Associate, Legal Obligations and Compliance Risk

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
As a Control Management Associate, you'll be responsible for ensuring the line of business has a sustainable and disciplined end-to-end control environment, identifying and escalating issues with a sense of urgency, and partnering with the business to ensure issues are remediated in a timely manner. The team assists in top-down risk analysis, real-time control issue detection, escalation, root cause analysis, and remediation.

The Chief Administrative Office (CAO) is comprised of multiple global functions that support the firm's businesses in 60 countries, including Global Real Estate, Global Supplier Services, Global Business & Document Services, Amenity Services, Corporate Insurance, Global Security, Corporate Aviation and Finance and Business Management.

The CAO Controls team’s primary function is to solidify an effective Firm-wide control framework, looking within and across its functions, to identify and remediate control issues with a sense of urgency regardless of the source. CAO Controls team will work in partnership with the Control Managers across CAO to provide a centralized view of all control functions, assisting in immediate, real time problem detection, reporting and escalation by utilizing the firm’s operational risk self‐assessment reporting process & system (CORE: Control and Operational Risk Evaluation). The team also support various firmwide control programs and operational risk initiatives.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support and oversee the implementation of Office of Legal Obligations (“OLO”) and Compliance Risk Assessment (“CRA”) across CAO & its multiple corporate functions
- Participate on cross-functional teams to develop and maintain legal obligations
- Responsible for the identification and ongoing management of those Risks and the design, execution, and evaluation of the associated mitigating Controls for CRA
- Prepare, and maintain on an ongoing basis, matrices and other job aids to support program reporting and project tracking
- Research and analyze laws, rules, regulations and prior project work in order to promote evergreen efforts of the Program, focusing on quality assurance and consistency
- Serve as a Program liaison through collaborative advocacy and excellent oral and written communication skills and work with legal, compliance, risk, and oversight and controls teams responsible for parts of the Program, as needed
- Flexible, adaptable to shifting regulatory and legal landscape; able to work in a global, fast-paced, results driven environment

**Required qualifications, skills and capabilities**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
- 3-5+ years in either financial service experience in controls, audit, quality assurance, risk management, or compliance preferred
- Strong leadership skills and experience working in matrix-reporting work environments
- Research, writing skills, deck design and presentation skills
- Proficient knowledge of control and risk management concepts with the ability to design, create, and evaluate a Risk & Control Self-Assessment in conjunction with business partners
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), knowledge of tools Alteryx, Tableau is a plus

**Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities**:

- Knowledge Operational Risk, Controls, Regulations preferred
- Ability to translate business/functional problems into a conceptual analytical solutions
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage all facets of Program Management

**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 prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of o