Financial Crime Escalations Quality Control Team Lead

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Midlothian
9 months ago
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Job Summary:

Are you looking for a new career opportunity to lead a financial crime prevention Quality Control team?

As a Financial Crime Escalations Quality Control Team Leader in our Financial Crime team, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the quality control team, and responsible for the quality reviews of relationship review cases related to financial crime. Your role will be to ensure adherence to both our firmwide and local policy requirements as well as implementation of relevant updates. You will manage the quality control analyst performance, ensuring timely reviews of allocated workloads and collaborating with the Financial Crime Escalations Team Leaders to identify knowledge gaps and share best practice.

An important facet of this role, you will be managing internal stakeholder relationships both with peers and senior leadership, this will include providing candid feedback to colleagues on their quality of work.

Role Description:

Promote financial crime prevention as a team leader, driving the right culture and ensuring the quality of escalated cases, managing your team, stakeholders and providing candid feedback.

Job Responsibilities:

Direct oversight of the Financial Crime Escalations Quality Control process, ensuring all cases are reviewed in a timely manner and to the required standard  Manage Quality Control pipeline of incoming cases, ensuring prioritisation and timely resolution Provide direct supervision and guidance that can be adaptable to both new hires and experienced QC Analysts as needs are identified  Manage performance of QC Analysts, provide clear performance targets, conduct performance reviews and develop clear career and personal development plans Partner with Senior Management to ensure KPI's are in line with business requirements, monitor metrics reporting, highlight concerns, propose resolution and track progress  Identify and implement process improvements and provide Subject Matter Expert support on key process and technology initiatives 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Extensive experience working within a KYC/Financial Crime/Fraud role within Financial Service or Banking  Experience in pipeline management with ability to prioritise work, create plans, and manage book of work to meet deadlines  Excellent communication skills with strong stakeholder management and experienced in managing upward and a proven ability to identify, analyse, plan, prioritise and solve problems  Strong time management skills while working under pressure to fixed deadlines and demonstrate an independent decision-making ability, and strong analytical skills in order to relay clear and concise information to senior leaders  Be a multitasker with the ability to prioritise – you can connect and maintain engagement with stakeholders, whilst remaining a constant support for your team  Quality-focused work ethic with a strong controls mind-set 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Experience of working within a digital bank  Experience of working within a Quality Control/Quality Assurance role  Leadership experience including performance management and coaching  Microsoft Office

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