Accounts Payable Specialist- Analyst jobs at Jpmorgan in Japan, Tokyo

Job Summary:

As a Compliance Officer in South Africa, reporting to and supporting the Head of Compliance for Sub-Sahara Africa, Israel, and Mauritius based in Johannesburg, you will play a key advisory role in JSE and Over the Counter regulations. We are seeking a seasoned Global Markets Compliance professional who meets the qualification requirements across the JSE markets. You will collaborate effectively with Line of Business (LOB) and global/regional Compliance teams, including Internal Audit, Operational Risk, and other Control functions. This role demands strong expertise in compliance risk management and knowledge of the applicable regulatory landscape in the financial services sector.
In this role, you will provide comprehensive compliance coverage across multiple areas, serving as the team's subject matter expert for specific regulations including the Banks Act, Conduct Standard for Banks, Financial Markets Act, Financial Markets Regulations, Financial Sector Regulations Act, FAIS Act, Financial Intelligence Centre Act, and JSE Rules and Directives. You will execute core practices such as governance and oversight, regulatory management, regulator engagements, policies and procedures, training and awareness, monitoring and testing, issue management, risk assessment and reporting, and risk control self-assessment. Experience in dealing with key regulators is essential, and participation in industry associations and forums will be advantageous.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive compliance coverage across multiple areas, serving as the team's subject matter expert for specific regulations.
• Execute core practices: governance and oversight, regulatory management, regulator engagements, policies and procedures, training and awareness, monitoring and testing, issue management, risk assessment and reporting, and risk control self-assessment.
• Develop compliance risk management plans (CRMPs), maintain regulatory inventories, and process JSE, ODP, and FSP registrations for regulated roles.
• Conduct analysis to identify major issues and actionable opportunities, design solutions, and quantify financial impact.
• Develop presentations for management, stakeholders, and regulators to communicate issues, recommendations, and initiative status.
• Identify potential concerns and control issues, determine root causes, and ensure stakeholders implement corrective actions.
• Conduct ongoing compliance monitoring activities, participate in special projects, and conduct investigations on suspicious activity and/or market abuse.
• Challenge the status quo by providing critical thinking and decision-making capabilities to identify problems and propose solutions.
• Prepare advice and guidance on regulatory and firm policy issues, and alert management on any risk.
• Participate in industry forums, report regulatory developments to relevant committees, and support strong regulatory relationships.
• Provide real-time regulatory advice and decisions in high-pressure situations.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Derivatives product module (SAIFM)
• Bond product module (SAIFM)
• Introduction to Financial Markets (SAIFM)
• Regulations & Ethics of South African Markets (SAIFM)
• Strong understanding of Markets Products
• Demonstrated ability to partner with stakeholders on projects.
• Strong written and oral executive-level communication skills.
• Experience with risk and controls.
• Detail-oriented with high attention to detail and quality in work products.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Bachelor's degree with professional certification, with a minimum of 5 years of compliance or related risk management experience.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in dealing with key regulators.
• Participation in industry associations and forums.
• Strong expertise in compliance risk management.
• Knowledge of the applicable regulatory landscape in the financial services sector.

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 part of the Operations Analyst Program, you will work in a collaborative environment that teaches you how the Operations function helps deliver core services to the firm and its clients. The goal is to assist you in building a long-term career in our Operations division and help with its continued growth. You will make an impact in the Operations area supporting various businesses including by not limited to Markets and Securities Services.

Job responsibilities:

• Assist with the end-to-end management of the client onboarding experience
• Be responsible for processing and investigating client transactions for a variety of products such as equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities
• Provide data analytics and reporting support for operational functions
• Analyze reference data to help support trading
• Optimize processes in collaboration with Technology teams

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s Degree holder
• Less than 4 years of work experience in any field
• Team player able to work in a collaborative, pressurized and changing environment
• Detailed- orientated with strong critical thinking, attention to detail and analytical skills and ability to challenge the status quo
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally with Japanese and English language
• Individual who can work effectively to identify problems and collaborate with teams to develop and drive solutions
• An understanding of Japanese culture and client servicing expectations
• Innovative mindset willing to use Intelligent Automation tools such as Alteryx, Ui-path, and Tableau to help drive change in our business

Job summary:

At Compliance Conduct and Operational Risk division, as a trade surveillance personnel you would be responsible for identifying potential instances of market abuse, notably insider trading and market manipulation using well known surveillance systems, conducting surveillance of activities in Firm and Employee accounts to comply with the information barrier and restricted list policies. The trade surveillance team would be responsible for looking into the risks across markets using the established surveillance program to safeguard the firm against any reputational and/or financial risk while complying with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

Job Responsibilities:

• Reviewing Trade surveillance alerts and conducting analysis of trading and market activity for asset class and programs such as Equities, Information barriers, Fixed income, Futures/ Options and Asset management

• Properly documenting the review and disposition of the exceptions as well as escalating matters appropriately

• Working with business and compliance stakeholders to identify potential market misconduct and technical rule violations and disposition, accordingly, include through interaction with regional Surveillance teams

• Conducting alert-based reviews for potential violations of laws, rules, and regulations.

• Additional duties as assigned & Identifying areas for process improvement and contribute towards the same
• Identify key issues, risks, trends, observations and have them highlighted to management/key stakeholders

• Work along with peers, handle multiple reports, engage in result-oriented tasks in a fast-paced environment. Identifying areas for process improvement and contribute towards the same

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Qualified graduate with minimum of 2 years of trade surveillance / product experience with exchange traded products (including equities, futures and Fixed income) and/or information barriers / Asset management
• An understanding of markets and potential market manipulative behavior and a demonstrated ability to conduct reviews relating to regional rules and regulations
• Experience with reviewing trading activity for Compliance and familiarity with securities laws and regulations for identifying potential trading violations

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience with SMARTS, Actimize or similar Trade surveillance systems is a plus
• Experience with navigation and sourcing of information in Bloomberg/public sources
• Working Knowledge of securities markets preferred

In this critical role, you will have strong function skills in the major areas of investment banking and contribute to the firm's capital raising capabilities while helping build J.P. Morgan's franchise and reputation in the marketplace.

As anAssociate / Analystwithin the Equity Capital Markets (ECM) group in the Investment Bank, you will be a key player in the execution of the firm's business. You will work with expert professionals at the heart of a leading global investment bank and 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. Joining this team means you’ll become part of our inclusive teams and culture, unified by the firm’s mission and commitment to success.

Job responsibilities

• Execute public capital raising transactions for Japanese issuer clients, including IPOs , follow-on and converts offerings
• Assist senior bankers in preparation for client engagement and deal origination such as pitches and RFPs
• Provide project management support to senior team members
• Liaise with other internal teams including industry coverage, sales and trading, syndicate, equity research and legal
• Prepare thought pieces related to the equity capital markets and diversified industries sector
• Conduct analysis for issuer clients, including precedent transactions and shareholder targeting
• Draft presentation materials and internal committee memorandums in advance of launching transactions

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong accounting, finance, quantitative and business writing skills
• A well-rounded academic background from a top tier educational institution
• Understanding of the transaction cycle and the steps in the process and is execution oriented
• Impeccable communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with senior professionals, clients and key stakeholders in other line of business
• Ability to work well in a fast paced, team environment
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work independently

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Prior work experience in an investment banking front office, or related, role preferred

As an Analyst/Associate in the Payments Corporate Sales team, you will be responsible for providing support to the Payments Sales Managers covering various industries to manage client relationships and drive sales. This encompasses client and market intelligence for new and existing clients along with supporting the sales team's various requirements, such as managing pipeline report, deal execution, pricing and fee billing support, preparing client pitching materials and other related matters. This position also provides an excellent opportunity to obtain front office experience interacting with clients, corporate bankers, product, client service, implementation and other functions. You will be part of a wider team of Payments Corporate Sales team in Asia-Pacific and will interact, learn and develop with them.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist the Sales team with sales pitch materials, RFP/RFI submissions, and preparation of proposals for internal approvals. Build and understand pricing and profitability models.
• Conduct research on existing client portfolios and prospective clients. Prepare client research, industry analysis, and provide fundamental research on market sizing by region.
• Review and analyze transactional data to identify key trends, risks, and pricing/billing inefficiencies.
• Support the end-to-end sales cycle, including pricing, fee billing setup, and deal execution. Understand client account structures, cash flow, product usage, and regional/global setups.
• Prepare client account plans, briefing memos, and portfolio management reports. Take ownership of business and control processes relevant to client administration and reporting needs.
• Work closely with a global network of corporate bankers and Payments colleagues to support business activities.
• Stay informed about regional developments, including regulatory changes, political background, and market trends.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills,

• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex problems into concise conclusions.
• Fluency in Japanese is required to support Japanese-speaking clients.
• Goal-driven and results-oriented, with the ability to foster innovation and solve problems creatively.
• Excellent time management, organizational, and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and ensure follow-up coordination.
• Ability to mobilize internal networks and resources effectively.
• Aspiration to develop sales and technical skills for a future Sales/Business Development role.
• Results oriented. Able to work under pressure within tight timeframes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.