Payment Lifecycle Manager I (Nostro)

JP Morgan Chase; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

JP Morgan Chase in Manila is seeking a Payment Lifecycle Manager I to support daily cash positioning, funding decisions, and Nostro projections within the Cash Asset Management team. You will work with Treasury, business partners, and project teams to improve processes and ensure timely, accurate execution.

This role demands strong analytical skills, a controls mindset, proficiency in Excel, and willingness to work night shifts.

Qualifications

• Experience in payments, cash management, or financial operations.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail in time-critical environments.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines under pressure.
• Confidence to challenge, escalate, and influence decisions to protect service, controls, and outcomes.
• Knowledge of operational risk and controls, including escalation and end-to-end ownership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to engage stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including building and maintaining macros.
• Ownership mindset with follow-through to resolution on exceptions and stakeholder requests.
• Willingness and ability to work night shifts.

Responsibilities

• Perform funding and projections for Nostro accounts, monitor balances, and reconcile daily statements to predictions and ledgers within required deadlines.
• Prepare Nostro account positions based on funding and projection requirements.
• Coordinate with Treasury and business partners to confirm appropriate Nostro funding requirements.
• Monitor exceptions and drive timely investigation, escalation, and closure.
• Perform reconciliations, identify drivers of breaks, and partner with stakeholders to resolve open items.
• Support cash position forecasting and funding activities across global regions.
• Validate overdraft and credit interest charges and elevate discrepancies through appropriate channels.
• Track procedure updates and apply changes to daily execution.
• Identify process efficiencies and control enhancements that reduce exceptions and strengthen execution.
• Partner with project teams to support system enhancements and account onboarding and offboarding activities.
• Manage internal and external stakeholder communications to support timely, accurate outcomes

Skills

Payments & cash management

Analytical skills

Time management under pressure

Escalation & issue ownership

Operational risk & controls

Stakeholder communication

Excel (macros)

FINRA Series 99 (preferred)

Job description

In this role, you will combine analytical rigor, strong controls mindset, and real-time execution to support cash positioning and funding decisions. You will gain exposure to senior stakeholders and firmwide priorities while building deep expertise in payments and liquidity operations.

As a Payment Lifecycle Manager I within the Cash Asset Management team, you will support daily cash positioning, funding and projection activities, exception management, and reconciliations in a deadline-driven environment. You will perform funding and projections for Nostro accounts, monitor balances, and reconcile daily statements to predictions and ledgers within required cutoffs. You will partner with Treasury, business stakeholders, and project teams to resolve issues, improve processes, and support system enhancements. You will apply a strong risk and controls mindset, including timely escalation and end-to-end issue ownership.

Job responsibilities:

• Perform funding and projections for Nostro accounts, monitor balances, and reconcile daily statements to predictions and ledgers within required deadlines.
• Prepare Nostro account positions based on funding and projection requirements.
• Coordinate with Treasury and business partners to confirm appropriate Nostro funding requirements.
• Monitor exceptions and drive timely investigation, escalation, and closure.
• Perform reconciliations, identify drivers of breaks, and partner with stakeholders to resolve open items.
• Support cash position forecasting and funding activities across global regions.
• Validate overdraft and credit interest charges and elevate discrepancies through appropriate channels.
• Track procedure updates and apply changes to daily execution.
• Identify process efficiencies and control enhancements that reduce exceptions and strengthen execution.
• Partner with project teams to support system enhancements and account onboarding and offboarding activities.
• Manage internal and external stakeholder communications to support timely, accurate outcomes

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in payments, cash management, or financial operations.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail in a time-critical operations environment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines under pressure.
• Confidence to challenge, escalation, and influence decisions to protect service, controls, and outcomes.
• Knowledge of operational risk and controls, including escalation and end-to-end issue ownership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including building and maintaining macros.
• Ownership mindset with demonstrated follow-through to resolution on exceptions and stakeholder requests.
• Continuous improvement focus with the ability to identify and implement practical efficiency opportunities.
• Willingness and ability to work night shifts.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience with cash projections, funding, or liquidity-related operational processes.
• Experience driving process improvements that reduce exceptions, improve data quality, or strengthen controls.
• FINRA Series 99 license, or willingness to obtain FINRA Series 99