JP Morgan Chase - Vice President - Fund Accounting Manager - Securities Services Operations

About J.P. Morgan:

JPMorgan Chase & Co. 9NYSE: JPM0 is a leadng global financial services firm with assest of $2.7 trillion, over 240,000 employees and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and Asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serbes millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its JP Morgan and Chase brands. Information abiut JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com

J.P. Morgan Securities Services Operations:

J.P. Morgan's Securities ervices Teams services clients across a global custody network spanning 100 markets with cusotdy and asset servicing, fund accounting and administration, agency lending, collateral management and depositary receipt solutions. The Fund Accounting team is responsible for timely and accurate delivery of NAV for Clients who have outsourced their Fund Accounting to JPMorgan. This role involves understanding and executing end to end activities that comprises of NAV calculation and end of the day client reporting.

Role Description:

We are looking for a highly skilled, motivated and experienced Fund Accounting Vice President who will be responsible for providing direction and leadership in coordinating and monitoring Fund Accounting/Reporting/Regulatory activities to ensure timely and accurate creation, review and delivery of the work. The role also requires candidate to have strong stake holder management and collaboration skills to ensure all deliverables are met on time and as per agreed service level agreements and regulatory deadlines.

The successful candidate must have proven track record of having held leadership positions involving large scale functions and experience in Fund Accounting, setting up new functions from scratch. She/He should have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, applied to both daily operations of the unit as well as partnering with senior stakeholders to develop, implement and manage strategic program throughout Fund Services Operations.

The candidate will be working in the WHEM shift and diversity candidate will be preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

- Leading the team and providing guidance to Associates and staff on treatment of complex transactions in a pre & post Nav scenario to ensure proper identification of issues and responsible for delivering it accurately on time.

- Understanding of Custody and Fund accounting business and underlying products associated with it so She/He can effectively execute workflow changes.

- Perform the root cause analysis of breaks and work with stakeholders to eliminate it from the root.

- Oversee and manage end to end process, audit planning with extended internal teams and partner locations globally & understand accounting product offerings & client SLA requirements.

- Acting as a primary contact for inquiries from partner sites/clients requests and ad-hoc projects on fund accounting issues & ensure MIS and escalations are completed in a timely manner to senior management locallay and in partner sites

- While running risk and control agenda, to actively participate in audits with multiple departments and responding to internal and externa, inquiries.

- Assisting in developing and adjusting department procedures, system enhancements and achieving department's efficiency goals apart from maintaining and tracking SLAs/KPIs and provide update in governance calls.

- To ensure location strategy and business resiliency plan is fully functional and tested periodically.

- Managing time bound Tech and Ops driven projects/change management with close partnership with stakeholders in order to make Ops functions more efficient and risk free.

- Stakeholder management- Effective communication and regular status reporting to key business stakeholders.

Operational Excellence & Innovation:

- The candidate will be required to drive innovative solutions for efficient operations and prioritize key technology enhancements

- She/He will be responsible to identify project opportunities which will lead to significant business impact leading to financial saves, best practise sharing, reduce both manual effort and risk.

- She/he will be required to efficiently manage expenses and facilitate ways to reduce them to support business growth in cost effective manner.

- The candidate should convert knowledge of industry, business into a competetive advantage.

Operating Model:

- Drive strong focus on building strong synergies across functions.

- Participate in designing optimal operating model across functions as business continues to evolve.

- Ensure strong management coverage and oversight on resiliency, management bandwidth with right span of control.

- Institute a strong governance framework locally in the region and metrics which are consistent with the globe to ensure strong focus on quality, delivery and enhancing client experience.

People Management:

- Build a strong and transparent culture for staff based on meritocracy.

- Advance inclusive leadership by supporting diversity & inclusion agenda, training, performance management, networking, mobility and mentoring

- Candidate will be required to engage, motivate and influence direct reports, teams, peers to enhance overall stake holders/employee engagement.

- Candidate will also be required proactively with functional partners and human resources team to improve retention, hiring, attrition and overtime.

- Coaching, developing and mentoring staff including formal objective setting, performance reviews and providing ongoing and regular feedback.

Risk & Control:

- Candidate will be responsible for building a strong Risk aware/controls focussed operation.

- Work closely with business partners and Controls Managers in driving/implementing an effective, robust proactive and sustainable controls program to proactively manage risks to the business.

Experience, Qualification & Skill Set:

- 12 to 15 years of Fund Accounting experience in Mutual/Pension/Hedge Fund Accounting Industry

- The candidate should ideally have experience in management of large teams and should preferably be a CA/MBA (Finance)

- Strong technical understanding of the Investment industry including an overview of various regulatory requirements and accounting standards.

- Strong business knowledge on FS products, processes and systems.

- Excellent attention to detail and an ability to know when a deep dive approach is appropriate.

- Ability to drive results through a hands-on approach

- Skilled in identifying talent, recruiting, coaching, mentoring and developing team members.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and adapt to communicate with all levels of the business and technical parts of the organization.

- Able to operate in a dynamic environment with tight deadlines and can prioritize one's own and teams work to achieve them.

- Ability to partner with demanding stakeholders, managing their expectations while developing strong working relationship with them.

- Understanding of oeprational risks and related controls, audit and internal control framework

- Ability in decision-making and problem-solving

- Confidence to challenge and be challenged whilst remaining in a positive 'can-do' outlook

- Well versed with the Industry automation tools and should have demonstrated working on these tools to make processes more efficient or build robust controls

About us :

JPMorgan Chase & Co., 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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

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