Controls Strategy & Innovation - Vice President

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, steering strategic controls transformation across the firm. This role sits in the Controls Strategy & Innovation team, shaping governance, reporting, and execution discipline from strategy through delivery.

You will partner with senior leaders to drive roadmaps, define target operating models, and produce executive-ready updates on progress, risks, and outcomes, empowering better business decisions worldwide.

Qualifications

• Proven program and project management across cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to advise and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems and define measurable outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive storytelling.
• Change management experience across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong analytical skills and end-to-end process understanding.
• Stakeholder management across business and technology partners.
• Experience working with geographically distributed and culturally diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead program management support for transformation initiatives across the global Controls organization
• Define transformation roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics to drive consistent delivery
• Advise and influence senior leaders on key decisions, trade-offs, and change approaches
• Build executive-level materials and narrative updates for senior management and business leadership forums
• Build strong, collaborative partnerships with stakeholders and technology partners, with a focus on delivery outcomes
• Support the definition of target operating models, governance, and controls frameworks
• Drive analytics and reporting improvements by automating manual data preparation and reporting processes
• Identify, mitigate, and escalation risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution and transparent communication
• Champion continuous improvement by identifying opportunities, recommending changes, and supporting adoption

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder influence

Problem structuring

Executive communication

Change management

Analytics

Stakeholder management

Cross-cultural collaboration

Job description

Join a team where your work shapes how we strengthen controls, accelerate strategic change, and deliver better outcomes across the firm. You will help build the operating rhythm, governance, and transparency needed to drive complex initiatives from strategy through execution.

As a Controls Strategy & Innovation - Vice Presidentwithin the Strategy and Innovation team in the Controls organization, you will define and drive a transformation roadmap across key controls initiatives. You will partner closely with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to strengthen governance, improve execution discipline, and deliver clear, executive-ready reporting on progress, risks, and outcomes.

Job responsibilities

• Establish and lead program management support for transformation initiatives across the global Controls organization
• Define transformation roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics to drive consistent delivery
• Advise and influence senior leaders on key decisions, trade-offs, and change approaches
• Build executive-level materials and narrative updates for senior management and business leadership forums
• Build strong, collaborative partnerships with stakeholders and technology partners, with a focus on delivery outcomes
• Support the definition of target operating models, governance, and controls frameworks
• Drive analytics and reporting improvements by automating manual data preparation and reporting processes
• Identify, mitigate, and escalation risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution and transparent communication
• Champion continuous improvement by identifying opportunities, recommending changes, and supporting adoption

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Demonstrated program and project management experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution
• Demonstrated experience advising and influencing senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority
• Strong ability to structure ambiguous problems, define measurable outcomes, and drive delivery against milestones
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level storytelling and material development
• Demonstrated change management experience, including driving adoption across diverse stakeholder groups
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to understand end-to-end processes and translate insights into action
• Demonstrated stakeholder management skills across business and technology partners
• Experience working effectively across geographically distributed and culturally diverse teams

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience supporting controls, governance, risk management, or operating model transformation initiatives
• Experience improving reporting through automation and workflow standardization
• Working knowledge of Agile delivery practices and ways of working
• Experience building governance routines (for example, steering forums, metrics, and status reporting) across multiple programs

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 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. Lead global controls transformation strategy, governance, and delivery, partnering with senior leaders to drive measurable change.