JOB DESCRIPTION
Control Functions Legal – Legal Counsel
Job Description
Take your career to the next level with the Control Functions Legal team (CFL). You will monitor, analyze, report, and advise on changes in laws and regulations affecting Consumer & Community Banking (CCB), including Auto Finance, Business Banking, Card Services, Consumer Banking, Connected Commerce, Digital and Payments, Home Lending, Marketing, JPMorgan Wealth Management, and associated operations.
In this role, you will:
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Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting CCB.
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Draft clear, concise summaries of developments and their key impacts for legal and business stakeholders.
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Partner with Legal and control functions across CCB on legal, regulatory, and change management matters.
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Design, implement, and enhance legal and regulatory change management processes, including assessing and leveraging emerging technology.
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Develop and refine prompts and other AI inputs to support legal research, issue spotting, and change-management workflows, consistent with applicable governance and controls.
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Provide additional support to the team and CFL's clients as needed, including responding to regulator, audit, and compliance inquiries, and supporting special research projects.
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience
- J.D. or educational equivalent required.
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Admission to practice law and compliance with all relevant licensing requirements, including the specific requirements of the jurisdiction where the role will be located prior to commencement of employment.
- Three or more years of experience in legal practice in consumer banking, financial services regulation, and/or financial services litigation.
- Excellent legal analysis and research skills, including issue-spotting.
- Knowledge of US state legislative and regulatory processes.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to draft and refine existing AI prompts and assistants.
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Work effectively, both independently and as part of a team, to take ownership of responsibilities, to collaborate well, and proactively solve problems.
- Multitask and prioritize work intelligently in a fast-paced and complex business environment.
- All candidates for roles in the Legal department must successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment.
Preferred Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Regulatory, government, or compliance experience.
- Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning Large Language Models and Agentic AI.
- Business Intelligence Solutions Applications.
- Technological mindset/background.
ABOUT US
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.
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
With large, global operations, the Legal team tackles complex issues and helps shape the regulations that affect the businesses. The group is organized into practice groups that align with the lines of business and corporate staff areas, which encourages collaboration on legal, regulatory and business developments as they arise.
