Global Reconciliations Leader — Post-Trade Ops

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Manila is seeking a Reconciliations Manager to lead day-to-day post-trade reconciliation activities, resolve cash and asset exceptions, and partner with custodians, brokers, and transfer agents to meet market deadlines and improve client outcomes.

The role emphasizes strong controls, risk awareness, and participation in change initiatives, including process improvements, system enhancements, and digital solutions, while building an inclusive, high-performing operations

Qualifications

• Knowledge of financial products such as equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, collateral, derivatives, money markets, and cash products.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team, including coaching, performance management, and delivering to agreed objectives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to perform root-cause analysis and drive issues to resolution.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex issues clearly to stakeholders.
• Ability to build effective partnerships and work collaboratively across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to identify operational risks, strengthen controls, and escalation appropriately.
• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality outcomes in a changing environment.
• Experience supporting trade lifecycle, reconciliations, and/or fund accounting.
• Experience leading or contributing to process improvement and control enhancement initiatives in operations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee instruction capture, trade matching, confirmation, settlement support, claims management, and reconciliations as applicable to the client service model.
• Perform cash reconciliations across client, custodian, fund, and internal books and records, and ensure breaks are identified and progressed to resolution.
• Perform asset reconciliations across client, custodian, fund, and internal books and records, and ensure timely investigation of position differences.
• Investigate exceptions by completing root-cause analysis and validating outcomes using internal data and third-party sources.
• Partner with client-facing teams to communicate status, actions, and timelines and to resolve client-impacting issues.
• Coordinate with custodians, brokers, and transfer agents to resolve exceptions and support settlement and market cut-offs.
• Escalate risks, control issues, and material breaks appropriately, and track actions through closure.
• Produce regular and ad hoc reporting, including exception themes, operational metrics, and control results.
• Support system testing, enhancements, and project delivery for digital solutions, process improvements, and market rule changes.
• Manage onboarding of new client activity and service changes to support business growth.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Time management

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Alteryx

Tableau

UiPath

Xceptor

Instabase

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Manila is seeking a Reconciliations Manager to lead day-to-day post-trade reconciliation activities, resolve cash and asset exceptions, and partner with custodians, brokers, and transfer agents to meet market deadlines and improve client outcomes.

The role emphasizes strong controls, risk awareness, and participation in change initiatives, including process improvements, system enhancements, and digital solutions, while building an inclusive, high-performing operations