Job summary:

Welcome to JP Morgan Chase. Are you a compliance specialist, passionate about risk mitigation and safeguarding the financial institutions and customers from the financial crime ? Are you a team player who demonstrates strong analytical skills, sound judgement and the highest degree of confidentiality in handling information? You have found the right team.

As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase 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 Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class. 

The Global Financial Crime Compliance  Alert Triage Associate position is part of the firm’s India Anti Money Laundering Alert Triage team within AML Crime Investigations.  The Triage team dispositions alerts consistent with the Global AML Standards, provides an initial assessment of potential Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing as well as other nefarious activity and recommends alerts for escalation and further review or closure with relevant documentation.

Job responsibilities: 

Manage and drive the continued and ongoing build out of the India AML Transaction monitoring Operations Team, identifying areas that need change to improve the daily output of the team. Proactively gather and coordinate any changes to the firms AML policies / processes with Compliance or LOB Operations and AML-Transaction monitoring. Detailed knowledge / subject matter expertise of AML processes, Technology, Case Management and products / services. Learn and understand the existing procedures in place and support training execution for expansion and build out of Hyderabad.  Direct oversight of 7 to 9 member team including the day to day management of 1-2 Team Leads, ensuring that the throughput of work is to the required standards expected. Coaching and Mentoring Team.Manage the group ensuring the team properly collect and document data, including  alerting activity, account information, transactional data, KYC information, politically exposed person (PEP) status, adverse media as well as counterparty and any other required information to assist in the investigationRegularly evaluate Alert Triage Analysts analysis of alerts for proper identification of AML, Terrorist Financing (TF), Human Trafficking and other red flags to assess whether escalation or closure with no further action decisions are accurateBuild relationships with AML Investigations units and effectively communicate and transfer information for case investigations. Develop excellent relationships with the other AML Transaction monitoring Locations across APAC, EMEA and North America. Participate or lead other AML Transaction monitoring or LOB aligned initiatives as necessary. Documenting and escalation of any issues and concerns to the AML Senior Management.Understanding of all the risk and controls partners (Quality Assurance, Quality Testing, Controls and the RCSA process) as it pertains to the team. Execution of any expected work.Occasional travel and overtime may be required.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Qualified graduate with minimum of 14 plus years of relevant experience in the Financial Services industry with a demonstrated track-record of delivery and/or relevant experience in Compliance- AML Transaction monitoring. Outstanding client management, partnership building, leadership and direct experience of dealing with multiple stakeholders at one time. Strong relationship building skills to influence/negotiate desired outcomes. Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively with colleagues and senior management. Strong verbal/written communicationAbility to deep-dive and investigate issues to see a successful resolution. Self-reliance and willingness to "own" problems and creatively find solutionsExperience with the build out and execution of a new team or procedures, ability to identify risks and issues and successfully navigate through to completion. Proven track record of ongoing coaching, educating and directing a team, ideally has experience with leading a new team where there is limited knowledge in place and needs to be developed over time. 

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

CAMS Certification would be highly preferred