JP Morgan - VP - Rule Coding - Compliance Reporting Analyst

Key Accountabilities/Major Responsibilities:

This role will incorporate the following:

Client Focused

Provided with a set of clients, the Compliance Reporting Analyst would be responsible for:

- Investigate investment guideline breaches with the investment manager to assist the client in the breach resolution process.

- Manages diverse stakeholders across different regions and functions including Onshore Operations and OSD teams. Ensure appropriate governance models are established and are driven on a monthly basis.

- Interface with onshore Operations and the Operations Service Delivery (OSD) teams on a continual basis.

- Providing innovative solutions to client requirements (including coding the Compliance Reporting application).

- Maintaining existing fund "rules" within the system and tailoring available solutions to the changing needs of the client in a timely manner.

- Scope client requirements against that of the system and perform maintenance to the client's account.

- Keep upto date with industry practice, product development and evolving regulations.

- Invest in creating subject matter expertise in significantly analytical/complex set of functions.

- Strong control mindset and ability to weave through processes and identify risk and remediate as appropriate.

- Ensure that s/he is able to become a strong subject matter expert on the compliance function.

- Provides a strong path to individuals within the 20+ team and is able to guide/mentor as appropriate.

- Is able to contribute towards the evolution of the team and expected growth. Is able to provide the correct vision to the team and partner sites in an effective manner.

- Eventually become an SME in the process and deliver training sessions and act as a strong - go-to- person in the team & with partners.

Technically Focused

- Concentrate on problem-solving technical and involved requests for clients across the globe, as part of discrete implementations of new business.

- Interpreting investment mandates to identify "rules"

- Agreeing reporting criteria

- Coding identified and agreed "rules" within the Compliance Reporting application

- Logical, problem-solving, technical person would be ideally suited.

The successful candidate will need to either have, or swiftly acquire, knowledge of a myriad of financial instruments, including derivatives.

Key responsibilities:

- Regularly communicate with the Ops and (over the phone and electronically) discussing potential breaches on the investment mandates relating to assigned funds.

- Drive the creation, maintenance and testing of logical rules automatically applied to the financial instruments

Qualifications/Experience/Knowledge

Knowledge and Experience Required:

- Degree in related technical area (such as Finance, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Sciences or Business) advantageous but not essential.

- Qualification involving financial instruments beneficial.

- The successful candidate would have at least two of the following key attributes, demonstrated by suitable experience:

Strong client servicing experience

Coding or report writing experience, ideally with logic-based database systems

Excellent financial market and instrument knowledge

Compliance reporting product knowledge

- All candidates must have:

Excellent written and verbal communication

Strong analytical, organisational and problem solving skills

PC literacy, especially in Microsoft - Excel

Flexibility to work in different shifts and regional models