Equity Derivatives Middle Office Marketing Support - 1-year Contract jobs at Jpmorgan in Japan, Tokyo

As an Associate in Sales & Marketing, you will be responsible for maintain and development of key corporate client relationships on Equity solution business. You will need the abilities to navigate these products effectively along with idea generation and market insight. In addition, you will bring a collaborative approach working with our business partners in both trading, research and banking to provide comprehensive client coverage across the platform.

Job responsibilities

• Marketing structured products in Equity
• Building relationship with Japan corporate clients
• Working cooperatively with the relevant business partners

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Clear, logical thinker with strong qualitative skill set including effective communication and presentation
• Strong team player that partners well with principals of the platform including Research and Trading
• Skills in business analysis of corporate clients
• Strong understanding of fundamental product knowledge and market structure
• Fluent in Japanese and English
• Strong proficiency in Bloomberg, Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skill

• Broad range of Market products knowledge – Equity
• Skills in business analysis of corporate clients
• Knowledge about Capital market
• Developed and established relationships with key corporate clients

Your days will be filled analyzing data and building models to assist clients from across the sector in best research firm.

As an Analyst/Associate in Equity Research team, you will be working in a dynamic and research focus environment. You will partner closely with various external clients, internal parties and provide up to date, industry leading research. Your days will be filled analyzing data and building models to assist clients from across the sector. You’ll be able to recognize critical data points, analytical concepts and come to a logical conclusion within the modelling/valuation process.

Job responsibilities

• Support a senior analyst who covers listed companies;
• Contribute to thematic sector reports on or cross-sector collaborations with other teams;
• Handle day to day client requests and needs, with a focus on clients who have interest in Stock markets
• Communicate your team's ideas with a persuasive curve to internal and external parties; tailor your communications by client need/type;
• Organize fact-finding trips and channel-check meetings in clients’ bespoke requests or for investors tours;
• Contribute to furthering your franchise as a business by suggesting new approaches or ideas.
• Understand firm's approach and policies for managing risks in relevant business and applicable legal and regulatory rules, and follows policies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrates creativity in solving problems. Always looks for new ways of doing things
• Ability to thrive on the challenge of competitive pressures and remain focused on client needs
• Ability to interact comfortably with business clients and management
• English and Japanese in fluency is essential
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Ability to complete a robust model (base and sensitivity cases) from start to finish with little guidance; mastery of the levers in the model
• Ability to discuss in detail you understanding of the fundamentals/perspectives (competitive landscape, risks) of your industry
• Ability to take disparate pieces of information, synthesize them and articulate a compelling thesis or argument in a clear and cogent manner

As a Fixed Income Middle Office Analyst/Associate within the Japan Fixed Income Sales & Trading franchise, you will be responsible for providing post-trade operations support across a broad spectrum of asset classes in the Securities business. Your role will involve coordinating with various internal and external stakeholders to facilitate business, efficiency, controls, and regulatory initiatives. This will require active engagement and partnership at local, regional, and global levels to promote our firm's strategic deliveries.

Job Responsibilities

• Have full accountability of End-to-End query resolution for Fixed Income trades post-execution, from risk management to settlements and reporting. The role also includes reference data setup related to Fixed Income trades.
• Communicate daily with Front Office and Clients to facilitate the trades for successful execution and settlements by collaborating with offshore operation and technology teams.
• Manage new business initiatives from Front Office/Clients to support the business expansion opportunities.
• Involve in projects to innovate the current system structure to achieve higher efficiency and control.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Have strong communication skills to manage stakeholder’s expectations and flexible mindset to change and work in a team
• Be able to multi-task and work in a time-pressurized, fast paced and dynamic environment with tight deadlines on a regular basis.
• Be able to be flexible, follow tight deadlines, organize and prioritize work
• Have strong analytical and problem solving skills including taking the initiative to drive change and enhance controls
• Proficient in Japanese and English languages to handle both internal and external stakeholders.
• Have client communication experience in Japanese.
• Have strong digitalized skill (Alteryx, Tableau) or computer Skills such as Microsoft Applications - at least motivated to learn

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Be self-starter
• Be able to learn quickly

As a Japan Client Tax Support Analyst within Global Tax Operations, you will be part of the team to maximize client's investments by either facilitating effective tax relief at source on client investment income or retrospectively reclaiming taxes from global tax authorities.

Job responsibilities

• Deliver the Tax Service to support Securities Services Custody business
• Act as the centralized point of contact for all complex and technical tax issues to support our client’s tax servicing needs and manage client relationships proactively
• Have a good understanding of the client’s business, structure and tax strategy to ensure all entitled tax benefits are received in order to maximise tax efficiency
• Contribute to the tax component of service reviews and other meetings with the client and provide input on any tax-related product or other change requests
• Support and guidance on outstanding/expiring tax documentation, relief at source, retrospective reclaims, capital gains tax, financial transaction tax, tax regulatory reporting
• Ensure close collaboration with the Sub Custodian network and the internal Network Management Group
• Manage client tax documentation, including, as needed, onward distribution to internal teams to ensure the efficient set-up within internal systems
• Review operational tax processes to identify areas for enhancement continually, analyse root-cause of recurring issues through regular review of metrics, and assist in developing programmes for service enhancements arising from these figures
• Identify and escalate tax risks and participate in resolution
• Assist in client tax account reviews and ad-hoc projects across the wider Tax Operations team
• Attend relevant forums to represent client tax related matter

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Working experience in financial sectors, accounting firms or other professional institutions
• Ability to discuss experience of client service and relationship management communicating complex issues with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate your in-depth operational tax experience within financial services, specifically global custody or investment banking
• Ability to give examples of your successful internal and external communication and problem-solving experience
• Ability to discuss your process improvement experience, where you clearly articulate ideas, concepts and procedural changes to clients
• Proven experience within an arena where accuracy is critical within strict deadlines
• Ability to to demonstrate high emotional intelligence, with sound networking and influencing skills to help the Client Tax Operations Utility be effective
• Proficiency in verbal and written communication in both Japanese and English

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Strong data management skills
• understanding of custodian business or have tax background

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage enquiries received for Corporate and FI customers with the highest service levels and optimal turnaround time.
• Adhere to department policies and procedures, driving the same values within your team.
• Engage professionally in person, emails, and on the phone to assist with every client need or issue.
• Work independently and in a team environment to maximize productivity efficiently.
• Investigate root causes of process inefficiencies and propose opportunities for process improvement.
• Align your and your team’s performance with broader organizational goals.
• Participate in team projects and governance activities.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Advanced/Specialist/Management/Graduate Diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in customer service, operations, treasury, sales, or portfolio management.
• Excellent organizational skills; ability to manage, prioritize, work under pressure, and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills; able to effectively communicate clearly and concisely in English and Japanese.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills; ability to establish credibility and strong partnerships with senior business and control partners.
• Willingness to learn different functions and processes and contribute to the team as a responsible and proactive member.
• Proactive in upskilling self with latest innovation and technology used in/for Banking and Client Service.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Work experience in banking or the financial service industry.
• Ability to use data to create metrics and reporting.
• Willingness to learn and use innovation to lead or be part of impactful projects.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).