Payments Screening Associate

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
As part of Digital & Platform Services, at Global Screening Operations, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risk, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

**Job Summary**:
The Sanctions Escalations team plays a critical role in the successful execution of the firm's compliance mission by implementing the requirements and standards for the Firm's Enterprise-Wide Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions programs. Additionally, they support Global CIB payments responsibilities to protect the organization and to fulfill the Bank’s Sanctions related regulatory requirement.

**Responsibilities**:

- Understanding and implementation of Global Sanctions standards, guidelines, policies and procedures. Perform research on transactions stopped on the firm’s sanctions screening systems to establish if any true matches to sanctioned entities
- Reviewing transactions for potential sanctions issues. Perform the necessary research and query to determine the sanctions requirements across regions.
- Have the initiative to find information to substantiate an opinion. Where required, be able to provide recommendations on Sanctions processes
- Substantiate an opinion and disposition with adequate documentation. Participate and/or Drive project in implementing OFAC/Sanctions initiatives including quality, control, procedure reviews and implementation of screening process for new business initiatives
- Strive to maintain individual and team throughput and quality targets. Direct oversight of a team including the day-to-day management ensuring that the thru put of work is to the required standards expected (Applies to People managers only)
- Coaching and mentoring of the Core Processing Analysts on a daily basis (Applies to People managers only). Documenting and escalation of any issues and concerns to the Senior Management. Understanding of all the risk and controls partners as it pertains to the team. Execution of any expected work
- Proactively highlight potential issues to management. Drive Process improvements and implement process changes as necessary. Identify root causes, understand connections and implications and evaluate alternatives
- Making decisions that are effective and well-grounded based on guidelines, policies, and insights. Create an effective and efficient team through continuous communication, timely feedback, and appropriate supervisory practices
- Selection, performance management, and overall development of employees within their assigned team (Applies to People managers only)
- Weekend coverage, Holiday support and overtime required as per the business need

**Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities**:

- A minimum of 8-10 years experience working in the Financial Services industry with a demonstrated track-record of delivery and/or relevant experience in Compliance
- Self-motivated and proactive with the proven ability to work accurately and under pressure to meet deadlines
- Ability to maintain high quality in a risk intensive environment
- Outstanding client management, partnership building, leadership and direct experience of dealing with multiple stakeholders at one time
- Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively with colleagues and senior management
- Strong relationship building skills to influence/negotiate desired outcome
- Ability to deep-dive and investigate issues to see a successful resolution and broker the solution to applicable key managers
- Knowledge of SWIFT messaging and payment transactions is preferred. Demonstrate cross-line of business knowledge of banking systems and products
- Experience with the build out and execution of a new team or procedures, ability to identify risks and issues and successfully navigate through to completion
- Strong leader who can has experience with managing medium to large teams in an operational environment, able to show direction and guidance on a regular basis
- Proven track record of ongoing coaching, educating and directing a team, ideally has experience with leading a new team where there is limited knowledge in place and needs to be developed over time.
- Possess strong computer skills: Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Payment Operations/AML/OFAC or Compliance experience mandatory
- The role holder will be required to operate flexible working hours to cover early starts and/or late finishes as demanded by the business
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or any similar disciplines

**ABOUT US**

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most p