Assessments & Exercises Senior Associate

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
Join our dedicated team in a role where your expertise in risk assessments and cybersecurity exercises propels forward our mission of safeguarding our operations and enhancing resiliency. This position offers the unique opportunity to shape our security posture and contribute to our continuous improvement in an environment that values innovation and teamwork.

**Job responsibilities**
- Participate in effective planning, design, conduct, and evaluation of both internal and external resiliency simulations and testing in accordance with the firm’s business and technology standards as well as global regulatory frameworks
- Support across all aspects of exercise project management, spanning the entire engagement lifecycle (i.e., plan, design, conduct, and assess) to include scheduling meetings, reserving venues, facilitating discussions, and providing senior leader project updates
- Coordinate with key stakeholders across the firm to develop tailored, all-hazards simulation scenarios that achieve business, resiliency, technology, and/or cyber incident response objectives
- Support post-exercise after-action analysis, reporting, and assessment, synthesize corrective actions, implement tracking/monitoring of progress, and design future simulations to validate improvements
- Identify and address opportunities in process, procedures, tooling, and knowledge management.
- Support overall team strategy and capability uplift initiatives to drive rapid maturity

**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**
- Minimum 3 years of experience in planning, developing, and coordinating incident response playbooks, runbooks, or other key operational processes across a large organization. General knowledge of, and experience working within, the financial services sector is preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering or related disciplines
- Ability to perform on specific weekends to support testing events
- Familiarity with how key international financial systems operate, to include an understanding of the current threat landscape, operational resiliency considerations, and possible systemic risk scenarios. Experience formulating and/or interpreting threat and risk analyses of cyber adversary techniques, technology disruptions, terrorist attacks, severe weather, and other major hazards
- Experience developing and presenting briefings to collaborative partners in addition to large group meeting facilitation and logistics planning
- Excellent writing skills and ability to communicate effectively. Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office and related technologies. Background in metrics development, risk analysis & visualization, and automation is a plus.

**Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills**
- Hold relevant industry certifications showing expertise in cybersecurity and technology testing methodologies or resiliency
- Knowledge/experience in technology and business infrastructure
- Experience in proactive threat monitoring, assessment and analysis

**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.

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.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

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.