Control Manager - Senior Associate

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Columbus, OH +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

This role is for a Control Manager within JPMorgan Chase's Consumer and Community Banking organization, focusing on identifying and mitigating compliance and operational risks. The responsibilities include partnering with stakeholders to analyze risks and controls, designing and monitoring controls using automation, AI, and data analytics, reviewing program data, leading Risk & Control Self-Assessments, and supporting control program projects. The role requires strong financial services experience in controls, audit, or risk management, with an emphasis on analytical thinking, communication, and change management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with and advise stakeholders to analyze risks and controls across the business, proactively find gaps or new risks, and identify root causes to advise solutions.
  2. Design, set up, and monitor controls leveraging automation, AI, and data analytics to build a proactive risk culture.
  3. Review and provide program data (such as KRI/KPI), use analytics and visualization tools, and create reports to support business decisions.
  4. Take active ownership of Risk & Control Self-Assessments by leading process walkthroughs and mapping exercises with different teams.
  5. Lead or support control program projects, ensuring regulatory compliance and addressing key risks, while identifying and driving improvements through new technology.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years working in financial services, with experience in controls, audit, quality assurance, or operational risk management.
  • Risk Management & Controls Independently applies risk management practices in routine situations, voices concerns, executes escalation procedures, and assists others with standard risk matters.
  • Change Management: Utilizes change management resources, applies standard approaches to minimize disruption, supports stakeholders through moderate change, and escalates complex matters when needed.
  • Influence: Influences others using facts and data, facilitates mutually acceptable solutions, engages productively across the business, and escalates complex matters when necessary.
  • Internal Stakeholder Management: Establishes productive relationships with internal stakeholders, communicates proactively, adapts to stakeholder needs, and assists with stakeholder engagement.
  • Communication & Presentation Skills: Independently creates and delivers effective presentations using sound design principles, writes executive summaries and key messages with clarity, and actively listens and summarizes discussions to drive alignment.
  • Teamwork: Accepts responsibility for individual and team outcomes, collaborates across functions, promotes an inclusive environment, and works productively with peers and stakeholders.
  • Knowledge Sharing & Lessons Learned: Independently captures and documents project insights, participates in knowledge sharing, applies lessons learned to improve work quality, and assists others with documentation.
  • Analytical Thinking & Decision Making: Analyzes routine and moderately complex data, critically evaluates information and alternatives, identifies key issues and patterns, engages stakeholders, and delivers timely, fact-based decisions while assisting others with analytical tasks.

Nice to have

  • Process Engineering/Reengineering: Demonstrated expertise in end-to-end process engineering and reengineering—diagnosing control gaps, mapping current/future states, applying Lean Six Sigma to eliminate inefficiency and reduce risk, and designing scalable controls with clear RACI, KPIs/OKRs, and control testing/monitoring plans.
  • Issue/Action Plan Management: Proven ability to lead complex, multi-workstream control issues and action plans from planning through execution—defining scope and milestones, building detailed milestones, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, managing risks/issues/dependencies, and driving on-time delivery with clear status reporting.
  • Policies, Procedures, and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates policy and regulatory knowledge, independently applies standards to protect Client, Firm, and Employee obligations, understands regulatory-control connection, and assists others with interpretation.
  • Data Literacy & Automation Proficiency: Applies data literacy in routine contexts with appropriate controls, identifies and evaluates automation/ML opportunities based on complexity and impact, delivers clear insights and communicates benefits to stakeholders, and assists others with data tasks and automation assessments.

What the JD emphasized

  • compliance
  • operational risks
  • risks and controls
  • control strategies
  • risk culture
  • regulatory compliance
  • key risks
  • Risk Management & Controls
  • Change Management
  • Internal Stakeholder Management
  • Analytical Thinking & Decision Making
  • Process Engineering/Reengineering
  • Issue/Action Plan Management
  • Policies, Procedures, and Regulatory Requirements
  • Data Literacy & Automation Proficiency