Risk Management - Strategic Analytics - Vice President

Testing Site - JPMC; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Wilmington seeks a Vice President in Risk Management - Strategic Analytics to shape risk strategy through data-driven insights and leadership. You will guide acquisition analytics, partner across functions, and present findings to Senior Management to influence decisions.

The role emphasizes advanced analytics (SAS, SQL), data understanding, and mentorship of junior analysts while ensuring robust controls and governance to protect profitability and resilience.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of risk management or financial services experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present findings to Senior Management.
• Experience partnering across different functions and independent decision-making skills.
• SAS, SQL, and statistical analysis experience.
• Result oriented with attention to details and ability to lead projects.
• Flexible and able to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced changing environment.
• Knowledge of financial procedures & principles and strong understanding of consumer lending.
• Proven innovative thinker with quick learning ability to identify, analyze and solve problems in a thoughtful and organized manner to develop strategy recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline like Statistics, Economics, or Finance

Responsibilities

• Manage acquisition risk strategies and conduct risk analysis.
• Develop and apply analytic methods using SAS and SQL to segment risk and derive insights.
• Understand data and drive growth with loss and profitability insights.
• Follow disciplined analytics to inform Senior Management decisions.
• Collaborate with execution teams to implement and monitor strategy quality.
• Ensure robust controls and governance to manage operational risk.
• Develop and communicate innovative solutions to management.
• Lead and train junior analysts.

Skills

6+ years experience in risk management

Strong communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Project leadership

Fast-paced adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, or Finance

Master’s degree in Mathematics/Statistics/Economics/Finance

Tools

SAS

SQL

Job description

Bring your Expertise to JPMorgan Chase. As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

As a Risk Management - Strategic Analytics - Vice President in Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage Business Card Credit Acquisition Strategies. Conduct risk analysis, generating thoughtful recommendations, building and optimizing risk strategies, working with partners to get strategies implemented, ensuring operational controls, and monitoring performance.
• Develop and apply mathematical or statistical theory using analytic tools (SAS, SQL etc.) to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data from multiple sources to develop the best of class risk strategy in the industry through advanced analytical and segmentation techniques.
• Understand data and find innovative solutions to complex business problem and drive healthy business growth with full cycle view of loss and profitability.
• Follow a disciplined analytical approach to ensure recommendations taken to Senior Management result in correct decisions.
• Work with execution team to implement, validate, and monitor the strategy quality and its performance; ensure robust control and governance to manage operational risk.
• Help spearhead best in class documentation and audit controls surrounding strategies.
• Develop and communicate creative solutions to business unit management in effective manners.
• Lead and train the junior analysts.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities

• 6+ years of risk management or financial services experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present findings to Senior Management
• Experience partnering across different functions and independent decision-making skills
• SAS, SQL, and statistical analysis experience
• Result oriented with attention to details and ability to lead projects
• Flexible and able to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced changing environment
• Knowledge of financial procedures & principles and strong understanding of consumer lending
• Proven innovative thinker with quick learning ability to identify, analyze and solve problems in a thoughtful and organized manner to develop strategy recommendations
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline like Statistics, Economics, or Finance

Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Demonstrated ownership of end to end acquisition credit strategy for a product/segment (policy, cutoffs, monitoring, and iterative optimization)
• Proven ability to drive risk adjusted growth (balancing approval rate, bad rate, losses, and profitability) with clear trade-off recommendations
• Advanced degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline preferred