Senior Associate Control Manager

Fairygodboss; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 80,750 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Wellness centers on-site

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Associate Control Manager in the Legal department to strengthen the control environment and reduce risk through design, automation, and analytics. You will partner with attorneys and business teams to identify gaps, lead assessments, and drive remediation with data-driven insights.

The role emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and measurable impact, with responsibility for monitoring controls, ensuring regulatory alignment, and guiding

Qualifications

• 5+ years in financial services with controls, audit, quality assurance, or operational risk management.
• Risk management practices in routine situations, escalate when needed.
• Change management resources used to minimize disruption, support stakeholders through change.
• Influences others using data and facts, facilitates solutions across the business.
• Internal stakeholders: build productive relationships, proactive communication.
• Effective presentations and executive summaries; clear messaging for alignment.
• Collaborate across functions, foster inclusive environment.
• Analyze data, identify issues, and support timely, evidence-based decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to analyze risks and controls, identify gaps, and advise solutions.
• Design, deploy, and monitor controls using automation, AI, and data analytics.
• Review program data (KRI/KPI), create reports to support decisions.
• Lead Risk & Control Self-Assessments through process walkthroughs with teams.
• Lead or support control program projects, ensure regulatory compliance and drive improvements with new tech.
• Bring digital risk management, agile practices, and automation to the organization.

Skills

Risk management

Change management

Influence

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Teamwork

Knowledge sharing

Analytical thinking

Job description

Build a stronger, smarter control environment where your work directly improves how we operate. In this role, you will help identify emerging risks, close control gaps, and drive continuous improvement using data, automation, and analytics. You will partner with lawyers and legal professionals to design practical controls that scale with change. Join a team that values collaboration, innovation, and measurable impact.

As a Senior Associate Control Manager within the Legal department, you will play a crucial role as part of the first line of defense supporting the Legal department's control environment. You will collaborate with attorneys, legal professionals, business managers, and control colleagues to identify and reduce compliance and operational risks through effective control design and monitoring. You will use data and automation to build proactive, sustainable controls that support secure and efficient operations. You will lead risk and control assessments, translate findings into clear actions, and help stakeholders execute remediation. You will help us strengthen our risk culture while enabling the business to move quickly and responsibly.

Job responsibilities

• Partner with and advise stakeholders to analyze risks and controls across the business, proactively find gaps or new risks, and identify root causes to advise solutions.

• Design, set up, and monitor controls using automation, AI, and data analytics to build a proactive risk culture.

• Review and provide program data (such as KRI/KPI), use analytics and visualization tools, and create reports to support business decisions.

• Take active ownership of Risk & Control Self-Assessments by leading process walkthroughs and mapping exercises with different teams.

• Lead or support control program projects, ensuring regulatory compliance and addressing key risks, while identifying and driving improvements through new technology.

• Bring in skills like digital risk management, agile ways of working, and automation to keep the organization moving forward.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• 5+ years working in financial services, with experience in controls, audit, quality assurance, or operational risk management.

• Risk Management & Controls: Independently applies risk management practices in routine situations, voices concerns, executes escalation procedures, and assists others with standard risk matters.

• Change Management: Utilizes change management resources, applies standard approaches to minimize disruption, supports stakeholders through moderate change, and escalates complex matters when needed.

• Influence: Influences others using facts and data, facilitates mutually acceptable solutions, engages productively across the business, and escalates complex matters when necessary.

• Internal Stakeholder Management: Establishes productive relationships with internal stakeholders, communicates proactively, adapts to stakeholder needs, and assists with stakeholder engagement.

• Communication & Presentation Skills: Independently creates and delivers effective presentations using sound design principles, writes executive summaries and key messages with clarity, and actively listens and summarizes discussions to drive alignment.

• Teamwork: Accepts responsibility for individual and team outcomes, collaborates across functions, promotes an inclusive environment, and works productively with peers and stakeholders.

• Knowledge Sharing & Lessons Learned: Independently captures and documents project insights, participates in knowledge sharing, applies lessons learned to improve work quality, and assists others with documentation.

• Analytical Thinking & Decision Making: Analyzes routine and moderately complex data, critically evaluates information and alternatives, identifies key issues and patterns, engages stakeholders, and delivers timely, fact-based decisions while assisting others with analytical tasks.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Policies, Standards, and Procedures: Demonstrates an understanding of internal policies, procedures and standards, and independently applies their requirements to protect Client, Firm, and Employee obligations.

• Data Literacy & Automation Proficiency: Applies data literacy in routine contexts with appropriate controls, identifies and evaluates automation/ML opportunities based on complexity and impact, delivers clear insights and communicates benefits to stakeholders, and assists others with data tasks and automation assessments.

• Regulatory Landscape: Familiarity with legal obligations applicable to a global financial institution's Legal function, and the ability to translate legal/regulatory obligations into practical control requirements.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.

We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.

• comprehensive health care coverage
• on-site health and wellness centers
• a retirement savings plan
• backup childcare
• tuition reimbursement
• mental health support
• financial coaching

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Base Pay/Salary

Plano,TX $80,750.00 - $115,000.00 / year; Columbus,OH $76,000.00 - $110,000.00 / year