Reference Data Associate

JOB DESCRIPTION

Join a high-impact Business Management function driving operational excellence, disciplined financial oversight, and scalable governance across sites.

Lead productivity, location strategy, and resiliency to optimize capacity, real estate, and end-to-end execution while enabling strategic growth.

• Drive end-to-end governance across headcount, taxonomy, productivity, capacity, and reporting.
• Conduct productivity, volume, and time analyses to inform planning and process optimization.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, and financial reports; monitor expenses and revenues for profitability.
• Optimize real estate infrastructure and seat utilization with transparent metrics and controls.
• Build and enhance the operating model with location strategy and resiliency frameworks.
• Coordinate resources and cross-functional teams; track execution, milestones, and adjustments to meet deadlines.
• Maintain clear stakeholder communication; strengthen client, vendor, and partner relationships while embedding best practices.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Experience in business analysis, document lifecycle management, process transformation, operational excellence, data analysis, and reporting with business management skills.
• Graduate degree/MBA or other postgraduate degree; proficiency in project management tools and MS Office Suite.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication; ability to influence across lines of business with high integrity and professionalism.
• Strong analytical, end-to-end critical thinking, problem-solving mindset, adaptability, and results-driven strategic thinking.

Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Experience presenting management reporting and decks at industry-standard quality.
• Track record coordinating multi-site oversight and resource capacity management.
• Demonstrated client/vendor/partner engagement supporting strategy execution and operational improvements.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining governance discipline.

ABOUT US


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.