Credit Derivatives Middle Office jobs at Jpmorgan

You will be at the forefront of transforming credit

As a Vice President of Pricing Strategy in Auto Lending team, you will be supporting the newly created Credit Decision Unit (CDU). You will provide pricing analysis and strategic recommendations to support the business' goals around volume and profitability and serve as pricing support that aligns to the CDU related objectives. You will be involved in building pricing tests, finding opportunities to enhance pricing, and addressing quantitatively challenging questions while also supporting all CDU related initiatives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop short-term and long-term pricing strategies based on the latest competitive landscape and business goals.
• Provide financial analysis for key pricing initiatives and serve as pricing support for CDU initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful execution of business strategies.
• Leverage existing data from random price testing, pricing experiments and competitive data/insights to develop a robust framework for portfolio pricing optimization.
• Provide ad-hoc datasets, reporting, and presentations to senior management.
• Support the product team to help enhance/implement needed levers to enhance pricing capabilities.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• 6+ years of experience in finance, data & analytics, or product strategy
• Bachelor's Degree in relevant fields.
• Experience managing a team
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and communication skills.
• Detail-oriented with well-developed problem-solving skills and a clear understanding of the drivers of profitability.
• Strong teamwork and collaborative skills.
• Ability to make concise presentations with sound business conclusions.
• Proficiency in basic analytical tools such as SQL/Alteryx/SAS or any related language,
• Microsoft experience in Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Master’s/MBA.
• Experience in the Auto Finance Industry and specifically Pricing.
• Familiarity with competitive analysis and market insights.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

As a Credit Risk Executive in Commercial and Specialized Industries, you will lead Credit Risk for the Southeast region as well as Aerospace, Defense and Government (ADG) nationwide. You will cover the states of Virginia, Washington DC, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, and Arkansas. You will manage a high-performing team of 30 risk professionals while overseeing a portfolio of 400 clients, aggregating to $8B of exposure across a diversified set of industries, including Consumer and Retail, Industrials, Business Services, and Government Contractors.

You will manage a portfolio that is complex, very active, and clients are generally rated non-investment grade and lending exposure in the portfolio covers the full spectrum of unsecured cash flow, secured cash flow, and asset-reliant secured structures.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage multiple levels of credit risk professionals across geographies, markets, and lines of business
• Lead and facilitate a robust and inclusive talent strategy and development plan across the organization
• Partner with executive risk management across the organization to drive, influence, and serve as an effective challenge to the business on client selection strategy and growth objectives for the business
• Review credit approval materials, ensure all credit risk policies are followed, and utilize approval authority and/or, where necessary, present and recommend credits for approval by senior management
• Serve as a key resource to the team on credit analysis, negotiation and execution of financing terms and conditions
• Lead processes to ensure risk ratings are accurate across the portfolio and reflect a current forward-looking view of the portfolio’s health
• Provide early identification and proactive management of deteriorating credits and other problem situations and drive the team to successful outcomes
• Lead periodic portfolio reviews, watch list and credit surveillance meetings
• Achieve satisfactory audit and credit review results
• Maintain a control environment consistent with internal policies

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Minimum of 15+ years relevant Commercial or Investment Bank Risk experience
• Superior credit, leveraged finance, negotiation, loan documentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and verbal and written communication, collaboration, partnership, and time management skills
• Independently productive; able to operate at a highly effective level with minimal day-to-day managerial direction
• Prior management experience leading teams and influencing stakeholders
• Completion of a major corporate or investment bank credit training program, or equivalent experience, and a thorough understanding of bank credit policies and procedures
• BA/BS degree is required

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Strong experience with leveraged private equity owned businesses

The execution middle office provides transaction analysis, P&L and risk, and project support to the T/CIO desks which execute transactions and manage resulting positions. The associate will lead analysis for one of the CIO"s main products in the effort to ensure the business’s financials are well supported and properly controlled. One of your primary purposes will be to work with the Front Office to obtain their P&L and Risk signoff for each day. Separately, Product Controllers help insure proper reporting of Interest Rate Risk, Market Risk, and other regulatory reporting requirements.

As a Product Controller, Associate on the Executive Middle Office team, you will possess a financial mindset, an appreciation for complex system flows and the controls necessary to ensure your accuracy, a thorough understanding of financial instruments and relevant accounting principles, an aptitude for root/cause analysis, and an overriding eagerness to exhibit leadership and drive.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide Production and substantiation of P&L and Risk to CIO/Treasury FO/Management
• Provide supervisory oversight of daily P&L/Risk process performed by junior team members
• Review daily system to system reconciliations and feeds relating to CIO & Treasury
• Monitor Market Risk related controls- includes updating/monitoring of risk limits, report clean P&L for VaR back testing
• Contribute to New Business initiatives including active participation to on-board a new product & designing MO work flow, provide analysis/advice around booking strategies & operational procedures
• Provide support for any ad hoc requests and queries from various stakeholders
• Review current processes, identify opportunities for improving efficiency & controls and delivering tactical/strategic solutions
• Work in close partnership with Market Risk, Business Management, Trade support, Financial controllers, VCG, Technology to ensure adequate controls on overall P&L & Risk numbers
• participate in Strategic Re-engineering and global projects involving front/back end systems and closely partner across 3 regions. Deliver substantive and meaningful contribution to group’s work product.
• Understand & contribute to various control frameworks, i.e. Control Self Assessment (CSA), Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) & Business Control Committees (BCC’s)

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• Degree Holder major in Finance, Accounting or other management discipline
• 3+ years in Middle Office, Market Risk, Valuation, Finance or Product Control
• Works independently and takes decisions, escalates when appropriate
• Good communication skills, robust and credible partner
• Detail oriented, ability to deep dive on processes and improve controls/efficiencies
• Good product knowledge with hands on experience in Fixed income & Treasury products
• Good understanding of transaction cycle, infrastructure & associated operational and financial processes and controls
• Strong relationship-building and networking skills
• Ability to deal with high level of adhoc requests and deliver under pressure
• Excel proficiency

Job responsibilities

• Identify key risks and trends impacting the wholesale credit portfolio, which includes the Commercial & Investment Bank, Asset & Wealth Management and risk-rated businesses within Consumer and Community Banking
• Support monthly close of Wholesale credit data & deliver periodic reports, metrics and executive level content to senior management
• Develop subject matter expertise in key portfolio’s such as Wholesale Criticized, Non-Performing, Past Due, Net Charge offs and Pending Commitments
• Assist with monthly and quarterly credit risk update for the RM&C leadership team and Firm’s CFO to prepare for quarterly Earnings Presentations
• Produce data metrics for key external disclosures, including Earnings Press Release and support variance commentary requests from stakeholders
• Participate in ad-hoc special projects as needed in the RM&C space
• Utilize intelligent solutions (e.g. Alteryx, Tableau) to support analytics
• Engage with LOB partners and key stakeholders across Risk and Finance on various internal and external reporting agenda’s, including data quality initiatives

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree
• Comfortable working with large datasets and producing executive level content
• Excellent presentation skills, including the ability to create executive level content
• Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau, Alteryx), LLM suites and intermediary knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Enjoys collaboration and building strong partnerships; excellent interpersonal skills needed for working within a team environment as well as communicating across departments
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment and attention to detail with focus on quality of deliverables
• Curious, Creative, problem solver and analytical, with a control mindset

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in risk and/or financial reporting and analysis is a plus

The Basel Measurement & Analytics (BM&A) group within CIO is responsible for calculating, analyzing, and reporting firm-wide RWA for market risk, wholesale credit risk and retail risk stripes. The RWA measures feed into corporate functions to quantify and determine regulatory capital requirements and support external regulatory filings and disclosures. BM&A is responsible for the business requirements to develop and manage the Basel infrastructure and ensure calculations are in compliance with internal capital policy and guidance. In addition, BM&A supports ancillary activities to perform impact analysis on methodology changes driven by new rule proposals, support RWA component of CCAR, Resolution & Recovery, Pillar 3 Disclosure, and Quantitative Impact Studies (QIS) for regulatory agencies.

Job responsibilities:

• Monthly production cycle for RWA calculation and reporting, including Basel 3 Advanced, Basel 3 Standardized, CCP, and Supplementary Leverage Ratio
• Provide analysis in support of RWA trends and forecast-to-actual variances
• Support external regulatory filing deliverables including the FR Y-9C, FFIEC 101 and Pillar 3.
• To perform ad-hoc quantitative impact analysis on the firm’s RWA under Basel rules and regulations based on input parameters or infrastructure changes – specific to Derivatives risk stripe.
• Perform quarterly stress testing to support CCAR, ICAAP and Risk Appetite deliverables.
• To evaluate and manage controls on key processes and functions.
• To prepare objective analysis that provides perspective to senior management to support decision-making on key issues related to regulatory capital.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree and 1-4 years’ experience in Finance, Risk Management, or related field.
• Experience with Basel Capital Rules is preferred.
• Experience and technical understanding of derivative products.
• Exceptional excel/database/desktop skills.
• Ability to work in pressure-oriented environment and able to handle multiple tasks.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills with a track record of execution against deliverables; including the ability to take ownership and work independently while contributing to the broader team.
• Results oriented individual who can execute tasks within aggressive time frame.
• Superior attention to detail and process-orientation.
• Ability to synthesize and analyze large amounts of data to ascertain key facts and trends.
• Ability to develop strong client relationships and gain consensus on key decisions.

The newly formed Transformation Office functions as a strategic accelerator driving strategy and execution of AI initiatives, with a focus of leading and accelerating the implementation of the AI in Operations program and providing standardization and transparency into Operations AI use cases across the firm. Given the importance and scale of this transformation, as part of this role you will have the unique opportunity to work closely with our most senior leaders across the business.

As an AI in Operations Transformation Office Program Manager, you will lead complex projects and programs to drive the AI in Operations program towards its strategic goals and impact AI and Operations teams across the firm. Your experience in program management of leading program offices and broad understanding of the AI space will enable you to develop strategic plans and ensure the program meets internal and external requirements. Adept navigation through ambiguity, adaptation to change, and leveraging of advanced analytical reasoning and influencing skills are essential for driving mutually beneficial outcomes. Your exceptional communication abilities will foster productive relationships with stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and clients. Through your technical fluency and thought leadership, you will play a pivotal role in achieving business goals, shaping the firm's technology landscape, and moving work forward that has firmwide impact.

Job Responsibilities:

• Apply structured problem-solving and design thinking to address top strategic priorities
• Develop innovative solutions to transform the business model and product offering
• Develop an understanding of innovation in financial services and particularly emerging technologies (e.g., AI/LLM, ML, RPA) to help reimagine the future of D&PS
• Prepare for and listen well in meetings; interject and participate in stakeholder interviews to gather baseline information and work with business partners to clarify / execute any follow-up requests
• Support multiple project work streams
• Establish strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and colleagues
• Manage deadlines and timeframes, proactively escalating issues, as needed

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 5 years of experience with a premier strategy consulting firm or an internal strategy consulting / corporate strategy team, leading technology company or AI-related start-up
• Demonstrated experience with consulting toolkit / broad range of analytical tools and problem-solving approaches
• Strong client management and executive-level communication skills
• Track record of demonstrating a high level of personal initiative, setting and achieving challenging goals, and demonstrating entrepreneurial leadership
• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Math, Engineering, or a related field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in financial services industry or AI-related field
• MBA or an advanced business degree from a top-tier program