Securities Services - Cash Product Development - Associate in Bournemouth

You will be responsible for leading key strategic projects from the EMEA region and support the broader global Cash, Liquidity and Foreign Exchange Product Development team. Expectation would be to continuously develop industry/product knowledge around Cash and leverage the same to define target end state for Cash capabilities, translating it into a delivery roadmap. Ability to understand client, stakeholder requirements and working out viable solution is key.

Job Responsibilities

• Support the Cash Product strategic deliveries planned and subsequent roadmaps, with particular focus on the management and development of core cash lifecycle events and the translation of these into balance and transaction recordkeeping and reporting.
• Ensure ongoing alignment with J.P. Morgan Payments’ strategic transformation journey for cash.
• Develop expertise for different types of cash transactions and be able to link this to business activities, system flows and future state target operating models.
• Own and maintain product development team artefacts such as Confluence, program and milestone delivery management, and business requirements documentation.
• Participate in the governance of the testing cycle prior to implementation.
• Collaborate with key stakeholder groups (Product Managers, client-facing teams, publishers and consumers of cash transactions and data, technology, testing, Program Management Office teams, amongst others) to understand end to end lifecycle including upstream and downstream system integration.
• Identify and implement process improvements.
• Manage effective working group meetings across Product, Operations and Technology to deliver the cash strategy and design systemic architecture to deliver leading cash solutions for clients.
• Prioritise and schedule work, understand/evaluate the relative importance of different pieces of work, manage dependencies across streams, and co-ordinate the deliveries in the overall functional on-boarding.
• Deliver timely against the project objectives – programme definition, planning and execution – and hold others to account for their components of delivery.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Data analysis and problem-solving skills are required with ability to see the big picture across lines of business, as well as being able to step in to understand the detail to help resolve issues as and when required.
• Program management skills, must be organized and able to lead, influence and drive the project plan.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and other advanced tools such as Tableau/Alteryx/Signavio will be preferred.
• Collaboration skills, ability to work across teams/stakeholders will be important.
• Excellent written and oral communication, clarity of thought and the ability to express oneself clearly.
• Self-motivated, quick learner, being the focal point of a virtual project team, comfortable with responsibility.
• Broad business understanding, with ability to capture end-to-end business flow and progressively deepen subject matter expertise, identifying impact and dependencies up and down stream.