CIB| Business Analysis Manager|Vice President

J.P. Morgan s Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) is a global leader across banking, markets and investor services. The world s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $18 trillion of assets under custody and $3+3 billion in deposits, the Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

Department Description

Markets Transformation Group is a dedicated team of project and client facing resources that are focused on delivering against large scale change initiatives that span across business units to address Industry, Business and Client requirements across the FICC organization. The group provides a unique mix of project skills and product experience that are not tied to a specific business unit enabling it to provide a consistent, high-quality and responsive approach to the way we manage and execute change across the Corporate & Investment Bank.

This Strategic Program is a multi-year Initiative under Markets Transformation Group. The Initiative is focused on re-engineering and consolidating all components of the Rates, Credit, Commodities, Equities and FX Businesses across Front, Middle and Back Offices as well as the Technology footprint in supporting each. This role is specific to the Rates/Credit/Equities Implementation.

The Team

The team provides end to end technology solutions for the firm's Investment Banking, Sales & Trading and Risk Management business areas. Working closely with Technology, the Middle Office, Finance and Business management, the team is responsible for defining and implementing Rates Athena across multiple work streams including transaction management and life-cycle events, reference data, and core feeds.

There is a strategic platform for processing and risk managing securities and derivatives in the Investment Bank. It is currently used by the FX, Commodities and Rates businesses globally. It is responsible for product modeling, trade capture, risk, event and position management, providing the books and records to the bank for trades and feeding downstream back office systems such as accounting, settlements, legal documentation and regulatory reporting. The products managed on this platform range from high volume listed and flow derivative products to extremely complex over-the-counter structured and securitized derivatives.

This is an opportunity to join an adaptable team with strong business sponsorship, diverse skill set, and a track record in delivering innovative forward thinking and ultimately revenue enhancing solutions to the Rates/CEM and Credit businesses.

Job Responsibilities / Role:
• Manage medium sized team of Projects Managers, Business Analysts & Testers working on varied projects.
• Provide leadership to team members and peers and hold self/team accountable for results.
• Subject Matter Expert on Derivatives asset class.
• Lead or participate in multiple global/regional Implementation projects simultaneously.
• Create and maintain project schedules by developing project plans and specifications, estimating time and resources, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Manage Stakeholder expectations with regular updates on project progress and highlight Risk/dependencies and path to resolution.
• Senior Management Communication on progress, risk etc.
• Resolve escalated Risks, Assumptions and Issues management
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Front Office/Middle Office/Back Office/Finance and other functional groups
• Gather/documents/review user requirements across user groups.
• Collaborate with technology leads to devise implementation strategy/resolve issues.
• Work closely with developers to deliver build/track/test Jiras.
• Provide project level analysis producing required project analysis documentation (requirements, scope matrix, use cases, flow diagrams, proposals, UAT plan, migration plan, Runbook etc.)
• End to End Test management including creation of automation scripts, defect & Gap analysis etc.