Payment Lifecycle Associate

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
Take a lead role in acquiring, managing and retaining meaningful relationships that deliver outstanding experience to our customers. In this role, you will balance your focus on business results by offering options and finding solutions to help our customers with issues.

**Job Summary**:
As a Payment Lifecycle Associate within JPMorgan Chase, you will be integral to maintaining the company's strength and resilience. You will be part of the Sanctions Escalations team, which is essential in executing the firm's compliance mission by adhering to the requirements and standards of the Firm's Enterprise-Wide Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions programs. Furthermore, the team supports Global Corporate and Investment Banking payments responsibilities to safeguard the organization and meet the Bank’s sanctions-related regulatory requirements.

**Responsibilities**:

- Understand and implement Global Sanctions standards, guidelines, policies, and procedures.
- Perform research on transactions stopped on the firm’s sanctions screening systems to establish true matches to sanctioned entities.
- Review transactions for potential sanctions issues.
- Conduct necessary research and queries to determine sanctions requirements across regions.
- Take initiative to find information to substantiate opinions.
- Provide recommendations on Sanctions processes where required.
- Substantiate opinions and dispositions with adequate documentation.
- Participate in and promote projects implementing OFAC/Sanctions initiatives, including quality control, procedure reviews, and screening processes for new business initiatives.
- Strive to maintain throughput and quality targets.
- Document and escalate issues and concerns to Senior Management. Understand all risk and controls partners as they pertain to the team.

**Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities**:

- A minimum of 10 years experience working in the Financial Services industry with a demonstrated track-record of delivery and/or relevant experience in Compliance
- 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. 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
- 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**

JPMorganChase, 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**

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.