Market-leading post-trade compliance reporting services for portfolio risk management. J.P. Morgan's market-leading Compliance Reporting Services enables asset managers, fund sponsors and trustees to efficiently detect and manage violations of client-specified investment rules, facilitating risk reduction and demonstrating industry best practices. With more than 200 clients and 6,000 portfolios-including more than 2,000 mutual funds-the firm services a large number of sophisticated investors globally, representing approximately $2 trillion in assets. Our diverse client list includes corporate and public pensions, investment managers, endowments and foundations, corporate cash, insurers and central banks.
Key Accountabilities/Major Responsibilities:
- Investigating all investment guideline/regulatory breaches to assist the client in the breach resolution process.
- Review & recommending a course of action based on the investigation to assist the fund managers to take corrective action.
- Continuous Improvement in the process by providing solutions to reduce the number of false exceptions/violations or optimizing the way we operate
- Interfacing with onshore Operations and the Operations Service Delivery (OSD) teams on a continual basis drive improvement, efficiency in the process
- Providing solutions to reduce the number of false exceptions/violations
- Providing innovative solutions to client requirements and tailoring available solutions to the changing needs of the client in a timely manner.
- Strong control mindset and ability to weave through processes and identify risk and remediate as appropriate.
- Ensure that s/he is able to become a strong subject matter expert on the function and deliver training sessions and act as a strong “go-to” person in the team & with partners
- Logical, problem-solving, technical person would be ideally suited.
- A good understanding of accounting platforms that deliver NAV’s will be a plus.
- Good background in analytical tasks & able to provide solutions to complex asks from end-clients. Providing solutions to reduce the number of false exceptions/violations
- Concentrate on problem-solving technical and involved requests for clients across the globe, as part of discrete implementations of new business.
- Interpreting investment mandates to identify "rules"
- Agreeing reporting criteria with the OSD teams
- Coding identified and agreed "rules" within the Compliance Reporting application
- Regularly communicate with the Ops and OSD teams (over the phone and electronically) discussing potential breaches on the investment mandates relating to assigned funds.
- Create, maintain and test logical rules automatically applied to the financial instruments owned by JPMorgan’s clients.
- Act as a key linkage point with the Product & Development, OSD teams & other stakeholders including audit. Is able to provide an e2e view of the rule coded, whether it is working properly and resultant breaches if any.
- Demonstrates understanding of LOB, Sub-LOB & Groups strategy
- Providing innovative solutions to client requirements (including coding the Compliance Reporting application) in sync with optimization of the rule library in place.
- Is able to appreciate specific client nuances successfully and provide an appropriate & optimal solution to meet objectives.
- Takes ownership of work; drives successful completion of team objectives
- Investigate investment guideline breaches with the investment manager to assist the client in the breach resolution process.
- Delivers on client / client-related commitments with the proper sense of urgency
- Keep up to date with industry practice, product development and evolving regulations.
- Strong control mindset and ability to weave through processes and identify risk and remediate as appropriate.
Skills:
- 7+ years or more in Banking / Financial services industry or with accounting firm.
- Good understanding of security types and their accounting treatment
- Awareness of stock market practices & data vendor systems (e.g. Bloomberg)
- Knowledge of the processes of a fund’s Custodian Bank and Investment Manager
- Analytical with good problem-solving skills
- Committed approach with the ability to communicate effectively with Stakeholders including OSD, Technology, Audit & Change teams
- Self-Drive for identifying & running automation & change initiatives within the process
- Strong analytical, prioritization, organizational, multi-tasking and negotiation skills
- Flexibility - support department projects and work overtime during peak production periods
- Demonstrates a commitment to acquiring new knowledge and skill sets in order to keep skills relevant and expand critical skills to address current and anticipated demands, certifications, training, etc.
- Knowledge of industry developments and trends
- Securities industry knowledge including dividends, principal & interest, corporate actions and trading activity
Knowledge and Experience Required:
- Keep up to date with industry practice, product development and evolving regulations
- Learning the latest the technology tools & skills
- Qualification involving financial instruments
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Problem solving skills
- Experience in managing people, completion of performance reviews and setting objectives
- Demonstrate strong management skills and ability to build key internal relationships across locations
- Strong attention to detail in review of documents and analytical review capabilities
- Experience in managing people, completion of performance reviews and setting objectives
- Demonstrate strong management skills and ability to build key internal relationships across locations
- Strong attention to detail in review of documents and analytical review capabilities
- Degree in related technical area (such as Finance, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Sciences or Business) advantageous but not essential.
- Qualification involving financial instruments beneficial.
- The successful candidate would have at least two of the following key attributes, demonstrated by suitable experience:
- Strong client servicing experience
- Coding or report writing experience, ideally with logic-based database systems
- Excellent financial market and instrument knowledge
- Compliance reporting product knowledge