Payments Lifecycle Associate
J.P. Morgan
bournemouth, uk
Posted on Apr 8, 2026
Unlock your potential by joining our Cash Asset Management Utility - a Payments Operations team, where you will play a pivotal role, partnering with senior management, to drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and contribute to a dynamic and inclusive team culture.
As a Payments Lifecycle Associate in Cash Asset Management, you will be part of a firmwide function, consisting of over 390 employees operating in 7 locations, a firmwide utility providing end-to-end cash management enabling Treasury to manage the firm's balance sheet. You will work within the Projections Service. As a member of the Cash Projections Team the key priority is to ensure accurate and timely dialogue with Corporate.
Job responsibilities
- Handle large value transactions to the strictest of deadlines
- Identify and challenge discrepancies and anomalies to mitigate risk
- Work on continuously strive to improve knowledge of processes and procedures
- Act as a team player, able to work a rotating shift patterns with coverage between 6am and 6pm and very occasional Saturdays (day in lieu given)
- Complete escalation issues where appropriate
- Collaborate across Cash Asset Management (service leads, change teams and operations), building strong internal and firmwide stakeholder relationships to influence change
- Deliver effective communication tailored to stakeholders across the firm at all levels
- Own process enhancements to reduce manual exception processes
- Provide approval support for FINRA Series 99 requirements
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Series 99 Qualified (or to become within 6 month of start date)
- Self-motivated, highly numerate and accurate, team player with good interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills
- The ability to meet tight deadlines and handle high value payments is essential
- Good awareness of risk and control issues
- Desirable to have previous payment and/or cash management experience
- Excellent prioritisation, planning, organisational and time management skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities and to act with own initiative
- Confident in both verbal and written communication at all levels
- Takes responsibility and ownership for issues and follows through to resolution with timely and relevant communications
- Able to work comfortably and confidently under pressure and tight deadlines and is detail oriented
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Passion for continuous service improvement, creates conditions for identifying and solving process and data problems
- Financial Services background, especially in operational roles
- FINRA qualifications
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.
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 Payments Lifecycle Associate and be a part of our global team!
