JPMorgan Markets Legal Regulatory Change Management – Associate 

Argentina, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 

500729327

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 global Markets LRCM Support lead, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Responsibilities of the position include:

Mapping Execution

• 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.
• 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

Regulatory Change activities

The LRCM Global Support team will, in addition to owning obligation–related activity as outlined above, contribute to the LRCM program’s activities. This may include:

• Assessment of the impact of regulatory changes (LATAM-focused)
• MIS / Reporting / Governance material production
• Running the weekly LRCM Triage process for Markets

The scope of these reg change management activities is likely to increase over time.

Qualifications

• A level of familiarity with, and interest in, J.P. Morgan’s Markets products and businesses
• Experience in business controls, operational risk, Compliance, Legal, Audit or similar function with coverage of Markets Sales / Trading businesses
• Understanding of the control framework for Markets businesses would be beneficial
• 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
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced English Level