Fund Servicing Transfer Agency AML/KYC Vice President

An exciting opportunity to join our global Alternative Funds Team within the Transfer Agency Department as Vice President.

As Fund Servicing Transfer Agency AML/KYC Vice President, you will act as a member/Lead of a dedicated AML within the Transfer Agency Department whose primary responsibility will be to perform timely and efficient review and update of both new and existing Investor Anti-Money Laundering & Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) information and documentation, all with adherence to Regulatory and JPMorgan Group requirements.

Job responsibilities

• Oversight of the AML/CFT framework within TA (Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey Luxembourg, Cayman and US Funds administered by JPM EMEA), ensuring it is comprehensive, robust and compliant with contractual and where relevant, regulatory obligations

• Maintain AML/financial crime procedures and ensuring that updates can be transferred into workable operational procedures

• Analysing existing and proposed legislation, regulatory announcements/changes and industry practices which may impact TA Operations

• Liaison with local GFCC to support regulatory engagement (regulator requests etc.)

• Reviewing/Approving new AML Service offerings or client change requests

• Ensure a consistent and excellent client experience that supports the product, aligning to the operating model globally. i.e. differences relating to local requirements only.

• Develop and apply best practice to the operating model(s) in place across Securities Services

• Engage with existing and prospective clients to understand their requirements and to develop the service offering as appropriate

• Partner with and act as an escalation point internally to GFS/CIB support functions e.g. BCM/OCM, Compliance, GFCC, Risk etc

• Act as an escalation point for clients where required

• Audit queries & action plan management — define remediation/action plans, establish success measures (KPIs), track completion through closure, and evidence sustainability of fixes.

• AML QC/QA testing — execute quality control/assurance testing to maintain strong accuracy/quality rates across the team and identify opportunities for process improvement.

• Clients DD and board presentation management

• Case review support (maker/checker) — support AML casework by performing reviews as maker and/or checker, ensuring adherence to policy, procedures, and documentation standards.

• Performance of periodic reviews, Investor trigger events, Investor static data requests ensuring investor information and documentation is kept up to date.

• Assist in the identification of investors that may create money laundering or reputational risks.

• Ensure that JPMorgan do not maintain relationships or facilitate transactions involving sanctioned countries, parties or individuals.

• Ongoing vigilance in the Identification of potential suspicious activity including fraud and report to it to the JPM/Funds MLRO as appropriate.

• Assist in the production of AML/CTF regulatory reports for clients and JPMorgan Group.

• Continually proactively assess current procedures and work practices to identify potential operational inefficiencies and additional risk mitigation control requirements.