JPMorgan Risk Management - Market Coverage Lead Vice President 

United States, New York, New York 

568293669

As a Risk Management - Market Risk Coverage Lead - Vice President, you will participate in all risk related matters (including monitoring and forecasting). Working in Risk Management, you will have the opportunity to work alongside professionals across all levels and regions, gaining exposure to senior portfolio managers in an area of the Firm that covers a wide range of asset classes and financial products. This role provides an ideal opportunity to gain a broad perspective of Firmwide risk management decisions and offers significant visibility to senior management.

The Chief Investment Office (CIO) manages the firm's structural interest rate and foreign exchange risks, and conservatively invests the firm’s excess deposits. Interest rate risk is managed primarily via investment securities and interest rate derivatives as tools to manage the firm's asset liability mismatch. The firm’s non-USD foreign exchange risk is managed through specifically defined hedging mandates. The Chief Investment Office (CIO) also manages the JP Morgan Retirement Plan and hedges the firm's Mortgage Servicing Rights.

Job responsibilities

• Report and monitor market risk positions - with the aim to identify material risk exposures and concentrations. Conduct ad hoc risk analysis, develop improvements of daily risk reports, and VaR and Stress analysis tools
• Monitor risk exposures, understand the factors that drive the risk and P&L on the books, follow market movement/activities affecting positions, highlight and discuss risk changes and top risks
• Track of market developments/moves vis-à-vis business risks
• Improve risk transparency, methodologies and reports by conducting deep-dives on various basis risks, curve risks, specific structure risks etc
• Assist the execution of key processes around risk sensitivities, reporting, Profit and Loss Analysis, and discuss the analysis and results with traders, providing support for conclusions and escalating as necessary
• Perform and validate quarterly stress testing and participate in analysis of business results as well as contribution to aggregate stress results
• Test and provide feedback to the Technology team around ongoing technology projects to automate processes
• Work on projects to develop innovate, new risk measures and implement best practice methodologies
• Partner with different risk teams, quantitative research, and the model governance group on issues regarding risk
• Develop strong relationships with key front office personnel, finance, audit and risk partners throughout the firm
• Represent Market risk in various related initiatives and ensure that the projects are delivered in a timely manner

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, as well as a high level of self-initiative required, including an ability to balance and execute multiple projects at once and deliver results under tight time constraints
• Understanding of the governance and controls surrounding risk monitoring including, VaR, stress testing, various return measures and experience with stress construction
• Understanding of fixed income/securitization markets and FX (Bonds, swaps, MBS, FX Fwds, FX swaps etc)
• Understanding or risk sensitivities related to these financial products
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong technical skills in Excel/Access/VBA/Bloomberg
• Strong coding skills in Python or SQL