JPMorgan Short Duration Securities - Associate 

United States, New York, New York 

512292335

As an Associate for the Short Duration Trading Desk (Securities), you will be tasked with a variety of responsibilities. You will help to price client trades, hedge risks, work on desk projects, and manage many operational duties for the desk. Together, we will set expectations on pricing, risk, hedging, and the direction of the book. You will be responsible for managing these trading responsibilities, in addition to handling desk projects and all the daily operational requirements for our group. Your operational responsibilities will include booking and confirming trades, communicating with sales and sales assistants, reporting desk P&L, working on spreadsheets, coding projects, and other related work for desk intelligence. This is a unique opportunity for you to enter a strong franchise in a junior trading role, where you can earn more responsibility by proving your core trading competencies, strong communication skills, ability to take direction easily as well as critical feedback, and ability to produce revenue and service our client base.

Job Responsibilities:

• Pricing small to medium sized client trades
• Hedging risks to trades and the book, including duration, curve, swap spreads, futures, and on-off the run risk
• Developing desk infrastructure for risk and P&L
• Working with the desk to develop analytics for relative value trading in both cash and derivatives
• Managing all operational duties for reporting P&L, risk, and anything ad hoc asked by the desk including projects or specific data gathering.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 1+ years of trading experience is required. No exceptions.
• Undergraduate degree
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Interest in markets and macro products
• Ability to take direction and constructive feedback, while meeting time sensitive deadlines on a daily basis

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Undergraduate technical/STEM degree
• Basic understanding of interest rate derivatives and cash products
• Familiarity with Excel