Job Description
Excited by the opportunity to build innovative digital retail banking products and services in a start-up environment, backed by one of the leading financial service providers worldwide?
Join us at JPMorgan & Chase Co. at our newest European hub for Chase bank, located in the heart of Berlin. In this exciting chapter of continued growth and expansion for Chase, we're looking for an AML Transaction Monitoring Coverage Strategist.
As an AML Transaction Monitoring Coverage Strategist within the Coverage Strategy team, you will be responsible for ensuring that the AML risks associated with our products, services, and customers across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) are adequately monitored. Your role will involve designing, developing, and maintaining monitoring coverage, as well as documenting the rationale for monitoring. You will also support ongoing processes such as typology and scenario reviews, threshold tuning, and customer segmentation. A key part of your role will be maintaining close contact with Lines of Business (LOB) and Compliance stakeholders to ensure a clear understanding of the monitoring strategies required to comply with local regulations and mitigate risk. You will assist in organizing team deliverables, drafting and presenting documentation for senior management discussions, regulatory exams, and audits. Additionally, you will contribute to monitoring initiatives across LOBs and regions.
Job responsibilities:
- Understand the products, services and customers for consumer banking and how they transact and the risks presented
- Work with Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) and the MLRO function to ensure coverage of the risks identified in the AML and Sanctions Risk Assessment
- Identify and develop solutions to capitalize upon monitoring opportunities
- Work with Compliance Technology to identify requirements that support the implementation of monitoring strategies
- Analyse data and determine appropriate monitoring coverage and alerting threshold levels, with support from Compliance Technology and Analytics teams
- Prepare metrics, charts and presentations when needed to explain the AML Transaction Monitoring Program to various stakeholders
- Support project plans and deliverables often tied to regulatory commitments
- Facilitate the documentation, delivery and escalation of internal audits and regulatory exam requests
- Draft and/or maintain Coverage Strategy procedures, composing updates and assuring adherence to firm-wide standards
- Develop training modules on systemic monitoring platforms and coverage
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong knowledge of the German regulatory financial crime requirements
- Strong research and analytical/statistics skills to analyse Big Data
- Expertise in Microsoft Excel and/or more advanced data/statistical applications and proficient in MS Office
- Strong problem solving, organizational, time management, and planning skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills necessary to work effectively with people at all levels in the organization
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including proficiency in concisely summarising complex topics
- Strong English language skills
- Ability to make decisions, multi-task and prioritise tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Degree level education (or equivalent) or direct relevant work experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Digital Banking experience
- Experience in assessing risk and making sound decisions in relation to ML/TF, with ability to escalate when appropriate
- Knowledge of consumer banking
- Strong German language skills
About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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 our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
