Trade & Working Capital Operations Risk Control – Associate

Put your trade finance expertise to work where your judgment truly matters. In this role, you will help protect clients and the firm by making sound, risk-based decisions on complex transactions. You will partner with teams across the business, influence outcomes, and champion continuous improvement through digitization and automation. Join a team that values collaboration, integrity, and an inclusive culture where you can grow your impact.

As an Associate in Trade and Working Capital Operations Risk Control, you will provide advisory support and decisioning on escalated global trade transactions with elevated risk considerations. You will apply deep product and rules expertise to identify, measure, monitor, and reduce operational and financial crime risk. You will collaborate closely with partners across product, compliance, risk, legal, and audit to drive consistent outcomes and strong controls. You will help advance a culture of continuous improvement while supporting high-risk, highly regulated processes.

You will be trusted to assess complex trade structures, interpret global trade finance rules, and recommend practical risk mitigants. You will help strengthen controls and reduce manual exceptions by contributing to transformation initiatives such as digitization and automation. 

Job responsibilities

• Advise internal partners and external clients on escalated trade finance transactions and make risk-based decisions
• Investigate escalations driven by sanctions, money laundering risk, boycott restrictions, export controls, fraud risk, and complex transaction terms
• Provide technical consulting to operations and business partners on complex transactions and new business opportunities
• Identify, measure, control, and monitor transaction risk and recommend actions to reduce exposure from errors, processing failures, and fraudulent activity
• Partner with product, compliance, risk, legal, and audit teams to drive consistent risk and control outcomes
• Escalate material risks promptly and communicate decisions with clear rationale
• Champion change in the trade finance risk and controls environment, including process improvements and control enhancements
• Contribute subject matter expertise to trade transformation initiatives such as digitization and automation
• Support a team culture that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and respectful collaboration

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 10 years of experience in trade finance, risk, compliance, or audit
• Extensive knowledge of trade products, such as commercial and standby letters of credit, documentary collections, reimbursements, supply chain finance, trade loans, and open account structures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Demonstrated risk-based decision-making skills, including timely escalation to senior management when needed
• Ability to analyze processes, identify control gaps, and influence partners to implement improvements
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with competing deadlines in a high-pressure, highly regulated environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Expert knowledge of International Chamber of Commerce trade finance rules, including Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, International Standard Banking Practice, Uniform Rules for Collections, International Standby Practices, and Uniform Rules for Bank-to-Bank Reimbursements
• Working knowledge of trade messaging standards used in trade finance (400 and 700 series)
• Expert knowledge of key United States regulations relevant to trade, including the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering requirements, sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, anti-boycott rules, and export controls
• Experience supporting trade product digitization, automation, or large-scale process transformation
• Experience designing or strengthening controls that reduce exceptions and manual processing in trade operations
• Certified Documentary Credit Specialist certification
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist certification

About UsJ.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.
About the TeamJ.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.