Technology Risk & Controls Director jobs at Jpmorgan in United Kingdom, London

The role will cover a wide range of Leveraged (both Private Equity-owned and Corporate) and Investment Grade clients in the Consumer, Healthcare and Retail sectors.

As a Wholesale Credit Risk EMEA – Consumer, Healthcare, Retail – Vice President in the Commercial & Investment Bank team, you will play a crucial role in negotiating and developing recommendations for new transaction approvals across a variety of products, including secured and unsecured loans, derivatives, trade, and treasury products. You will lead due diligence and credit analysis to assess the creditworthiness of counterparties, making recommendations on appropriate structures, risk appetite, and grading. Your role will involve structuring and documentation negotiations, as well as ongoing credit risk portfolio management. You will also be committed to personal development and fostering team knowledge by coaching and training members of the Analyst and Associate community. Your ability to balance a commercial mindset with a sound risk and controls attitude will be key to managing the Firm’s balance sheet effectively.

Job responsibilities

• Negotiate and develop recommendations for new transaction approvals across various products.
• Lead due diligence and credit analysis to assess counterparty creditworthiness.
• Make recommendations on appropriate structure, risk appetite, and grading.
• Lead structuring and documentation negotiations for Investment Grade or Leveraged facilities.
• Commit to personal development and foster team knowledge through coaching and training.
• Manage ongoing credit risk portfolio, including monitoring credit ratings, sector trends, and client performance.
• Balance a commercial and solution-driven mindset with a sound risk and controls attitude.
• Develop close working relationships with senior stakeholders within the Commercial & Investment Bank.
• Understand and apply J.P. Morgan’s Risk management policies in interactions with stakeholders, including Regulators and Auditors.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Sound credit skills and judgment, with a proactive and flexible approach to coordinating and leading credit processes.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to establish credibility and trust with internal business and risk stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of transaction structures, documentation, and banking products sufficient to lead the execution of new deals and portfolio workstreams.
• Experience in Sponsor deal financings
• Ability to be a self-starter while working effectively in a team environment.
• Significant of experience in a comparable environment.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Previous experience leading loan documentation negotiations and core corporate derivative documentation is recommended (Investment Grade, Leverage Finance, Sponsor LBO).
• Experience in Consumer, Healthcare & Retail industries is valuable but not required

Start your career in technology and earn your degree in Digital and Technology Solutions on this four year program. You will learn in a hands-on environment what it’s like to be part of a team working with and developing new cutting edge technologies.

We offer an environment of support and personal investment where you’re given the opportunity to develop your career alongside your personal and technical skills.

Job responsibilities

• Working on enhancements and upgrades to existing software and developing new applications as part of an agile team.
• Reviewing code and testing applications.
• Participating in team projects, making a contribution to our business while applying the knowledge that you’re learning in the classroom.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Meeting the eligibility criteria for Apprenticeship Levy Funding.
• A minimum of BBB grades (or equivalent) at A-Level or other qualification (B grade or higher), with one mathematics, computing, or IT-based subject required.
• GCSEs or equivalent qualifications in English (5 or above) and Mathematics (6 or above).
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• A continuous learning mindset.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Passion for technology within financial services and a drive to learn new skills.

We will be filling our classes on a rolling basis. We strongly encourage you to submit your application as early as possible before job postings close.

To begin the application process, you will be asked to enter your email address. This email will be used to create and maintain your profile, so please ensure it is one you will have long-term access to.

Once you have submitted your application, we will review it to assess your eligibility. If you advance to the next stage, you will receive an email invitation to participate in an online Super Day.The online Super Day will happen within last two weeks of October or at the beginning of November.

If successful after Assessment Centre the final recruitment step is an in person Assessment Evening.
The in person Assessment Evening will happen within last two weeks of November or at the beginning of December.

Please be aware that due to the high volume of applications, the recruitment process may take several months. We will keep you informed of your application status as decisions are made.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and conduct analysis and reporting using various data sources to identify optimization, automation and data opportunities, providing actionable insights that shape strategic decisions and measure benefits.
• Gather information and prepare independent research and analysis, developing executive-ready recommendations and innovative solutions for business challenges.
• Partner with business stakeholders to surface, synthesize, and prioritize demand, ensuring strategic alignment and preventing duplication.
• Translate operational challenges and business needs into structured, actionable requirements for technical teams, clearly articulating ROI, risk reduction, and efficiency gains.
• Facilitate and support design workshops, process documentation, and journey mapping to frame opportunities and refine requirements.
• Collaborate with business operations, optimization, automation and data or tech teams throughout solution development and testing, ensuring business context is preserved.
• Track delivery outcomes, adoption rates, efficiency gains, and ROI metrics; prepare executive-ready reports and presentations.
• Drive post-delivery enablement by overseeing solution adoption, leading user training, facilitating knowledge transfer, and gathering feedback from business units to ensure solutions meet needs and inform future improvements through lessons learned and continuous improvement.
• Validate delivered solutions against expected outcomes, map current processes, and quantify potential ROI.
• Coach and mentor less experienced team members and contribute to building and evolving the Insights & Enablement practice.

• Validate delivered solutions against expected outcomes, map current processes, and quantify potential ROI.

• Coach and mentor less experienced team members, and contribute to building and evolving the Insights & Enablement practice.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 3+ years of experience in business analysis, process improvement, or operations strategy.
• Strong analytical, qualitative, and quantitative skills; ability to conduct independent research and provide actionable recommendations.
• Knowledge of or strong understanding of dashboards, business information systems, and data management practices.
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma, process improvement, or continuous improvement methodologies.
• Ability to document and visualize processes; familiarity with journey mapping techniques and tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart, Miro).
• Ability to synthesize findings into executive-ready documents and presentations with clear recommendations.
• Proven problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities.
• Effective communicator with strong verbal and written skills, including the ability to engage with senior management.
• Strong project planning and organizational skills; able to manage multiple demands simultaneously.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's degree or higher
• Exposure to data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik).
• Background in change management, enablement, or user adoption.
• Prior experience in preparing executive-level insights and ROI tracking.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Understanding of IT controls and compliance standards, particularly FFIEC.
• Experience in conducting technical audits and risk assessments
• Proficiency in creating automated reports and metrics
• Ability to manage multiple applications and provide guidance on compliance and remediation to software engineering team
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

• Excellent project management skills to ensure timely completion of action plans

• Exposure to US Dollar High Value (Wires) and Low Value (ACH - Automated Clearing House) payments

As a Technology Auditor - Associate within the Asset & Wealth Management (AWM) Technology Audit Team, you will execute the annual audit plan, participate in audit engagements by performing audit testing, and participate in various continuous monitoring efforts. This position is ideal for someone with knowledge of various technologies, operating systems, databases and data analytical skills, as well as the audit and risk skills to be able to effectively execute global technology audits.

Job responsibilities

• Participate on technology audit engagements, from planning to reporting, and produce quality deliverables to both department and professional standards, while ensuring audits are completed timely and within budget.
• Work closely with global Audit colleagues in the early identification of emerging control issues, and report them in a timely manner to Audit management and business stakeholders
• Partner with stakeholders, business management, other control groups (i.e. risk management, compliance, fraud prevention), establishing strong working relationships while maintaining independence
• Finalize audit findings and use judgment to provide an overall opinion on the control environment by developing recommendations to strengthen internal controls
• Communicate audit findings to management, and identify opportunities for improvement in the design and effectiveness of key controls
• Stay up-to-date with evolving industry/regulatory changes impacting the business and participate in appropriate control forums
• Find ways to drive efficiency with existing technical infrastructure through automation while embracing the innovative opportunities offered by new technologies
• Recognize the confidential nature of Internal Audit communications and access to information; exercise discipline in protecting the confidentiality and security of information in accordance with firm policy.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Knowledge and experience in various Technology and Cyber domains, for e.g., Software Lifecycle Development (SDLC), Vulnerability Management, Change Management, etc.
• Understanding of internal control concepts, with proven ability to evaluate and determine the adequacy of controls by considering business and technology risks in an integrated manner.
• Strong data analytical skills with extensive experience and ease of use with industry-leading data analytics tools such as Alteryx and Tableau.
• Strong analytical skills, particularly with regards to assessing the probability and impact of an internal control weakness.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills; adept at presenting complex and sensitive issues to senior management and strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to establish credibility and build partnerships with senior business and control partners.
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated, with a keen interest in learning; effective under pressure and willing to take personal responsibility/accountability as well as flexible to changing business priorities and ability to multitask in a constantly changing environment.

Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Experience with internal audit methodology and applying concepts in audit delivery and execution preferred.
• Certified in CISA, CISM or other technology audit certifications.
• Bachelor's degree in Technology or related field
• Preferred internal or external technology auditing experience, or relevant technology risk and control management experience.

As a Control Manager in the Markets Sales and Trading team, you will lead quality assurance activities that support our supervisory framework and compliance objectives. You will work closely with colleagues across functions and levels, providing valuable insights and presenting findings to senior forums. This role offers you the opportunity to shape our risk management strategies and collaborate with a diverse team. Together, we will ensure the highest standards of integrity and operational excellence.

• Plan and execute quarterly Markets Business Control Management assurance activities
• Partner with the Quality Assurance Program Owner to review scope and update documentation for approval
• Manage objectives, scope, sampling methodology, scoring methodology, quality thresholds, results reporting, tracking of corrective actions, and record retention
• Execute testing pre-work and analyze results, overseeing findings reports with suggested actions
• Act as the oversight contact for the offshore Quality Assurance team and handle escalations
• Conduct interviews during the Quality Assurance cycle and create presentations of results for different audiences
• Collaborate with stakeholders across functions and levels throughout the organization
• Mentor and provide guidance to offshore colleagues
• Monitor and track findings through to resolution
• Present at senior forums as a delegate for the Quality Assurance Program Owner

• Ensure effective communication and collaboration within the team

  Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Deep understanding of Markets Sales or Trading business
• Experience in the financial services industry with a background in audit, assurance, controls, operational risk management, compliance, or equivalent subject matter expertise in a relevant business-related function or operation
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Visio
• Knowledge of data analytics using Microsoft Excel, Alteryx, or Python
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence business leaders meaningfully and actionably
• Exceptional interpersonal, collaboration, and relationship-building skills
• Flexible and adaptable to shifting priorities; manages competing priorities to achieve effective results in a fast-paced, results-driven environment
• Independent decision-making using sound judgment
• Strong critical thinking, attention to detail, and analytical skills; able to synthesize large amounts of data and formulate appropriate conclusions

• Demonstrated implementation skills

  Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence business leaders in a meaningful and actionable manner
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; able to synthesize large amounts of data and formulate appropriate conclusions
• Ability to manage multiple and competing deliverables
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Visio, with data analytics experience using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access
• Strong digital literacy for effective use of digital tools and platforms in control frameworks
• Emerging ability to influence stakeholders in implementing compliance strategies and fostering collaboration
• Experience presenting findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders