Trade Lifecycle Lead - Vice President

Job Description

Are you ready to make your mark by leading critical post-trade outcomes, reducing risk, and modernizing settlement processes through automation and strong controls?

As a Securities Settlements Vice President within Global Securities Operations, you manage end-to-end Fixed Income (cash and repurchase agreement) settlement activity across Euroclear and Europe, Middle East and Africa domestic markets. You lead reconciliations, fails and exceptions, and daily control execution to mitigate operational risk and support regulatory compliance, including Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR). You partner closely with stakeholders across trading, front office, middle office, custodian banks, and brokers while developing talent and driving operational excellence alongside teams such as Asset Servicing.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end Fixed Income (cash and repurchase agreement) settlement processing across Euroclear and Europe, Middle East and Africa domestic markets.
• Own daily reconciliations of cash, position, and suspense accounts and drive timely resolution of breaks.
• Manage settlement fails and complex exceptions, including client escalations, and drive root-cause remediation.
• Execute and document daily key controls in line with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure adherence to applicable regulations, including Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR), with a strong risk and control mindset.
• Partner with trading, cash, emerging markets, and repurchase agreement businesses to resolve discrepancies and minimize business and operational risk.
• Coordinate with treasury and the trading desk on daily funding projections.
• Engage with custodian banks and brokers to manage cross-border settlement processes and issue resolution.
• Identify, design, and implement automation opportunities to improve reporting accuracy, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures to support training, incident response, and operational continuity.
• Partner with change management to deliver process changes and system improvements, ensuring smooth integration across settlement functions.

Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities:

• 12+ years of experience in securities operations with a focus on settlement in a regulated broker-dealer environment.
• Demonstrated end-to-end understanding of the trade lifecycle (pre-matching, matching, settlement, fails, and exceptions).
• Deep product knowledge across Fixed Income cash and repurchase agreement transactions.
• Proven experience running settlement activity across Euroclear and Europe, Middle East and Africa domestic markets.
• Strong risk, control, and compliance mindset, including experience operating under Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) requirements.
• Hands-on experience owning cash, position, and suspense reconciliations and resolving breaks within control timelines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including root-cause analysis for settlement fails.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams and interact effectively with senior leadership.
• Experience working in fast-paced, high-volume environments with competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across front office, middle office, treasury, custodian banks, and brokers.
• Ability to manage cross-border and multi-market settlement activity and related exceptions.

Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities:

• Experience supporting securities lending settlement processes and controls.
• Proficiency with Euroclear, Depository Trust Company (DTC), and Bank of New York Mellon platforms and related reconciliation processes.
• Demonstrated experience driving automation to improve operational efficiency and reporting accuracy.
• Experience developing and maintaining training-ready standard operating procedures to support continuity and scalability.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with change management on process and system enhancements.
• Experience managing complex client exceptions across multiple domestic markets.
• Experience operating within clearing or custody operations environments.

About Us

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 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.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.