, and interest in, J.P. Morgan's Markets products and businesses.

- Understanding of the control framework for Markets businesses would be beneficial.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., 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.

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