Back Office Associate - Securities Operations jobs at Jpmorgan in Argentina, Buenos Aires

As a Digital & Platform Services - Markets Operations Finance Management Associate within the Finance Management team, you will partner across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis, oversight, and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. You will be responsible for key financial measures such as expenses, headcount, or financial and headcount modeling, delivering value-added financial reporting and analysis, and assisting with strategic direction and decision-making. You will provide leadership across the finance teams and interact regularly with Operations or Technology Managers and peers across Finance & Business Management.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Calculate and consolidation of the month-end results, the forecast for the remainder of the year, and the budget for future years
• Perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and provide commentary explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
• Produce weekly/monthly/quarterly and ad hoc reporting of the results and drivers for senior management
• Enhance controls and streamline processes, introducing automation where possible
• Work on projects to drive global consistency and create synergies across the team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature.
• 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in the Finance and Planning field.
• Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly.
• Highly motivated and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Integrity in handling highly sensitive and confidential information.
• Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, or experience with Alteryx, BI tools, databases and SQL Querying.

Job responsibilities

• Designs and delivers trusted data collection, storage, access, and analytics data platform solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way
• Supports review of controls to ensure sufficient protection of enterprise data
• Advises and makes custom configuration changes in one to two tools to generate a product at the business or customer request
• Updates logical or physical data models based on new use cases
• Frequently uses SQL and understands NoSQL databases and their niche in the marketplace
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Data engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience

• Hands-on professional experience (actively coding) working as a data engineer
• Good hands on experience in Python, Snowflake and Databricks
• Experience across the data lifecycle
• Advanced at SQL (e.g., joins and aggregations)
• Working understanding of NoSQL databases
• Significant experience with statistical data analysis and ability to determine appropriate tools and data patterns to perform analysis
• Experience customizing changes in a tool to generate product
• Experience with containers and container-based deployment environment (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Understanding of (distributed and non-distributed) data structures, caching concepts, CAP theorem
• A solid approach to writing unit level tests using mocking frameworks, as well as automating component, integration and end-to-end tests
• Experience in automating deployment, releases and testing in continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines
• Understanding of security frameworks / standards and privacy

As a Control Manager within the Legal Oversight & Controls team, you will play a pivotal role in supporting and further enhancing the Legal department’s control environment. This position requires expertise in risk and control management, including real-time detection of control issues, escalation processes, root cause analysis, and remediation strategies. You will have the opportunity to both utilize and assess AI and machine learning applications and will also focus on the data risk control environment.Your knowledge of risk management principles, practices, and theories will enable you to promote innovative solutions in a dynamic and evolving risk landscape.

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as a trusted control advisor to Legal department personnel and management, providing assistance and guidance in adhering to the operational risk framework and implementing controls to effectively mitigate operational risk.
• Provide support for the execution of risk and control assessments, including identification of control breaks and resolutions to minimize financial loss, regulatory exposure, and reputational risk.
• Partner with the Legal department’s Chief Data and Analytics office to implement policies/standards and assess controls over the implementation of AI/ML and oversight of data controls
• Partner with process owners to be execute on firmwide programs, e.g. data risk management, privacy, legal obligation mapping to processes and risk, compliance and operational risk assessments,
• Engage with partners in the lines of business that Legal supports and our attorneys, risk, compliance, audit, technology, and control partners to mitigate operational risk.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Five+ years of relevant risk and control assessment experience in financial services, risk management, audit, quality assurance, compliance, or relevant discipline.
• Ability to probe and question in order to understand the operational risk environment within Legal with an eye to designing and implementing controls
• Understanding of data risks (data use, protection, quality, storage and retention), management and controls
• Possess a sense of urgency, intellectual curiosity, flexibility in shifting and competing priorities and deliverables, problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to interact confidently with various levels of employees and managers throughout Legal and the firm.
• Advanced Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Process/workflow evaluation and documentation experience.
• Knowledge of JPMC CORE framework a plus.

Job Description

As a Transaction Processing Analyst in Security Services Operations, you'll provide operational support within our Corporate Investment Bank. You will be responsible for ensuring that all aspects of transaction management for clients are completed on time and exceptions and client inquiries are resolved. You will also provide subject matter expertise to clients. Additional responsibilities may include managing daily regulatory reporting tasks and remediation activities, as well as process improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Review of legal documentation and input of key parameters from the legal documentation into the systems of JP Morgan.
• Identify issues and co-ordinate with the relevant functions internally (eg: credit, legal etc) for prompt resolution on disputed points within set time-frame parameters
• Working with key partners in legal, business, operations and technology, contribute towards the development of an efficient operating framework
• Working closely with regional Legal operations Department (which has the overall responsibility for Master Agreement Negotiation and Transactions), the business and other stakeholders.
• Productivity and Quality will be the measure of performance for this role. Producing good quality work is therefore paramount to the success of the candidate in the organization
• Take lead on process improvement and automation
• Manage assigned tasks independently with little or no supervision
• Have a control mindset and be alert to issues and risks that have impact on process or to the organization

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

• Thorough understanding of the legal language to interpret the documents provided and impact to the Firm
• Understanding of the financial services industry, products, and processes
• Strong analytical skills with excellent oral and written communications skills
• Attention to detail and ability to perform tasks with high degree of accuracy
• A strong sense of ownership and responsibility
• Excellent client focus and customer care working practices
• Bachelor’s degree
• Strong computer skills (MS Excel, Word, PPT, Outlook, etc.)
• Willingness and flexibility to work during US hours

As a Credit Risk Associate in the Asset Based Lending Group of the Commercial and Investment Bank, your responsibility will be to: i.) support in the management of a portfolio of Global Corporate Banking (”GCB”) and Investment Bank (“IB”) clients that have Asset Based loans and ii.) support in the independent analysis and review of credit exposure for new and existing ABL clients, in a second chair capacity until such time that the Associate demonstrates ability to work as the primary ABL credit contact. ABL Credit Risk professionals lead the ABL client credit relationship along with GCB and IB Bankers who manage the overall relationship, as well as partnering closely with the IB credit team and ABL Originations/Syndications. The role involves extensive interaction with clients, product and functional partners, internal and external legal counsel, lenders, and investors.

Job Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of the credit relationship, including credit analysis, financial modeling and coordinating credit approval for all products including loans, derivatives, leases, and cash management.
• Proactively support and enhance client relationships.
• Recommend changes in structure and account management strategy to address negative trends. Assess monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and ongoing borrowing base reporting and collateral diligence and monitoring. Assigns and assesses internal ratings, risk assessment, and risk mitigation.
• Participate in structuring and negotiating Credit Agreements, amendments, waivers and related legal documents.
• Manage and monitor loan products including affirmative, negative, and financial covenant compliance. Manage on-going communication with bank group members.
• Review, interpret, and implement findings from collateral appraisals and field exams. On-going monitoring of collateral trends and liquidity, establishing reserves, and recommending appropriate course of action to address issues.
• Partner with Bankers, IB Credit, ABL Originations/Syndications, Debt Capital Markets, Syndicated Leveraged Finance, Treasury Services, Leasing, Derivatives, and Loan Operations.
• Communicate with Senior Management, respond to regulatory requests, and maintain internal credit files.
• Support the credit team in projection modeling, independent analysis, and review of new or modified ABL exposure for prospects and existing clients.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Minimum 3 plus years experience in Credit Risk with Asset Based Lending knowledge a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field is preferred
• Formal credit training a plus