From JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s public careers listing
Vice President Securities Lead
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Bournemouth, England, United KingdomPosted 17 days agoFull-time
Thinking of applying? Check your CV against this job first.
See your match score, your strongest skills for this role, and what's missing — before you spend time on an application.
Your real match score
Free CareerPilot account · Takes about 2 minutes
Are you experienced in change management and have strong knowledge of Securities
Services? Then you found the right position for you!
As a Vice President Securities Lead within the Network Management Agent
Transitions team, you will lead and coordinate delivery of complex change
impacting the agent bank and financial market infrastructure (FMI) network, with
a primary focus on Securities Services and associated post-trade operating
models. You will operate across ambiguity, build strong relationships with
senior stakeholders, and bring structure to a portfolio of strategic and
mandatory change across Securities, Cash and Legal Entity-related activity. You
will combine disciplined project delivery with a strong risk and control
mindset, excellent communication skills, and a focus on collaboration and
continuous improvement.
Job responsibilities
• Lead Securities-focused change delivery across the Agent Transitions
portfolio, ensuring projects impacting custody/clearing/settlement and
related post-trade activities are delivered with strong market readiness and
stakeholder alignment.
• People management, directly manage and develop a team of Project Managers,
including coaching, objective setting, performance feedback, and supporting
career progression; foster an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing
team culture.
• Own delivery plans from evaluation and planning through execution,
stabilization, and post-implementation review, ensuring clear outcomes,
cutovers, and controls are embedded.
• Drive portfolio discipline for Securities workstreams, including
prioritization input, sequencing, dependencies, and governance routines to
support senior management oversight.
• Act as a senior escalation point for risks, issues, dependencies, and
decisions that may affect delivery timelines, client outcomes, or operational
readiness.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders
across Product, Operations, Technology, Legal, Compliance and Network
Management, driving timely decisions and clear accountability.
• Partner with Global and Regional Heads to ensure a consistent approach to
transition activity across markets/regions and alignment to Network
Management standards.
• Ensure high-quality documentation, controls and reporting are maintained
throughout the delivery lifecycle to support audit readiness and transparent
governance.
• Lead ad hoc strategic initiatives and drive continuous improvement across
processes, governance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement, including
adoption of best practices and lessons learned.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Significant experience in program, project or change management within
financial services.
• Strong knowledge of Securities Services and post-trade processes/operating
models (e.g., custody, clearing, settlement, corporate actions, market
infrastructure interactions).
• Demonstrated ability to work with senior stakeholders across Product,
Operations, Technology, Legal and Compliance.
• Proven track record managing governance, prioritization, risks/issues,
dependencies, and senior reporting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to
produce concise senior-level updates and decision materials.
• Strong focus on controls, accountability, and clear delivery outcomes;
comfortable operating in a regulated environment.
• People management experience, including developing talent and supporting
career progression.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Experience in Network Management, agent bank/custodian transitions, clearing
or securities operations, or coordination across external providers/market
infrastructures/vendors.
• Knowledge of legal entity change and its impact across products, markets, and
operating models.
• Experience coordinating global/regional stakeholders across time zones and
driving consistent execution across regions.
• Experience improving project governance, portfolio transparency, reporting,
or resource allocation.
• Experience leading innovation initiatives or embedding new ways of working
(e.g., improved reporting/data visualization).
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. Visit our FAQs
[https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs] for more information about
requesting an accommodation.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking,
markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and
institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than
100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice,
raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.