APAC Cash Operations Manager (Strategy & Controls) - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase
Singapore

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates with cross-functional leadership experience and a track record in cash operations, comfortable with shaping location strategy and driving regional efficiency improvements.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years in cash operations and experience leading regional transformation projects
    — “Minimum 10 years of experience in cash operations and/or cash products within financial services”
  • Professionals with a strong background in payments, deposits, and liquidity products and regulatory compliance
    — “Working knowledge of payments, deposits, and liquidity products and operating flows”

Things to consider

  • Requires leadership in a matrixed environment with no direct reporting lines
    — “Proven ability to deliver outcomes through influence across multiple locations and teams without direct reporting lines”
  • Mandates direct engagement with multiple stakeholders across business, product, technology, and compliance teams
    — “Build strong partnerships with branch leads and stakeholders across business, product, service, technology, risk, compliance, and audit teams”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience shaping location strategies and centralizing processes in your resume and interview responses
    — “Set and evolve the operating model and location strategy, identifying opportunities to centralize processes in a hub or shift work across sites”
  • Emphasize your ability to lead incident response coordination and maintain resiliency readiness
    — “Lead incident response coordination and communications for events impacting cash operations across the region”
  • Showcase your track record in implementing risk and control procedures and driving remediation to closure
    — “Strong risk and controls mindset, with experience meeting regulatory expectations and driving remediation to closure”
  • Demonstrate your stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration successes in your application materials
    — “Partner with regional product and client service teams on initiatives requiring operations engagement”
  • Quantify your impact in driving efficiency, automation, and standardization across multiple locations
    — “Lead regional projects across branches to drive efficiency, automation, and standardisation”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • drive regional improvements in cash operations
  • ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
  • lead regional projects for efficiency and automation
  • partner with product and client service teams
  • implement best practices across branches
Typical background
10+ years experience in cash operationsleadership experience in financial servicesunderstanding of payments and treasury services

Skills & requirements

Required

Cash OperationsRegulatory ComplianceProject ManagementRisk ManagementControlsNetworkingStakeholder ManagementCommunication

Preferred

CentralizationAutomationStandardizationIncident ResponseResiliency

Stack & domain

Cash OperationsEfficiencyAutomationStandardizationRisk ManagementControlsComplianceDocumentationGovernanceIncident ResponseResiliencyNetworkingExecutionPrioritizationManagementCommunicationTechnology StrategyPaymentsTreasury ServicesLiquidity ProductsOperating FlowsRegulatory RequirementsLeadershipInfluenceStakeholder ManagementConflict ResolutionFinanceBanking

About the role

Original posting from JPMorgan Chase

Lead how cash operations runs across Asia. You will drive regional improvements, strengthen controls, and ensure consistent regulatory compliance across locations. You will partner closely with product, client service, technology, risk, compliance, and branch leads to deliver outcomes at pace. This role suits a self-directed leader who can influence without direct reporting lines and bring teams together to execute.

As a Vice President in Regional Cash Operations within Asia Wholesale Payments Operations, you will own oversight of cash operations performance across assigned Asia branches. You will lead regional projects that improve efficiency, automation, and standard ways of working, while ensuring strong controls and compliance with local and global regulatory requirements. You will shape location strategy by identifying opportunities to centralize processes in a hub or shift work across sites, while maintaining resiliency. You will also lead incident and resiliency readiness across the region and provide clear updates to senior leadership. You will succeed by building strong networks, driving execution through influence, and developing capability across a matrixed organization.

Job responsibilities

Own cash operations performance across assigned branches, ensuring consistent delivery and effective escalation.Set and evolve the operating model and location strategy, identifying opportunities to centralize processes in a hub or shift work across sites while maintaining resiliency.Lead regional projects across branches to drive efficiency, automation, and standardisation.Partner with regional product and client service teams on initiatives requiring operations engagement to improve product capability and client experience.Ensure procedures and controls meet local and global legal, regulatory, and industry requirements across locations.Implement best practices across branches, including documentation standards, governance routines, and consistent execution.Drive the risk and controls agenda, including error tracking, issue management, and remediation governance.Lead incident response coordination and communications for events impacting cash operations across the region.Maintain incident and resiliency documentation and readiness routines, ensuring requirements are completed on time and to standard.Build strong partnerships with branch leads and stakeholders across business, product, service, technology, risk, compliance, and audit teams.Provide clear updates to senior leadership on performance, risks, priorities, and delivery progress.

 Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Bachelor DegreeMinimum 10 years of experience in cash operations and/or cash products within financial services, including leadership or matrix leadership responsibilities.Strong understanding of payments and treasury services operations and technology strategy.Working knowledge of payments, deposits, and liquidity products and operating flows.Proven ability to deliver outcomes through influence across multiple locations and teams without direct reporting lines.Strong risk and controls mindset, with experience meeting regulatory expectations and driving remediation to closure.Strong execution discipline, with the ability to prioritise, manage competing demands, and deliver to deadlines.Strong stakeholder management and networking skills, including the ability to align teams and manage conflict constructively.Strong communication skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders.Demonstrated people leadership capability, including coaching and developing others in a matrixed environment.

 Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience leading regional operating model changes, including centralising work in hubs or shifting work across sites.Experience delivering cross-branch transformation involving process redesign or technology enablement.Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for automation and artificial intelligence in operational workflows, including evaluating, implementing, or governing solutions to deliver scalable improvements.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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.

Source: JPMorgan Chase careers

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