Location: EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, United Kingdom

Drive impact at JPMorganChase! Join our Incident and Client Advisory team to lead risk, shape onboarding, and champion excellence.

Join our dynamic Incident and Client Advisory team, where your passion for implementing and overseeing controls can make a significant impact. At J.P. Morgan Chase, we offer career growth opportunities, skill development, and the chance to be part of a team that values your contributions.

As a KYC/AML Reputation Risk Escalation Vice President in Incident & Client Advisory (ICA) Team, you will support all aspects of the client Onboarding process that includes the fulfilment of Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Client (KYC) requirements for the Wealth Management division of J.P Morgan Chase & Co, Asset & Wealth Management business segment. You will ensure that all prospects are on-boarded in accordance with the strategy of the Asset & Wealth Management business segment and that financial crime risks and reputational risks of prospects and existing clients are assessed appropriately. You will make independent recommendations regarding AML risk and escalations as first line of defense.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance to Bankers on reputational and financial crime risk concerns and collaborate with them for submissions to the Reputational Risk Committee and AML Forum/Committee.
• Partner with Bankers to prepare submissions to the Client Review Forum, addressing risk tolerance and client fit.
• Work with Global Financial Crime Compliance and Risk functions on client issues posing financial crime and reputational risk.
• Review overnight screening alerts and determine appropriate dispositions.
• Coordinate with ICA global counterparts on issues, findings, and practices that leads to best in class
• Ensure high-quality process outputs, adhering to procedures and internal quality standards, and escalate issues as needed.
• Drive effective issue resolution within policy boundaries, ensuring cases meet service level agreements.
• Handle sensitive client data confidentially.
• Adhere to documented process/quality controls with high accuracy.
• Conduct training and awareness sessions for Front Office, new hires and staff refreshers.
• Coordinate with compliance and control functions for regulatory audits/requests/initiatives.

 

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Proven experience in KYC/AML.
• Broad knowledge of rules and regulations for various EMEA jurisdictions
• Strong organizational skills, including prioritization.
• Strong risk and controls awareness.
• Ability to identify and focus on issues holistically while being detail-oriented and independent in analysis.
• Adaptable to a fast-paced environment with multitasking capabilities and escalation handling.
• Proactive and takes initiative to assist the team.

 

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Strong knowledge of wealth management business/private banking.
• Experience in handling AML escalations.
• Excellent team player, open-minded, and willing to share information, knowledge, and expertise.

 

Drive impact at JPMorganChase! Join our Incident and Client Advisory team to lead risk, shape onboarding, and champion excellence.