Futures & Options EMEA Deliveries Vice President
J.P. Morgan
Join J.P. Morgan's Futures & Options (F&O) EMEA Deliveries team as a Vice President, where operational excellence is a priority in the team.
As a Futures & Options EMEA Deliveries Vice President within the Futures & Options EMEA Deliveries Team, you will be responsible for leading the Futures & Options delivery function, ensuring effective execution, robust controls, and full compliance with market and regulatory requirements. You will be accountable for the end-to-end post-trade delivery lifecycle across EMEA markets, including contract expiry, options exercise and assignment, and the physical settlement of futures and options. You will also collaborate closely with multiple F&O operations teams, Account Management, Clients, Risk, Compliance, Technology, and external market regulators to deliver stable and controlled outcomes during both routine and high-risk market events.
Job responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end Futures & Options delivery processes across EMEA, including contract expiry processing, options exercise and assignment (automatic and manual), and physical delivery of futures and options.
- Maintain strong working knowledge of EMEA exchange rules, delivery timelines, and product specifications.
- Assess and implement changes arising from exchange rule updates, CCP notices, and regulatory developments impacting EMEA deliveries.
- Own operational risk for the EMEA Deliveries function, ensuring appropriate controls around expiry, exercise, assignment, and physical settlement.
- Manage effective issue escalation, root-cause analysis, and maintain clear documentation and audit trails.
- Lead the team through time-critical and high-risk EMEA market events, including monthly and quarterly expiries, physical settlement windows, and market events impacting deliverable instruments.
- Act as a business stakeholder for EMEA Deliveries systems and related change initiatives.
- Serve as a senior point of contact for all queries related to the Deliveries function and support Client Service and Operations partners, as well as CCPs, Exchanges, market utilities, custodians, and settlement agents.
- Lead and develop the EMEA Deliveries team, ensuring appropriate coverage and skill depth.
- Set clear expectations, support performance management, and promote continuous improvement.
- Foster a culture of ownership, precision, and controlled execution.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in F&O post-trade operations, clearing, or deliveries, with strong exposure to EMEA markets.
- Demonstrated experience with options exercise and assignment, physical delivery of futures and options, and exchange/CCP delivery processes.
- Solid understanding of regulatory and operational risk standards.
- Proven people management experience within a regulated financial services environment.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience leading a Deliveries or Clearing function.
- Exposure to automation or process improvement initiatives in post-trade.
- Prior involvement in regulatory reviews, audits, or control reviews.
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.
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.
Join us as a Trade Lifecycle Manager within the Futures & Options team, managing trade lifecycle events in EMEA markets.
