Asset & Wealth Management Control Manager - Executive Director

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is a global leader in alternative investments, committed to delivering innovative solutions and exceptional results for our clients. Our Global Alternative Investments Solutions ("GAIS") platform offers a broad spectrum of investment strategies, including real estate, real assets, private equity, private credit, private infrastructure, hedge funds and liquid alternatives, designed to achieve specific client outcomes and deliver uncorrelated returns. The GAIS platform manages over $200 billion in assets, with a focus on delivering products and solutions for high net worth to retail customers.

As a Control Manager – Executive Director in Asset & Wealth Management, you will be the leader of Controls Management for the Global Alternative Investments Solutions (GAIS) business. This is a great opportunity to partner with senior stakeholders and help the firm mitigate operational risk.

.Job responsibilities:

• Manage control-related activities, including risk event data occurrences, and new business initiatives and provide control related due diligence to business units to foster a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols
• Partner effectively with colleagues across the firm, business, operations management, legal, compliance, risk, audit, regulators and technology control functions to drive consistent and rigorous operational risk practices and Control programs including: control committees, risk mitigation, key risk indicators, control design and performance evaluation
• Help establish control governance and reporting to identify meaningful metrics to inform on health of operational risk and control environment; escalate control deficiencies based on key reporting indicators; and manage control committees and forums.
• Lead and partner with the business, legal, risk, compliance and other control partners on various issues ranging from self-identified issues to global regulatory enforcement actions
• Lead in the root cause analysis of client-impacting errors and aid in the resolution both in correction and improvement of the control environment
• Partner with the business and other control partners across multiple time zones in an effort to create consistency in the control environment and underlying processes globally
• Lead or support discussions with regulators, audit teams, compliance and risk ranging from one-off meetings to more formal presentations in Business Control Committees
• Aid in the utilization of the technology budget and inform key decisions on technology infrastructure
• Manage and motivate a team across numerous global regions in executing to reduce financial loss, regulatory exposure, and reputational risk.
• Provide ongoing feedback and training to develop employees on risk concepts and the application to risk and control evaluation
• Lead by example, with exemplary personal and professional attributes. Inspire confidence in all levels of staff as well as key partners from other functional areas and across Lines of Business

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
• 10+ years of financial services experience in controls, audit, quality assurance, risk management, or compliance
• Experience leading broad cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and deliver best practices
• Demonstrate confident leadership and sound judgment to influence a strong culture and risk management
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) with the ability to develop compelling and meaningful executive presentations that will drive opportunities / recommendation for improvement
• Ability to understand the business / knowledge of regulation surrounding business
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence business leaders in a meaningful and actionable manner
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; exceptional collaboration and relationship building skills
• Flexible, adaptable to shifting priorities; manages competing priorities to achieve the most effective result and able to work in a fast-paced, results driven environment
• Ability to understand a process and associated risk to inform control design
• Ability to make subjective and informed decisions based upon output, influence stakeholders and justify decision making

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in or knowledge of alternative investments, including strategies such as real estate, real assets, private equity, private credit, private infrastructure, hedge funds and liquid alternatives, is a plus