Risk Management - Credit Risk Middle Office & Reporting – Project Management Associate

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Newark, DE

About The Position

As an Associate within the Credit Risk Middle Office and Wholesale Credit Risk Reporting Data Improvement Project Management team at JPMorgan Chase, you will support structured execution, operational transparency, and data quality across key credit risk workstreams. You will partner with process and project leads to drive end-to-end delivery governance, maintain scope clarity, and ensure integrated planning and consistent stakeholder reporting. Your work will span initiatives including client onboarding, exposure monitoring, and reference data quality — enabling teams across the firm to manage risk effectively and with confidence. This is a role where your organizational discipline, communication skills, and delivery mindset will directly shape outcomes that matter.

Requirements

Minimum 3 years of experience in project management, program management, business management, risk or data operations, or a related delivery role within financial services.
Working knowledge of core project management practices including planning, dependency tracking, governance routines, and executive-ready status reporting.
Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce clear, structured updates for senior stakeholders and synthesize complex discussions into decisions and actions.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders, maintain accountability, and manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
Strong attention to detail and organizational skills, with a consistent approach to documentation and control of deliverables.
Proficiency with standard productivity tools including presentation software, spreadsheets, and collaboration platforms, with comfort working with metrics and dashboards.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to counterparty credit risk, risk reporting, risk data quality, or data governance concepts, including common root causes and remediation patterns.
Experience supporting technology-enabled change — including requirements gathering, testing coordination, and release readiness — in partnership with engineering and product teams.
Familiarity with operational risk and control concepts, including documenting process changes and tracking remediation through closure.
Experience building repeatable reporting packs such as scorecards and capacity metrics for leadership consumption.

Responsibilities

Partner with stakeholders across credit risk and wholesale credit risk reporting teams to translate strategic objectives into clear workplans, milestones, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
Define, document, and maintain task plans, dependency mapping, and critical-path sequencing across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment across technology, operations, risk, and business stakeholders.
Own day-to-day delivery governance including action-item tracking, meeting cadences, and accountability follow-through; proactively surface schedule slippage and propose recovery options.
Produce concise, executive-ready communications including monthly scorecards, status decks, and delivery summaries that are accurate, consistent, and decision-oriented.
Support integration and alignment across process change, control enhancements, and implementation activities; identify cross-workstream impacts and facilitate coordinated execution.
Coordinate requirements and testing support activities, including documentation hygiene, traceability of requirements to outcomes, and readiness tracking for user acceptance testing sign-offs and production cutovers.
Monitor, analyze, and report credit risk exposure data quality trends; track remediation progress, aging, and recurrence, and provide transparent reporting of outcomes and residual risks.
Track and report data-quality-driven limit breach drivers and near-misses, coordinating with owners to validate remediation actions, prevent recurrence, and improve control effectiveness.
Identify opportunities to improve delivery discipline and process effectiveness — including templates, controls, reporting routines, and governance hygiene — and drive adoption across the team.