Asset Management - Asia Operations Project Manager - Executive Director (6-Month FTC)
JP Morgan ChaseMong Kok, KowloonUpdate time: April 25,2019
Job Description
Job Description
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with assets of more than $2.7 trillion, over 240,000 employees and operations in over 60 countries. It operates across four business segments including Asset & Wealth Management, Corporate and Investment Banking, Commercial Banking and Consumer and Community Banking.
J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, is a global leader in investment and wealth management. Its clients include institutions, high-net-worth individuals and retail investors in every major market throughout the world. The division offers investment management across all major asset classes including equities, fixed income, alternatives, multi-asset and money market funds. For individual investors, the business also provides retirement products and services, brokerage and banking services including trusts and estates, loans, mortgages and deposits.
Asset Management is a leading investment manager of choice for institutions, financial intermediaries and individual investors, worldwide. With a heritage of more than two centuries, a broad range of core and alternative strategies, and investment professionals operating in every major world market, we offer investment experience and insight that few other firms can match.
The Role
As a Project Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the successful design and execution of a key business strategy – system migrations to the outsourced of Fund Administration and Transfer Agency services in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Key Responsibilities
This regional position is responsible for providing strategic leadership & management for the outsourcing of back and certain middle office functions to a service provider, supporting a business that has ambitious long term plans for growth in a highly competitive, complex environment.
- Overall Hong Kong lead for the outsourcing program with accountability for Design/Manage/Implement of the HK & TW roadmap
- Business liaison between all HK & TW functional teams (Sales, CS, CAO, Compliance, Legal, Operations, Tech, Finance and other control functions), the service provider and the internal program team
- Work closely with business partners and other operational leaders and be able to influence business decisions to determine future strategic operating model
- Work closely with technology and senior operational leaders to implement the migrations in Hong Kong / Taiwan:
- Establish and manage appropriate governance, leadership and resources around all aspects of running the initiatives (e.g. regulatory, risk, financial, people, technology)
- Ensure effective communication and escalation on overall program status, implementation plans, management issues, priorities and risks
- Monitor and enhance the control processes surrounding operations functions to proactively manage risk
- Develop, implement & monitor performance metrics to ensure the quality and efficiency in implementing the initiatives
- Ensure that the initiatives maximize impact and effectiveness while meeting financial targets
- Partner closely with global & location/region managers to establish consistency and best practices and provide thought leadership
- Align the function to maximize impact and effectiveness while meeting financial targets
Qualifications
The successful candidate will be a demonstrated leader with a proactive, hands-on management approach and strong operational skills with the following skills:
- 8+ years of relevant project management experience, with experience in Fund Accounting or Transfer Agency
- Proved ability and experience in implementing large strategic initiatives with significant technology and operational component
- Strong sense of prioritization & ability to execute against deliverables. Able to take personal accountability for projects & issue resolution
- Extensive experience driving process change and efficiencies in a growing business – strong focus on execution and delivery against objectives
- Analytic problem solver with excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Proven ability to build strong, cohesive partnerships with the business, operations, technology & other key stakeholders and work effectively in a matrix organization
- Be able to lead, motivate and get the very best out of a high performing team of operations professionals
- Ability to challenge and influence stakeholders to ensure decisions are well thought out and can be executed from an operations perspective
- Financial and budgeting skills
- Excellent understanding of the investment process and associated market practices with the ability to think strategically about how to create business led solutions
- Product knowledge of Investment management product offerings e.g., Mutual Funds, etc.
- Bachelors degree (or equivalent) required
- Language Competencies – English, Mandarin and Cantonese
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