HR Control Manager - Vice President

J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan

People & HR

bournemouth, uk

Posted on May 26, 2026

Join a high‑impact team where you will shape how we manage risk and strengthen our control environment across Human Resources. You will lead complex, cross‑functional initiatives, influence senior stakeholders, and see your work translate into firmwide outcomes. Here, you will grow your career through stretch opportunities, mentorship, and access to a global network of risk and control professionals. You bring curiosity and courage to challenge the status quo—we provide the platform to make it happen.

As a Control Manager – Vice President within the Human Resources Control Management team, you drive a proactive risk and control culture that protects our customers, employees, and brand. You will partner with Human Resources leaders and cross‑functional teams to design, implement, and continuously improve our control framework. You translate strategy into action—identifying risks, advising on controls, and leading remediation to reduce operational, regulatory, and reputational risk. Together, we champion an environment of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement. You will collaborate across people operations, technology, legal, and compliance partners to evaluate end‑to‑end processes, strengthen legal and regulatory obligation adherence, and enable scalable, sustainable solutions. Your ability to influence, simplify, and execute in a fast‑paced environment will help us deliver consistent, high‑quality outcomes for colleagues and stakeholders.

Job responsibilities

  • Lead creation and reinforcement of a proactive risk and control culture, using proven evaluation strategies and change management.
  • Drive end‑to‑end execution of control and operational risk evaluation activities, including issue identification, root‑cause analysis, and sustainable remediation.
  • Design, implement, and maintain an effective control framework in partnership with Human Resources and cross‑functional stakeholders.
  • Assess business strategies and processes; advise on risk management and identify opportunities to streamline and improve controls.
  • Identify, escalate, monitor, and measure operational risks in line with firmwide programs and standards.
  • Provide independent risk and control advice and challenge, including targeted reviews and thematic analysis.
  • Develop practical, strategic risk‑mitigation solutions that reduce financial, regulatory, and reputational exposure.
  • Support portfolio processes such as legal obligations management, inter‑affiliate services oversight, and related control programs.
  • Translate complex data and metrics into insights to detect emerging risks and inform decision‑making.
  • Influence senior leaders and drive alignment to deliver timely, effective outcomes.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience in financial services across controls, audit, risk management, compliance, or quality assurance.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including root‑cause analysis, control deficiency identification, and metrics‑based risk monitoring.
  • Proven ability to design, implement, and evaluate control environments and risk‑mitigation solutions.
  • Demonstrated program execution and time‑management skills to meet strict deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.
  • Proficiency in process analysis and control design to reduce operational, regulatory, and reputational risks.
  • Ability to assess risk across legal, regulatory, operational, client, and reputational dimensions and apply materiality and practical judgment.
  • Change‑management and implementation skills, including writing actionable plans and procedures and driving sustainable adoption.
  • Capability to interrogate processes, simplify controls, and pursue innovative, technology‑enabled solutions where feasible.
  • Courage to challenge assumptions, foster accountability, and drive continuous improvement.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Visio).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Human Resources domain experience.
  • Experience strengthening control programs within HR, shared services, or people operations.


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.

Human Resources plays a critical role in driving the employee experience, shaping the firm’s culture and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are a strategic partner to the business — working with leaders across the firm to hire, develop and retain the best people and help meet business goals. Together, we foster a work environment in which our people are supported, feel like they belong and are able to make an impact through their work. We develop and deliver a suite of products and services that help make JPMorgan Chase an employer of choice and drive our business forward.

Join a high‑impact team where you will shape how we manage risk across Human Resources.