Financial Crime Monitoring and Testing - Vice President

Aumni

Aumni

Accounting & Finance
Dublin, Ireland
Posted on Oct 26, 2024

Job Description

Join our dynamic team as a Vice President of Financial Crime (2LoD) Monitoring and Testing, where you'll play a pivotal role in safeguarding our organisation against risks from financial crime threats. In this position, you'll be part of a team providing assurance to senior management and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

As a Vice President in the EMEA CCOR Monitoring and Testing team, you'll be responsible for the timely and effective management and execution of the EMEA CCOR GFCC testing activities to assess the effectiveness of financial crime related processes and controls. You will also be responsible for leading and supporting other EMEA CCOR GFCC testing programme/projects as required. This role offers an exciting opportunity with a supportive team to develop key skills and knowledge relating to many and various business areas within the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB), Asset & Wealth Management and other lines of business around the globe.

Job responsibilities

  • Execute the EMEA CCOR Monitoring and Testing Programme in line with the firm’s expectation. Perform testing to assess the design and effectiveness of controls in place to manage operational, compliance and conduct risks.
  • Self-manage testing of business process and controls against Regulatory requirements
  • Partner with Operational Risk and Compliance managers, and business stakeholders.
  • Validate action plans are addressing identified issues in line with the firm’s expectations.
  • Be involved in departmental projects particularly in relation to the development of the Annual Monitoring and Testing Plan.
  • Work with global testing partners to support global monitoring and testing assignments as directed.

The role is a designated Control Function (CF2) and is subject to the Central Bank of Ireland Fitness & Probity regime.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Financial Crime/Compliance or Operational Risk Management experience in BSA/AML/KYC/Sanctions areas.
  • Strong communication and influencing skills - able to work across groups (Compliance, Controls and allied business groups), is collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about supporting internal / external stakeholders.
  • Proven track record of successful stakeholder management.
  • An understanding of operational risks and their drivers, and able to challenge the design and effectiveness of the associated business controls.
  • The ability to interpret financial regulations and regulatory requirements and assess operational compliance with those requirements.
  • Good analytical skills, attention to detail and able to demonstrate a good knowledge of control design and root cause analysis, including data analysis.
  • Have clear and concise verbal and written skills
  • Have good organizational skills with an ability to independently manage, prioritise, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
  • Be comfortable interacting with, and presenting to senior management, control functions, including internal and external auditors.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • related experience such as audit, operations, business control management, or similar. ACAMS, ICA or comparable certification 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

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Our Compliance teams work globally across all lines of business to advise internal stakeholders on the impact of regulatory requirements and how to balance these with the firm’s needs. Their diverse mandate means they also provide input on new business strategies, product lines, policies, training, operational processes, risk mitigation and control.