Risk Governance - Commercial Solutions - Vice President Greater Columbus, OH Area

Bring your expertise to JPMorgan Chase and help shape the future of Risk Governance within Commercial Solutions. As a Vice President, you will play a critical leadership role in strengthening governance, enhancing regulatory readiness, and driving disciplined execution across the CS Risk organization. You will partner with senior Risk, Credit, Operations, and Control stakeholders to translate complex requirements into effective governance practices and measurable outcomes. This is an opportunity to influence how risk is managed, decisions are made, and change is implemented across a dynamic commercial lending business.

As a Vice President, Risk Governance in Commercial Solutions (Dealership Financing), you will provide strategic leadership for designing, executing, and continuously enhancing governance processes that enable consistent, compliant, and transparent risk management. This role partners closely with CS Risk leadership (including the Risk Governance & Policy Manager, Credit Risk approval teams and managers, risk stakeholders, Operations partners, and cross-functional control groups to drive accountability, operational efficiency, and effective change management across governance deliverables.

This position will serve as a key point of coordination for governance forums and leadership routines, ensuring high-quality materials, clear actions, and measurable outcomes—while reinforcing a culture of risk awareness and credible challenge.

Job responsibilities

• Governance operating model leadership: Own the CS Risk governance roadmap, including standards for policy/procedure lifecycle management, change controls, approvals, and communications; ensure alignment to applicable firmwide wholesale governance expectations.
• Document governance & change management: Maintain a robust governance program for CS Risk requirements, procedures, job aids, and templates; ensure disciplined inventory management, annual reviews, version/change control, and stakeholder communications for updates and retirements.
• Regulatory readiness & oversight leadership: Lead governance support for regulatory exams, audits, and other oversight activities impacting CS Risk; drive consistent preparation, issue tracking, and timely delivery of responses and evidence in partnership with key control stakeholders.
• Credit authority governance: Own the credit/lending authority governance process for CS Risk, including annual and quarterly certifications, documentation, approvals, and coordination to ensure systems and records remain current and accurate.
• Management committee and forum leadership (meeting management): Establish and run a disciplined cadence for governance meetings and forums; set agendas and obtain speaker information in advance, ensure pre-reads are decision-quality, capture minutes/actions, and drive follow-through to closure across stakeholders.
• Portfolio and operational oversight enablement: Produce and socialize governance reporting, including key risk, control, and portfolio management metrics; elevate themes, risks, and decisions needed by leadership and partners.
• Business resiliency & process governance: Lead governance for business resiliency planning and business process documentation; evaluate incident management learnings and drive enhancements to recovery strategies and process clarity.
• Business management enablement: Act as a senior connector across Operations partners and tooling, including access governance and shared site/content hygiene; improve transparency, find efficiencies, and strengthen execution across the CS Risk operating rhythm.
• People leadership and stakeholder management: Influence across multiple levels of management, coach junior governance resources as applicable, and build durable relationships that promote open & timely risk identification, escalation, and resolution practices.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree, in Finance, Accounting, or related business discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 5 years of experience developing and managing governance frameworks, controls, audit, operations risk, or related disciplines, preferably supporting wholesale commercial lending products, credit processes, and risk governance documents (policies, standards, etc).
• Working knowledge of wholesale/commercial lending, including the ability to interpret policy requirements, assess applicability, and drive consistent implementation across stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead governance forums and senior-leader meeting cadences, producing clear executive materials and driving actions/decisions to closure.
• Proven strength in process design, transformation efficiencies, process mapping/flow analysis, and identifying control requirements and governance touchpoints across end-to-end workflows.
• Strong written and verbal communication skillset, including the ability to synthesize complex topics into crisp governance updates and recommendations.
• Strong organizational discipline, attention to detail, and ability to deliver in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Sharepoint.

To be eligible for this role, you must be authorized to work in the United States. We do not offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this role. Likewise, JPMorgan Chase & Co. will not provide any assistance or sign any documentation in support of any other form of immigration sponsorship or benefit, including optional practical training (OPT) or curricular practical training (CPT).

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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