APAC Legal Entity Risk Management - Associate

As part of Risk and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorganChase strong and resilient. You help the Firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk and Compliance is all about thinking creatively and providing constructive challenge to enhance risk insights and drive more effective risk management. 
 

As an Associate within Legal Entity Risk Management, APAC, you will report to the APAC Legal Entity Risk Team lead and support the Chief Risk Officers (CRO) and Legal Entity Risk Managers (LERM) for Australia and certain Southeast Asia locations such as Malaysia and Philippines. You will involve in further developing and implementing the entity’s risk governance structure to enable effective execution of the Firmwide and Legal Entity Risk Management framework. You will collaborate with various Risk functions including but not limited to Market, Credit, Liquidity Risk, and Operational Risk, as well as Compliance, Business, Control and other functional teams, while gaining a solid understanding and oversight of the entity’s risk profile and emerging risk themes. You will also build meaningful partnerships with key functional stakeholders at various levels within the Firm.

Job Responsibilities

• Implement an effective risk governance structure for APAC legal entities (LE).
• Engage proactively on regulatory deliverables, examinations and requests pertaining to risk governance and cross-risk stripes.
• Partner with key functional teams to assess and address applicable regulatory changes impacting Risk, including emerging risk themes. (E.g. AI and data governance, climate risk, etc.)
• Support adherence to internal risk policies, procedures, frameworks and external risk related regulations. This includes maintenance and oversight of LE Risk governance documents such as the Risk appetite framework, Risk governance frameworks and Risk Committee charter.
• Perform secretariat function for location risk committees, including driving the committee forward calendar, committee minutes preparation and review of materials submitted.
• Partner with regional and global risk teams, as required, which includes leading or participating in projects / initiatives impacting Risk Management.
• Work with other LE Risk team members to support CROs/Legal Entity Risk Managers (LERMs) in the APAC region.
• Contribute to the resolution and escalation of risk oversight issues.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills 

• Bachelor’s degree

• Minimum 5 years of experience in risk management, compliance, finance or control management in the financial services industry.

• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely to audiences at all levels of seniority.

• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to work under pressure and manage time and priorities effectively with minimal supervision.

• Good analytical, interpersonal, ability to influence and collaborate; organized, motivated, and proactive, with a willingness to take initiative.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills 

• Practical understanding of risk types and risk management strategies.

• Regulatory experience or relevant experience in a similar role at another institution.

• Experience with data analytics tools or AI/automation initiatives.