As a Global Testing Manager Vice President in Project RIO operations team, you will implement Project RIO as a global middle office program which aim is to establish strategic common global operating model for core elements of JPMAM’s (J.P.Morgan Asset Management) Investment Operations, leveraging CIB (Corporate and Investment Bank) Core Middle Office Services and thereby reducing JPMAM’s operational and technology complexity as well as enhancing service to our global and complex clients, achieving economies of scale and reduction in expense ratio as business grows, reducing effort required to add new product capabilities and to improve timeliness and quality of global data.
Job responsibilities
- Partners up with the Global Testing Manager for the outsourcing program with accountability for the successful readiness of the system and processes supporting the future strategic operating model
- Acts as a key liaison between all functional teams (Solutioning Team, Operations and Middle Office, Testing COE team, Technology), the service provider and the internal program team
- Establishes, manages, and executes testing strategy
- Coordinates with all technology and operational workstreams on deriving test cases
- Oversees all aspects of testing – Test case preparation, Testing Resources, Reference Data, Environments, Scheduling, Scripted Testing, Defect Management, Entitlements
- Establishes and govern all entry and exit criteria of various testing phases
- Develops, implements & monitors performance metrics to ensure the quality and efficiency in implementing the initiatives
- Partners closely with global & location/region managers to establish consistency and best practices and provide thought leadership
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Extensive relevant project management experience
- Experience in product life cycle activities including discovery and requirements definition
- Knowledge of data analytics and data literacy
- Strong financial product knowledge including Equity, Fixed Income, Currency, Derivatives and Funds Investment
- An understanding of Investment Accounting, Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, Collateral and Custody
- Project Management experience with the ability to manage initiatives end to end
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Asset Management or relevant Investment Banking, Wealth Management experience desired but not mandatory
- Experience in Investment Accounting / Middle Office