JPMorgan Securities Services - Product Development Associate 

India, Maharashtra, Mumbai 

252504607

Job Description

· Asset Servicing

· Positions and Settlements

· Tax

· Direct Custody

In this position, within the Product Development team, you will be located in Mumbai and aligned to the Asset Servicing product. You will need to have a good understanding of corporate action and income event processing, and have experience either leading or being involved in the successful delivery of large change projects. You will need to work closely with service providers to ensure a seamless delivery of services to JPMorgan’s client’s, be engaged in defining the Product Development strategy in order to deliver projects on time, and implementing product solutions aligned to the strategic roadmap for the Custody business.

You will work with team members across Global Custody and Clearing, Clients, internal business partners, external vendors and industry utilities to analyse, recommend, design, develop and implement product enhancements and solutions to client requests (as well as market-driven changes). You will be responsible for understanding our competitive deficiencies and for tailoring commercially viable solutions to address these deficiencies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with product leads in Securities Services to design and deliver key asset servicing strategic initiatives
• Provide strong governance across all workstreams, ensuring all partners are aware of key business goals/outcomes
• Work with the Technology team in the development of the strategic platforms & partner with Operations to automate manual workflows
• Coordinate the user testing and rollout of agreed depo functionality and enhancements, managing feedback and implementing additional enhancements based on priorities.
• Manage effective working group meetings across Product, Operations and Technology to deliver on key services and tools
• Participate in and contribute to the broader Securities Services Custody Product Development team-wide forums to identify opportunities for improvement and present those ideas to senior management as well as look to identify control-gaps

Required Qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Ability to analyse and incorporate user needs, business needs, and technical constraints/opportunities into the product development process
• Experience of handling multiple priorities / deadlines without compromising quality
• The ability to define an appropriate product MVP and improve through feedback and iteration
• 5+ years in a Product Management, Product Development, Securities Services Operations, Treasury or Custody environment.
• Be able to progress initiatives in a cross-functional and matrixed organizational model and guide product enhancements through required development, testing, and release management.
• Strong communication and influence management skills, ability to articulate complex ideas and analytics in a succinct way.
• A Key tenet of this role will be implementing strong governance regimes, ensuring the book of work is rigorously accounted for and appropriate controls & oversight are in place. The ideal candidate will have a governance background and a proven track record in the orchestration & administration of supervisory frameworks.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Global Custody Product expertise is a plus
• Global asset servicing knowledge
• Previous Project management or Business Analyst experience would be an advantage
• Lead design workshops and brainstorming sessions – comfortable with public speaking