Global Custody Asset Servicing & Proxy Support - Analyst jobs at Jpmorgan in China, Kowloon

Job responsibilities

• Work autonomously as a member of the Corporate Tax team to provide regional tax advisory services across the various businesses
• Be responsible for product, transaction and platform advisory, review of new business initiatives, technical tax updates, tax compliance and general tax planning matters
• Partner closely with the line of business front office, Corporate Tax team colleagues, external advisors and functional support group personnel located both within and outside Asia to deliver technical and commercial tax advice
• Develop and manage effective controls for new products, existing global reporting regimes and work with responsible stakeholders to review and maintain oversight over existing products/ platforms/ processes
• Pursue constant and effective communication with all stakeholders

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Law or a related discipline
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in tax with an accounting firm, law firm or inhouse corporate with a focus on advisory
• Strong communication (both written and verbal) and partnership skills
• Well developed analytical thinking, attention to detail and positive/ proactive attitude

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of financial market products (including financial derivatives, stock brokerage, stock borrowing and lending, prime brokerage), fund management industry, common fund structures (including related portfolio taxes/treaty entitlements), and reporting regimes such as FATCA/ CRS
• HK stamp duty experience on financial market products
• Knowledge of US tax principles or broad based Asia tax experience
• Proficiency in both written and verbal Chinese language skills

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead daily operations related to Party Central, focusing on setup, maintenance, and updates on client accounts.
• Validate and diligently review documentation
• Ensure requests are authorized and clearly understood before actioning.
• Ensure the procedural guidelines are followed without any misses
• Proactively resolve open issues and escalations, keeping Management in the loop
• Act as a primary contact for internal stakeholders, ensuring effective communication.
• Should manage training needs of the team along with ensuring completion of the mandatory targets
• Provide expertise on client hierarchies, ownership structures, and regulatory obligations.
• Support audit requirements with timely and accurate data retrieval and documentation.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures and control frameworks.

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• University graduate with 3+ years of experience in financial services or related industries.
• Fluency in written and spoken English with strong communication skills.
• Proficiency in party reference data, client onboarding, and KYC processes.
• Proficient in advanced Excel and PowerPoint, with strong analytical skills and attention to detail.\

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyzing portfolios including positioning, analytics and performance results
• Creating and maintaining client presentations, marketing, performance commentary, and other client communications
• Responding to ad-hoc requests from clients and internal groups
• Facilitating meetings, both external (client pitches and portfolio reviews) and internal (product development and strategy meetings)
• Partnering with client advisors on new business opportunities (represent fixed income capabilities in meetings, facilitate RFPs, pitch decks)
• Developing in-depth understanding of fixed income investment portfolios

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 2+ years of experience with fixed income knowledge
• Interest in financial markets, economics and the insurance industry
• Bachelor’s degree
• Strong proficiency with PowerPoint slide creation and strong Excel skills required.
• Meet tight deadlines while possessing strong attention to detail
• Demonstrate ability to multi-task and re-prioritize quickly
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Quantitative skills - proficiency in basic financial calculations and high aptitude with numbers
• Adaptable, innovative, and results oriented, with excellent teamwork skills
• Series 7 & 63

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Other computer skills a plus

As an Investment Operations Associate within Asset Management Operations Middle Office team, you will oversee the Investment Book of Record, ensuring accuracy and timely escalation of discrepancies. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to design and drive comprehensive solutions that meet business requirements. Your role is crucial in supporting the development of new products and operating models, while ensuring compliance with market and regulatory changes.

Job responsibilities:

• Oversee the Investment Book of Record to ensure any securities, derivatives and cash position discrepancies are identified and escalated to the Portfolio Managers in a timely manner
• Collaborate with various stakeholders (portfolio managers, trading desk, business management, compliance, controls, risk, client service, operations, internal and external service providers) to design and drive comprehensive solutions that meet business requirements
• Partner with Client Onboarding Management teams to set up new products and design new operating models
• Oversee offshored and outsourced activity whilst ensuring performance and service levels are met
• Keep informed of market and regulatory changes impacting the businesses and ensure processes/controls are in place to support changes
• Manage projects and initiatives, such as process improvement, business model changes, system implementation, new product or new market initiatives rollouts, and other ad hoc projects
• Ensure that a highly robust first line control framework is put in place to avoid and mitigate trading and settlement risks

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• At least Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, or related disciplines
• At least of 5 years of relevant experience in Middle Office and/or Investment Operations related roles
• Exceptional expertise in the investment market and familiarity of cross asset expertise in the Derivatives market, with a strong understanding of the evolving market structure and regulatory environment
• Solid derivatives product knowledge of equity and fixed income related derivatives, including but not limited to Options, Forward, IRS, CDX, CDS, CFD
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with good command of written and spoken English
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and hybrid environment, a “can do” attitude and the willingness to learn new applications in an ever-changing environment
• A strong team player, passionate, detail-minded and keen to develop career in asset management industry

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Prior experience in Asset Management firm will be beneficial
• Fluency in Mandarin is an advantage
• Hold Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) is an advantage

As an Asset Servicing Analyst in Markets Asset Servicing team within CIB Operations, your primary focus will be interacting with fast paced trading desk, facilitate asset servicing optimization strategy and manage the risks throughout end-to-end corporation actions lifecycle from announcement capture up to event completion. You will communicate corporate action events to front office trading, middle office personnels, and other operations departments to ensure timely execution of client instructions.

Job responsibilities

• Vigilant coordination with client instructions to facilitate Asset Servicing optimization strategy
• Engage with front office, middle office, settlements, cash management, custodians, etc. to proactively manage the risk of high-profile corporate action events
• Drive various process enhancement and digital tools initiatives globally and regionally
• Receive, investigate, and respond to internal queries in a timely and accurate manner
• Facilitate the completion of regular and ad-hoc client, investor, and regulatory reporting requirements in a timely, accurate, and professional manner

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Minimum of 1 year of industry experience, with proven solid experience in day-to-day operation processing
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of Asset Servicing event processing
• Strong communication skills, articulate key risk and challenge of daily processing to management
• A good team player
• Flexible and comfortable to deal with pressure and fast paced, volume driven environment
• Exhibit strong analytical and problem solving skills coupled with independent and reliable decision-making skills
• Be a self-starter, with ability to work on own initiatives and to learn quickly
• Ability to follow tight deadlines, organize, and prioritize work
  

As an Associate in the NLP/LLM Data Scientist Team within Asset Management, you will be at the forefront of enhancing and facilitating various steps in our investment process. You will apply your passion for data science and machine learning to generate actionable insights for our business partners. Your work will directly contribute to improving our investment process, enhancing client experiences, and optimizing operational processes. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, technologists, and control partners to deploy solutions into production.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify business needs and develop NLP/ML solutions that address client needs and drive transformation.
• Apply large language models (LLMs), machine learning (ML) techniques, and statistical analysis to enhance informed decision-making and improve workflow efficiency, which can be utilized across investment functions, client services, and operational process.
• Collect and curate datasets for model training and evaluation.
• Perform experiments using different model architectures and hyperparameters, determine appropriate objective functions and evaluation metrics, and run statistical analysis of results.
• Monitor and improve model performance through feedback and active learning.
• Collaborate with technology teams to deploy and scale the developed models in production.
• Deliver written, visual, and oral presentation of modeling results to business and technical stakeholders.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest research in LLM, ML and data science. Identify and leverage emerging techniques to drive ongoing enhancement.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a quantitative or technical discipline or significant practical experience in industry.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in applying NLP, LLM and ML techniques in solving high-impact business problems, such as semantic search, information extraction, question answering, summarization, personalization, classification or forecasting.
• Advanced python programming skills with experience writing production quality code
• Good understanding of the foundational principles and practical implementations of ML algorithms such as clustering, decision trees, gradient descent etc.
• Hands-on experience with deep learning toolkits such as PyTorch, Transformers, HuggingFace.
• Strong knowledge of language models, prompt engineering, model finetuning, and domain adaptation.
• Familiarity with latest development in deep learning frameworks.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts and results to both technical and business audiences.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Prior experience in an Asset Management line of business
• Exposure to distributed model training, and deployment
• Familiarity with techniques for model explainability and self-validation