Legal Assistant General Counsel - Office Secretary jobs at Jpmorgan in Germany, Frankfurt

As an Assistant Vice President attorney within our Commercial and Investment Bank (CIB) Legal team, you will be responsible for providing legal advice to the internal functions and lines of business operated by JPMC across the European Economic Area and EMEA region more generally. You will report to the Frankfurt-based lawyer in CIB Legal who, together with their team, is responsible for advising the Securities Services and Payments businesses.

Job responsibilities

• Provide legal advice and transactional support to the Securities Services (including Custody and Depositary Services ) and Payments (including Treasury Services and Trade) businesses, in coordination with the global Practice Groups;
• Provide legal advice to the J.P. Morgan legal entities that are active in Germany on their own legal matters as part of the Corporate Legal Practice Group;
• Assist in the development of policies, procedures and standard forms;
• Liaise with and assist outside counsel, as necessary, in legal matters related to these coverage areas;
• Advise on legal and regulatory developments;
• Support select special projects (long-term and short-term).

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• German-qualified lawyer with previous working experience on financial services, transactional or litigation matters in a major law firm, large multi-national corporation or equivalent;
• Familiarity with the legal and regulatory frameworks governing large financial institution products, services, and transactions in the substantive coverage areas;
• Strong project management skills;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Ability to develop and maintain solid relationships with internal and external clients;
• Confidence and experience translating complex legal concepts into practical solutions;
• Creative solution and problem-solving skills;
• Spoken and written fluency in German and English is incremental.

As a Associate or Vice President in the SIDM team, you will originate and distribute structured investments linked to equity, commodities, currency, fixed income, and hybrid assets. You will partner with trading desks globally to enhance product offerings and manage the deal origination process. Your role will involve driving the team's systems and technology agenda, supporting client coverage, and representing JPMorgan at client conferences and events.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive the team's systems and technology agenda, focusing on automated pricing, structuring, and execution of Structured Solutions.
• Support new and existing client coverage for Structured Solutions across asset classes, including structured products, funds, and OTC derivatives.
• Manage sales partnerships across distribution channels to maximize product breadth and platform efficiency.
• Represent JPMorgan at client conferences/events, including speaking engagements, and support senior salespeople with presentations and marketing.
• Price and structure transactions (primarily equity) to meet investor requirements.
• Manage the deal origination process, working with Trading, Legal, and Operations.
• Partner with Cross Asset Structuring teams to enhance product offerings.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Thrive in a fast-paced environment with real-time market pressures, remaining focused on client needs.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to engage and influence partners and stakeholders.
• Attentive to detail and adaptable to changing conditions.
• Fundamental understanding of equity market & derivatives, including their pricing components, with technical skills.
• Initiative to question processes and seek enhancements.
• Language skills in German, French, or Italian, and fluency in English.
• Extensive experience working with Swiss clients in sales.

As an Executive Assistant within the Finance CFO Office, you will be instrumental in managing complex scheduling tasks, organizing travel arrangements, and supervising administrative operations. Your adeptness at handling sensitive information with confidentiality and your robust work ethic will be vital to your success. You will collaborate closely with business management and key stakeholders, becoming an integral part of the business and gaining insight into group priorities. Your role will be crucial in ensuring adherence to Corporate and Investment Banking/Firmwide policies while maintaining a focus on business and client deliverables.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage advanced diary tasks, including internal and external meetings, conference calls, and organizing events.
• Coordinate travel and entertainment, ensuring compliance with policies.
• Process expenses by collaborating with teams and enforcing policies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business management and key stakeholders.
• Utilize internal systems for accurate data entry and reporting.
• Oversee administrative tasks such as managing distribution lists.
• Integrate into the business by understanding group priorities.
• Partner with assistants across lines of business to provide coverage.
• Participate in PowerPoint presentations, projects, and training.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Fluent in German and English.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent time management and scheduling abilities.
• High-level technical skills and understanding of expense systems.
• Ability to work under pressure with a polished and composed manner.
• Proactive and responsible, demonstrating initiative within the role.
• Adaptability and flexibility in a changing environment.
• Attention to detail and high-quality results.
• Understanding of investment bank culture and political landscape.
• Team player with a solution-oriented mindset.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in professional client handling and building business relationships.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements

A successful Administrative Assistant possesses structure, attention to detail, quality focus, high energy and flexibility to a high-paced deadline driven organization.

As a Business Assistant within our Commercial & Investment Bank team, you will work in a team environment, represent the manager/group with professional courtesy and acumen, and deliver flawless work output. Your daily routine wll include interaction with various executive level internal clients across the lines of businesses. You will need to adapt procedures, processes and techniques to complete assignments in line with the department's activities and goals.

Job responsibilities

• Maintain complex and detailed calendars. Arrange and coordinate complicated domestic and international travel
• Screen incoming calls and determine the level of priority, while using caution in dispensing information
• Manage the coordination and logistics of both internal and external meetings. Organize all aspects for offsite conferences and external events, including catering and transportation
• Process invoices and T&E expense claims for team members. Ensure all policies are followed and items are processed within provided guidelines. Act as a subject matter experts for policies and procedures
• Assist with staff on-boarding and off-boarding, which includes requesting equipment setup and system access
• Produce high quality emails and messages to individuals at all levels of the organization
• Maintain current organizational charts and Executive Bio’s
• Handle regular activities without prompting, and advise in advance with issues or delays
• Assist in editing spreadsheets and presentations, including printing and binding, for client meetings
• Work cooperatively with the administrative assistants team, in positive partnership to support each other smoothly
• Lead and coordinate on ad hoc projects as requested

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• At least five years of administrative experience, ideally supporting at the Managing Director level (or equivalent) or above
• Advanced ability to organize
• Tact and good judgment in confidential situations, and proven experience interacting with senior management
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Excellent telephone etiquette and ability to manage competing priorities i.e. calendar management

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• College degree is a plus

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze infrastructure spend and budget trends to identify cost-saving opportunities and ensure spending aligns with organizational goals.
• Review application architecture and design to pinpoint and implement cost-efficient design patterns and strategies, and make informed product recommendations.
• Collaborate with application owners to develop and execute optimization plans, ensuring measurable financial gains are tracked and reported.
• Provide clear and timely communication of project status, progress, and outcomes to relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct detailed analysis to identify potential areas for further cost reduction and develop actionable plans to achieve these savings.
• Oversee the management and maintenance of code for existing FinOps applications, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Innovate and develop new features and capabilities based on user requirements to enhance FinOps applications and drive efficiency.

Required Skills:

• Formal training or certification on complex problem analysis and business requirement understanding concepts and proficient applied experience
• Ability to analyze complex problems and business requirements, recommending innovative solutions.
• Expertise in identifying and designing cost-efficient application patterns by understanding and applying principles of good architecture.
• Solid understanding of technology infrastructure (cloud and on-premise) and cost management.
• Sound understanding of Cloud products, pricing, and FinOps methodologies.
• Hands-on attitude with a focus on objectives and results.
• Reliable, assertive, and independent working attitude.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience with FinOps frameworks and certifications (e.g., FinOps Certified Practitioner).
• Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Designs, develops, tests, and implements Equities Order Management Systems
• Defines architecture patterns aligning with business and technical strategies
• Collaborates with a global team to deliver new features and bug fixes
• Understands business requirements, prioritize demands with stakeholders, translate to technical tasks and prepare delivery plan
• Assists in rolling out system upgrades and provide expert technical support
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)- Java/J2EE
• Expertise in low latency application development , and Core Java concepts
• Proficient in Linux, SQL and scripting
• Experience with large-scale distributed applications in mission-critical environments
• Familiarity with message/event-driven applications and Messaging APIs like JMS
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

• Knowledge of FIX Protocol , and Trade lifecycle is a plus
• Experience working in financial services technology
• Practical cloud native experience

As a Senior Executive Assistant within our EMEA Currencies & Emerging Markets division, you will support senior stakeholders, demonstrating solid background as an Senior Executive Assistant, flexibility, confidentiality, and a strong work ethic. This role demands excellent time management, resourcefulness, diligence, and a focus on business and client deliverables.

Job responsibilities

• Manage advanced diary tasks by proactively handling internal and external meetings, conference calls, and organizing events such as Off-Sites, Town Halls, and Skip-Levels.
• Coordinate travel and entertainment by partnering with relevant groups to book arrangements, ensuring compliance with CIB/Firmwide policies.
• Handle client interactions by managing internal and external communications, coordinating department schedules and transactional activities.
• Process expenses by collaborating with teams to manage costs, enforcing policies, and ensuring timely handover of required information.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business management and key stakeholders across lines of business (LoB).
• Utilize internal systems for accurate data entry, reporting, and information collation.
• Oversee administrative tasks such as managing distribution lists and technology usage.
• Integrate into the business by understanding group priorities and expectations.
• Partner with assistants across LoB to provide coverage as needed.
• Participate in PowerPoint presentations, projects, and training based on performance.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrate language proficiency by being fluent in German and English.
• Build and maintain business relationships through professional client handling.
• Apply good judgment in diary management and understand competing priorities, manage time efficiently through effective scheduling.
• Communicate effectively with strong written and verbal skills.
• Arrange travel by creating itineraries and optimizing time and costs.
• Exhibit high-level technical skills, understand expense systems and cost control initiatives.
• Maintain a polished, calm, and composed manner, able to work under pressure.
• Adapt to change with flexibility, act as a team player, being solution-oriented with the potential to serve as a role model.
• Deliver high-quality results with attention to detail; show proactivity and ownership by demonstrating initiative and responsibility within the role.
• Grasp the investment bank culture and political landscape quickly.
• Stay current with CIB/Firmwide policies and ensure compliance.