VP, Global Financial Crimes & Payments — LATAM & Canada

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 2,585,000 - 3,693,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Global Financial Crimes Compliance Payments Manager to oversee risk management for the Payments business across Latin America and Canada.

You will partner with regional teams, Sales, and control functions to identify, assess, escalate, and mitigate material financial crimes risks. You will lead specialized due diligence for high-risk customers and coordinate onboarding reviews, ensuring robust controls and timely governance responses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, International Relations, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in financial crimes compliance or a related control function.
• Strong knowledge of financial crimes control frameworks, including Know Your Customer, AML transaction monitoring, Sanctions, customer due diligence, and escalation of significant risk matters.
• Understanding of Payments products, cross-border payment flows, correspondent banking, and financial crimes risks linked to evolving payment models and technologies.
• Ability to assess complex customer activities, business models, information, material risks, and control gaps, while exercising sound independent judgment.
• Strong ability to communicate effectively and influence outcomes with senior business stakeholders, Compliance colleagues, and control partners.
• Ability to manage multiple complex matters simultaneously, prioritize based on risk and business needs, and deliver high-quality work within required timeframes.
• Fluency in English and Spanish, with proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Provide Global Financial Crimes Compliance coverage for the Payments business across Latin America and Canada, supporting identification, assessment, escalation, and mitigation of material financial crimes risks.
• Lead Specialized Due Diligence reviews for complex and higher-risk customers, including Foreign Correspondent Banks, Non-Bank Payments Service Providers, Virtual or Digital Assets Service Providers, Regulated Gaming Operators, and other elevated-risk customer types.
• Engage with Sales teams and relevant stakeholders throughout onboarding and review processes to understand customer activities, assess financial crimes controls, and identify material risks and control gaps.
• Lead Compliance-to-Compliance discussions with customers and review due diligence materials, including assessments of Know Your Customer, Sanctions, AML transaction monitoring, fraud controls, regulatory examinations, and independent testing.
• Develop and articulate independent Global Financial Crimes Compliance risk positions, providing clear, timely, and well-supported feedback to senior Payments stakeholders, control partners, and governance forums.
• Review and provide financial crimes compliance input on escalation materials for regional and global committees, oversee follow-up actions and conditions, and lead escalation of significant financial crimes matters affecting Payments.
• Assess financial crimes implications of new products, services, customer types, jurisdictions, and strategic Payments initiatives, coordinating with regional and local financial crimes compliance teams and relevant functions.
• Contribute to Payments-related standards, procedures, risk frameworks, governance processes, training, management information, metrics, and risk analyses to support senior-management reporting and decision-making.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Independent judgment

Multitasking

English fluency

Spanish fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance

Postgraduate degree or certification

Tools

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks a Global Financial Crimes Compliance Payments Manager to oversee risk management for the Payments business across Latin America and Canada.

You will partner with regional teams, Sales, and control functions to identify, assess, escalate, and mitigate material financial crimes risks. You will lead specialized due diligence for high-risk customers and coordinate onboarding reviews, ensuring robust controls and timely governance responses.