Risk Management - Wealth Management Trust and Estates Vice President

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · New York, NY +1 · Asset & Wealth Management

This role is within JPMorgan Chase's Risk Management division, focusing on Wealth Management Trust and Estates. The Vice President will provide independent oversight and challenge of fiduciary and investment risks, utilizing data-driven insights and potentially machine learning techniques to identify themes, assess exposures, and support decision-making. The role involves risk reporting, enhancing processes, and partnering with business and control functions to ensure a well-controlled risk environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the legal entity risk coverage lead for designated trust company entities, supporting board and committee engagement and providing updates on key issues and risk challenges
  2. Provide independent review and credible challenge in Trusts and Estates business committees, issuing “no objection” outcomes when appropriate and escalating significant matters
  3. Identify fiduciary and investment risk themes across United States and international activity and recommend actions that reduce exposure
  4. Conduct secondary reviews of discretionary trust accounts, focusing on thematic analyses and outliers identified through risk metrics
  5. Design analytics approaches that integrate investment, product, regulatory, and best-practice perspectives into actionable insights for senior leaders

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance or a related field
  • 7 years of Trusts and Estates experience within Risk Management, Compliance, Legal, Audit, or consulting
  • Familiarity with Trusts and Estates law, fiduciary investments, fiduciary products, and relevant governance and control practices
  • Understanding of regulations and best practices applicable to fiduciary activities and investment oversight
  • Experience providing independent oversight and credible challenge in committee and stakeholder settings
  • Strong analytical skills, including ability to perform thematic reviews and interpret risk metrics to identify outliers and trends
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present clear updates and recommendations to senior stakeholders
  • Strong collaboration skills across Risk, the Business, Legal, Compliance, Audit, and Control Management
  • Sound judgment and attention to detail in evaluating fiduciary risks and control effectiveness
  • Willingness to learn and apply machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques in business-as-usual risk activities

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting board, audit committee, or risk committee governance for trust company entities
  • Experience building and maintaining interactive dashboards or automated risk reporting for senior stakeholders
  • Experience applying machine learning or data science methods in risk oversight, surveillance, or account review use cases
  • Familiarity with donor-advised fund platforms and related fiduciary and operational risks
  • Experience partnering with technology and data teams to improve data quality, governance, and reporting infrastructure

What the JD emphasized

  • independent oversight
  • credible challenge
  • fiduciary risk
  • investment risk
  • risk themes
  • risk reporting
  • risk assessment
  • risk data