JOB DESCRIPTION

Embark on your journey as an Argentina FX & Foreign Trade (Comercio Exterior) Specialist where you'll be instrumental in managing the operational lifecycle of cross-border flows and FX-linked activities. Your expertise in Argentine foreign trade regulation and FX controls will help ensure accurate execution, timely cash coordination, and ongoing compliance amid frequent regulatory updates impacting trade and FX products.

As a Trade Lifecycle Manager II within JPMorganChase, you will play a pivotal role in managing day-to-day operations supporting Foreign Trade (Comercio Exterior) and FX product-related workflows in Argentina. You will ensure transactions are processed correctly across platforms, cash movements are executed and reconciled, and regulatory and documentation requirements are met. You will be expected to apply advanced analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve complex exceptions and to drive continuous improvements, including automation and controls strengthening. Your role will involve close partnership with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Technology, and internal stakeholders, as well as effective communication and escalation to senior management when needed.

Job responsibilities

• Oversee operational processing for Argentina cross-border / foreign trade and FX-related flows, ensuring accurate booking, monitoring, and completion of lifecycle activities and cash movements.
• Ensure adherence to foreign trade and cross-border regulatory requirements, including trade/FX documentation validation, operational controls, and required reporting obligations.
• Monitor and interpret FX controls and FX regulatory changes in Argentina, assess operational impact, and translate changes into updated procedures, controls, and execution steps.
• Manage exceptions and investigations (breaks/fails), ensuring timely resolution, proper documentation, and effective escalation aligned with risk and service standards.
• Partner with Compliance/Legal/Risk to maintain alignment with regulatory expectations and internal policies; support audits, control testing, and evidence production as required.
• Drive process improvements and automation initiatives to enhance efficiency, reduce operational risk, and improve transparency for FX and foreign trade workflows.
• Support testing and implementation of regulatory-driven changes (e.g., UAT, regression testing, production readiness), coordinating with Technology and business stakeholders.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in a bank Foreign Trade / Trade Finance (Comercio Exterior) environment supporting cross-border transaction processing and related operational controls.
• Experience with foreign trade and cross-border regulatory requirements in Argentina, including understanding of applicable trade/FX documentation, reporting obligations, and operational controls in a banking environment.
• Working knowledge of FX controls and FX regulatory requirements (Argentina), including handling and validation of FX-related documentation, monitoring regulatory-driven changes, and ensuring operational processes remain compliant.
• Ability to manage impacts from FX regulatory changes on trade lifecycle and cash movement workflows, including updating procedures, coordinating with Compliance/Legal, and supporting testing/implementation of required process or system changes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to handle complex exceptions, identify root causes, and propose sustainable remediation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including clear written/verbal communication and ability to influence across Operations, Front Office, Treasury, Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Technology.
• Strong skills with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience driving automation, controls strengthening, or process reengineering within foreign trade / FX operations.
• Familiarity with end-to-end cash positioning/forecasting and reconciliation processes linked to cross-border and FX flows.
• Experience supporting audits, regulatory exams, and operational risk governance for FX and foreign trade activities.

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.


ABOUT THE TEAM

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.