Finance and Business Management Project Manager - Associate

Ready to shape how a global financial institution runs its Finance function? This is your opportunity to lead complex, high-visibility programs from requirements through implementation, working shoulder-to-shoulder with Finance, Technology, and Operations leaders. You'll turn ambiguity into clear specifications, drive delivery end-to-end, and see your work directly improve accuracy, controls, and efficiency across the firm. If you thrive in a fast-moving, matrixed environment and enjoy solving problems that matter, we'd like to hear from you.

As a Finance and Business Management Project Manager – Associate in Finance within the Corporate & Investment Bank, you will manage a broad portfolio of initiatives—from multi-year programs such as strategic system replacements, new product launches, and branch buildouts, to ongoing process improvements. The team’s objectives you will support are to:

• Define and translate Finance requirements by partnering with Finance subject matter experts to develop functional specifications and communicate needs to technology teams.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships with the core project team, regional and corporate finance, operations, technology partners, and business clients.
• Lead delivery end-to-end across testing and implementation to ensure solutions are accurate and delivered on time for users.

Job responsibilities

• Analysis: Elicit, document, and translate Finance business requirements into functional specifications; develop/review the end-to-end operating model; define requirements for controlled reference data migration and the setup of legal entities and product system feeds into the target Finance environment.
• Testing: Partner with the Program Test Manager to create the test strategy, plans, scripts, and data; ensure requirements and operating model are fully validated; drive resolution of issues identified during testing.
• General: Coordinate project and migration activities with Business Lead and Project Manager; support training delivery; identify and manage risks; maintain up-to-date documentation in the project repository; manage and coach junior BAs.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrates a solid understanding of Finance functions, end-to-end processes, and how Finance requirements translate into technology and platform outcomes.
• Applies working knowledge of the regional Finance operating model and key process flows, including governance and stakeholder touchpoints.
• Brings practical project lifecycle experience, including planning, governance, controls, RAID management, and status reporting.
• Demonstrates proven business analysis skills: requirements gathering, documentation, operating model and process analysis, and translating needs into clear deliverables.
• Builds relationships and influences effectively across Finance, Operations, and Technology within a matrixed environment.
• Produces crisp written updates and executive-ready status reporting, and facilitates meetings effectively.
• Identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks and issues with a control-minded approach to delivery.
• Applies Finance and accounting acumen, including a controllers mindset and awareness of financial reporting impacts and controls.
• Supports test strategy, UAT coordination, defect triage, and cutover readiness.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Holds an accounting or project management qualification.
• Demonstrates awareness of line-of-business systems, middle-office operations, and adjacent products/solutions (e.g., iDDA, Cash Management) and how they feed Finance.
• Applies data and systems literacy, including data flows, reference data, reconciliations, and basic SQL/Excel where relevant.
• Contributes to change management activities, including training support, communications, and adoption tracking.

About JPMorgan Chase: JPMorgan Chase has been doing first-class business in a first-class way for more than two hundred years. We have been a leader in helping companies grow and markets develop throughout our history. We collaborate across the globe to deliver the solutions and advice to meet our clients’ needs, anywhere in the world. We operate in 100 countries and hold global leadership positions across our businesses. We have an exceptional team of employees who work hard to do the right thing for our clients and the firm every day. This is why we can offer you an outstanding career.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.