Global Investment Banking - Analyst jobs at Jpmorgan in Australia, Sydney

As an Analyst/Associate you will be a key player in our business strategy and execution. You will participate in the full cycle of transactional execution including preparing marketing pitches, reviewing and formulating financial analysis, preparing and presenting internal committee memoranda and client presentations. You will play a leadership role in implementing the execution function including working with analysts and associates, as well as assisting more senior bankers. You will have strong function skills in the major areas of investment banking and will demonstrate the ability to become a senior officer who is capable of generating and executing his/her own transactions. Most importantly, the candidate will be highly enthusiastic about J.P. Morgan's mission and be driven and committed to its success.

Job Responsibilities:

• Working with senior bankers in originating, structuring and executing financing and advisory transactions across various products including M&As, IPOs, bonds, loans and structured products
• Developing content in marketing/execution materials for maximum client impact
• Creating financial models and detailed valuation analysis for pitches / projects
• Interacting with senior team members and client management teams to execute transactions and identifying and managing all risks in a given deal
• Guiding, reviewing and coordinating the analytic work of junior bankers to move marketing / execution process forward
• Liaising with internal and external parties on transactions (e.g. lawyers, accountants, counterparties)
• Providing leadership and mentorship in guiding and training junior bankers
• Leading client negotiations, Q&A process and management interviews

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Finance/Economics or a related field from a top tier educational institution
• Minimum 1 year of work experience in an investment banking front office role
• Strong financial modelling skills
• Understands transaction cycle and the steps in the process and is execution oriented
• Impeccable communication details with the ability to effectively interact with senior professionals, clients and key stakeholders in other line of business
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work independently
• Real Estate sector experience preferred although not essential

As an Associate in the Investment Information Services team, you will be responsible for interpreting guidelines, building investment rules, investigation of potential violations and partnering with the investment manager and/or the client to assess their needs and provide solutions. In your new role, you will be exposed to a wide gamut of financial products, including Equities, Fixed Income securities and Complex Assets.

Job Responsibilities

• Interpret guidelines and investment mandates to develop logic-based rules for effective compliance monitoring.
• Implement client requirements for prospectus and rule changes on the compliance platform, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Conduct meticulous root-cause analysis of investment exceptions, including portfolio holdings, composition, historical transactions, and data verification for compliance.
• Resolve compliance exceptions by communicating with clients, fund managers for true exceptions, and upstream teams for data or coding gaps.
• Prepare and deliver comprehensive manual regulatory and client reports, ensuring accuracy and compliance with standards.
• Stay informed on regulatory developments and industry trends in post-trade compliance, providing insights and strategic recommendations to management.
• Collaborate with clients to review and implement changes in global post-trade monitoring regulations, establishing a standard set of regulatory rules.
• Monitor client mailbox, ensuring all queries are resolved urgently and rule coding requests are routed and addressed within set timelines.
• Interface with Controls, Audit, and Risk teams to review, analyse, and enhance all process-related controls for compliance assurance.
• Participate in client calls to review services and discuss ongoing projects, ensuring alignment with client expectations and requirements.
• Support new client onboarding by providing functional expertise and developing customised compliance solutions tailored to client needs.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hold a graduate or postgraduate degree with at least 8 years of experience in financial services, mutual funds, or stock broking.
• Possess extensive experience in post-trade compliance roles within investment banks, asset management, or brokerage firms.
• Demonstrate proficiency in software applications and systems for post-trade compliance monitoring and reporting.
• Have working knowledge in guideline coding on compliance systems like Charles River, Sentinel, and Aladdin.
• Exhibit strong knowledge of global regulatory requirements affecting post-trade activities.
• Understand complex instruments, fixed income, and equity products in depth.
• Exhibit knowledge of the asset management industry, including mutual, pension, insurance, and hedge funds operations.
• Demonstrate outstanding analytical skills for creating logic-based investment rules.
• Maintain a high standard of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Exhibit excellent organisational skills to prioritise workloads and meet stringent timelines.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, building trusted relationships.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced degree or professional certification including but not limited to Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Company Secretary (CS), Financial Risk Manager (FRM) qualifications preferred.
• Experience with automation tools (Alteryx, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Python, etc.) to create efficiencies will be preferred.
• Certification course in Credit Risk Management (CRD), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act), European regulations preferred.

As an Analyst in the Credit Risk team, you will play a pivotal role in assessing and managing credit exposures for a diverse portfolio of institutional and corporate clients. Your analytical skills will be crucial in preparing detailed credit memoranda and financial models, providing insights into market trends and industry developments. Collaborating with internal stakeholders, you will ensure that our credit ratings are accurate and reflective of current conditions. This role offers the opportunity to engage in due diligence, structuring, and documentation of transactions, contributing to the firm's strategic objectives. Your contributions will support the team's efforts in maintaining robust credit and regulatory reporting standards, while also participating in various initiatives and workstreams.

Job responsibilities

• Support the management of exposures on an assigned portfolio of institutional and corporate clients across a range of industries in conjunction with seniors team members
• Prepare forward looking credit memoranda, along with necessary financial modelling, to provide risk assessment views on both new transactions and for existing clients and their industries
• Track market and industry developments and their impact on clients
• Recommend and monitor internal credit ratings
• Support senior team members with completing due diligence, structuring and documentation on new transactions
• Interact with internal stakeholders including client coverage and product bankers
• Prepare and monitor various credit and regulatory reporting requirements
• Support the team with ongoing ad-hoc initiatives and workstreams

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Undergraduate degree or postgraduate qualifications in accounting, business, finance, or a quantitative-related discipline
• Experience in a credit risk or credit analysis role within institutional, investment banking, or corporate banking
• Ability to identify key issues and concerns relating to clients, their industries, and transaction structures
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated good time management and clarity in thinking when dealing with multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to foster relationships and confidently interact with origination teams and other internal stakeholders
• Proficiency in MS Excel and ability to navigate complex financial models, as well as other MS programs (PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)

As a Global Banking Business Manager, Vice President within the Global Banking Technology team, you will partner with CTOs and Product Owners to promote strategic decisions impacting resource capacity planning, financial planning, and overall direction. You will be part of a dynamic and evolving group, contributing to financial planning, resource management, and program governance. This role requires strong relationship management skills, deep financial knowledge, and the ability to analyze and simplify large data sets to effectively communicate financial insights via business reviews and executive-level presentations.

Job responsibilities

• Establish yourself as the trusted Business Management advisor to Product and Technology leadership
• Lead CTO and Product owner business reviews; create decks and present to leadership during quarterly reviews
• Own the annual budgeting process for assigned organizations; including accurate alignment of expenses to applicable projects, application total cost of ownership and transparency of financials
• Manage and ensure the project portfolio system (Pi) is in synch with the financial system (P&L). Understands nuances of balancing the two systems and proactively addresses deviations from one system to the other
• Understand how the client’s aligned products allocate out to LOB and sub-LOBs and face off with the impact LOBs as needed to help tell the story
• Lead data-driven analyses to provide transparency and enable decision-making
• Adhere to the product taxonomy ensuring all expenses are aligned accurately
• Action all necessary items during month-end to ensure a proper close in conjunction with finance; including allocations, timesheet booking, vendor mapping, and capacity alignment

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field
• 6+ years of experience in business management and/or finance
• Proven expertise in financial management, planning, and analysis within a technology or product organization
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages to diverse audiences
• Advanced Excel skills for synthesizing large data sets and presenting conclusions concisely in PowerPoint
• Strong business acumen and strategic mindset to unpack complex problems, develop solutions, and manage execution
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of creating clear, concise materials for senior-level audiences
• Team-oriented with the ability to build strong relationships
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather and interpret data inputs for presentation development

As an Analyst within the team, you will be responsible for working alongside and supporting senior members of the team to advise, market to and execute transactions for Australian corporations, financial institutions and private equity sponsors

Job Responsibilities:

• Assisting with the origination and execution of domestic and international debt capital markets transactions
• Supporting client pitching and negotiation through the preparation of clear and succinct marketing materials, including market updates, pitch materials, pricing information and case studies
• Helping put together trade ideas and recommendations for clients including analysis of debt market funding options and execution considerations across alternative markets
• Supporting the execution of transactions, including assisting in the drafting of marketing materials, offering documentation and relative value analysis
• Maintaining a current understanding of trends in the local and international leveraged finance and debt capital markets, and communicating this via market updates to internal and external stakeholders
• Interacting and building relationships with clients at junior levels
• Liaising with other internal and external parties on transactions (eg. sector investment bankers, global debt syndicates, lawyers, compliance, accountants, other banks etc)

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor degree in Economics or Finance or a relevant tertiary qualifications
• Prior work experience working in debt capital markets / leveraged finance or a banking front office, or related, role
• An understanding of the transaction cycle and international capital markets coupled with an execution oriented approach
• Strong accounting, finance, quantitative and business writing skills
• A well-rounded academic background from a top tier educational institution
• Impeccable communication details with the ability to effectively interact with senior professionals, clients and key stakeholders in other line of business
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work independently

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Ability to successfully prioritize and deliver competing requirements
• Confident, assertive and articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Clear thinking and concise communication, and strong attention to detail
• Ability to demonstrate utmost discretion and professionalism at all times

Job Responsibilities:

• Work in collaboration with Bankers to help originate and generate new banking opportunities from both prospective and/or existing clients.
• Identify, assess and review client profiles, credit transaction risks, structuring and documentation of client credit requests.
• Collaborate closely with credit underwriting teams on client and credit risk analysis, transaction structuring and documentation relating to credit requests.
• Act as a primary point of contact for existing clients with key responsibility for following through with day to day / reverse enquiries
• Managing and providing support to the deal team towards generating continuous financing, corporate finance, treasury services, and markets opportunities.
• Lead the review of complex financial models used to assist internal credit decisioning, particularly for new to bank transactions

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics or other related disciplines.
• Minimum 1 years of prior experience within Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, with strong credit or corporate finance background
• Strong credit, analytical, and financial modeling skills, knowledge of corporate or investment banking products and execution experience.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills. and strong attention to detail.
• The ability to be a highly motivated, productive team player. Partnership and collaborative mindset are essential as work will often overlap with various stakeholders such as industry partners, product partners and investment banking teams.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and proactive; outstanding ethics, integrity and judgment.
• Superior and proven skillsets in Excel and Power Point.

Job Summary:

As an Associate/Vice President in the Infrastructure and Utilities Investment Banking team, you will play a pivotal role in executing the firm's business strategies and developing client relationships. You will work alongside senior bankers, gaining hands-on experience and contributing to the team's success. This role offers training, mentoring, and numerous development opportunities within an inclusive and high performance team culture. The team has an established track-record specialising in providing advice to global institutional clients on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and strategic advisory across critical Australian infrastructure assets such as ports, toll roads, regulated utilities, renewables and digital infrastructure.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with senior bankers in originating, structuring, and executing advisory transactions across various products lines including M&A, equity capital markets and debt capital markets.
• Act as the primary day-to-day client point of contact, focusing on Australian deals while also engaging in global cross-border transactions.
• Develop impactful marketing materials to maximise client engagement and exceptional qualitative and numerical analysis capability to add value for clients and ensure best-in-class transaction execution outcomes.
• Coordinate with internal teams across products and countries, as well as external parties, such as clients, lawyers, accountants, and consultants, to ensure seamless delivery.
• Advise clients on integrated financial solutions, including all manner of capital raising and financial instruments including equity capital raising (listed and unlisted), bond issuance, senior and subordinated lending, and derivatives.
• Provide timely market insights and strategic observations to clients and internal teams.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in investment banking or investment management, with a focus on traditional or emerging infrastructure.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or adjacent disciplines (Law, Engineering / STEM)
• Proven transaction experience and proficiency with industry trends.
• Highly driven, detail-oriented, and diligent, with strong analytical, communication, and writing skills.
• Strong financial modelling background with infrastructure or other real assets.
• Ability to interact comfortably with business clients and management, demonstrating strong business acumen and a proven track record in developing and maintaining relationships.
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work independently and collaboratively within teams.