Control Program Transformation Lead - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Lower Blandford St Mary; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks an experienced Transformation Lead to partner with Program Leads, HR, and Technology to plan and deliver change initiatives across the global control program. You will own end-to-end delivery, drive migrations to new systems, and establish robust governance with senior stakeholders.

The role emphasizes automation adoption, controls, and operational readiness. You will work across multiple teams to ensure risk-conscious execution, training and rollout planning, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience delivering transformation initiatives in regulated environments.
• Strong governance, reporting, and control discipline.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end transformation delivery, including automation adoption.
• Plan and execute migration approaches for new systems and tooling.
• Establish fit-for-purpose change governance with clear milestones and executive reporting.
• Act as senior delivery partner to cross-functional teams; align priorities and drive decisions.
• Embed controls and documentation discipline to ensure audit-ready outputs.
• Lead change management activities: comms, training needs and rollout support.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and simplify processes and reporting.
• Support broader control program and strategic transformation initiatives.

Skills

Change management

Transformation delivery

Stakeholder management

Governance

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AI tooling

Automation tooling

Job description

You will partner closely with Program Leads, Employee Relations, Service and Operations teams, HR Product and Technology partners, and Controls and Policy stakeholders to plan and deliver change initiatives. You will manage global control program requirements, including automation enablement and tooling migration, while maintaining a strong risk and controls culture and ensuring high-quality execution.

• Lead transformation delivery: Own end-to-end delivery of transformation initiatives, including support for automation adoption.
• Drive migration to new systems/tooling: Plan and execute migration approaches covering process redesign, operating model impacts, governance, control considerations, training, and rollout/cutover while maintaining service continuity.
• Establish robust change governance: Implement fit-for-purpose governance (delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, decision logs, and executive reporting) to ensure transparent progress tracking and timely escalation.
• Stakeholder management and influence: Act as a senior delivery partner to Program Leads, Technology teams, Employee Relations, Service and Operations, and control partners; align priorities, negotiate trade-offs, and drive decisions through effective influencing skills.
• Embed controls and documentation discipline: Ensure changes are designed and implemented with appropriate controls, documentation, and adherence to required standards and procedures.
• Operational readiness and adoption: Lead change management activities to ensure successful adoption, including communication plans, training needs analysis, materials development, and post-implementation support.
• Continuous improvement and simplification: Identify opportunities to standardize, streamline, and improve processes and reporting, reducing manual effort and operational risk while improving quality outcomes.
• Cross-functional transformation support: Contribute to broader control program management and transformation initiatives and other strategic projects across HR Controls, Policy and Infrastructure as they arise, providing structured problem-solving, delivery leadership, and hands‑on execution.
  Proven experience delivering complex transformation and/or programme/project initiatives within a regulated, process-driven environment (financial services, operations, risk, controls, quality assurance, audit, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience supporting adoption of new ways of working, including process change, tooling migration, training and rollout planning, and operational readiness.
• Strong governance and delivery discipline, with the ability to manage end-to-end plans, dependencies, and status reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Strong controls mindset with excellent documentation capability, producing clear, accurate, audit‑ready documentation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to drive outcomes across multiple teams without formal authority and to handle escalations constructively.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to use data to diagnose issues, prioritize interventions, and track benefits.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience supporting quality assurance or quality control programmes.
• Experience with operating model design or service management concepts.
• Experience with process improvement methodologies and applying them pragmatically in operational settings.
• Experience implementing AI and intelligent automation tooling to streamline processes, improve control execution, and produce measurable efficiency and quality outcomes.
• Experience partnering with firmwide control, operational risk, compliance, audit, or similar control stakeholders.

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. Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Human Resources plays a critical role in driving the employee experience, shaping the firm's culture and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are a strategic partner to the business - working with leaders across the firm to hire, develop and retain the best people and help meet business goals. Together, we foster a work environment in which our people are supported, feel like they belong and are able to make an impact through their work. We develop and deliver a suite of products and services that help make JPMorgan Chase an employer of choice and drive our business forward.