Tech Risk Controls Director jobs at Jpmorgan in United Kingdom

Leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership to guide cutting-edge projects, fostering growth and innovation in a dynamic environment.

As a Lead Technical Program Manager in the EMEA Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) Payments Technology Controls team, you will influence the successful delivery of complex technology projects and programs that will help reaching business goals across the firm. Leveraging your deep knowledge of technical principles, practices, and theories is essential for influencing innovative solutions, while simultaneously effectively reporting on resources, budgets, and high-performing teams. Your strong analytical reasoning and adaptability skills will enable you to navigate through ambiguity and change, ensuring that technology initiatives align with business goals. With advanced communication and stakeholder management abilities, you will foster productive working relationships and influence decision-making to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. As a subject matter expert, you will contribute to the development of operational plans and risk management strategies, ensuring the highest quality and professionalism in service delivery.

Job responsibilities

• Build comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Global Technology Significant and Payments Strategic projects impacting the EMEA region. Influence outcomes with regulatory impact and reporting.
• Identify and highlight risks, proactively escalating potential roadblocks to maintain project and program momentum.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and business stakeholders, to understand program scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
• Build a good understanding of the regulatory landscape feeding into control forums, regulatory attestations, and incident reporting.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience or equivalent expertise in technical program management, leading complex technology projects and programs in a large organization.
• Advanced expertise in stakeholder management, with the ability to establish productive working relationships and influence decision-making across cross-functional teams and clients.
• Advanced experience in utilizing technical fluency to enable on-demand access to shared pools of applications and services.
• Demonstrated proficiency in applying analytical reasoning and problem-solving techniques to break down business, technical, or operational objectives into manageable tasks and activities.
• Good understanding of the banking regulatory landscape in the EMEA region.

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

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.

Digital & Platform Services (DPS)

As an Investment Governance Portfolio Process and Controls Specialist in the Process Control team, you will play a pivotal role in engaging with stakeholders with reporting requirements and supporting the effective implementation of the DPS governance framework. You will be a strategic thinker with excellent communication skills and a strong understanding of financial controls and governance processes, along with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to address ad-hoc queries effectively.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders, includingDigital & Platform ServicesBusiness Managers & Financial Managers, Product Managers, and both External & Internal Audit & Regulators, to ensure alignment and transparency in portfolio governance.
• Utilize strong Alteryx, Tableau, and Excel skills to process various reporting processes within the team.
• Work closely with Planning & Analysis (P&A) teams to ensure that portfolio financials align with P&A control numbers, maintaining accuracy and consistency.
• Serve as the point of contact for key processes such as Benefits review, Hygiene issues, Monthly Estimate (ME) Forecast, and timesheet status, supporting Investor Day, Mid-Year Forecast (MYF), and Annual Planning.
• Learn and guide users onDigital & Platform Servicesprocesses using in-house tools like myIG, PI, and reporting tools such as Cognos, myDATA, and myDPS.
• Address any ad-hoc queries from stakeholders in coordination with Line of Business (LoB) Financial & Business Managers (F&BM's).
• Prepare, consolidate, review, and analyze key financial activities including budget and mid-year forecast, financial updates for the Board, Operating Committee, and Regulators, and analyzing business performance drivers.
• Execute processes with an emphasis on accuracy and timeliness of meeting deliverables on prescribed timetables/calendars.
• Analyze line of business (LOB) business models, earnings sensitivities, and strategic initiatives to enable better understanding of individual LOB financial results.
• Lead additional one-off and repeatable analyses as required by senior management.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• Proven experience in investment governance, portfolio management, or a related field.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to articulate complex investment narratives clearly and concisely.
• Experience with financial controls and alignment processes.
• Proficiency in using reporting and data analysis tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to address ad-hoc queries effectively.
• Previous experience in a Technology finance/planning role in banking or financial services
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel & PowerPoint in particular), Alteryx, and Tableau.
• Self-starter who is driven to excel in all aspects of their role and seeks to break the status-quo and initiate improvements where necessary.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in a Technology finance/planning role in banking or financial services.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, Alteryx, and Tableau.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities.
• Self-starter driven to excel and initiate improvements.

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