JPMorgan Transition Risk Analytics Lead – Executive Director 

United Kingdom, England, London 

18975119

As a Transition Risk Analytics Lead - Executive Director within the Climate, Nature, and Social Risk Management team, you will take on a strategic leadership role in risk management, ensuring the organization's resilience and growth. Your deep understanding of climate and nature risk will be crucial in enhancing our comprehensive risk management framework within a challenging timeline. Leveraging your industry and technical expertise, you will conduct thorough research, quantitative analysis, and develop scalable solutions to support firmwide and legal entity approaches. Collaborating with various internal counterparts across the firm, you will gain insights into the potential implications of climate change on a large and global financial institution like JPMorgan Chase. Your role will also involve leading a team, promoting a culture of innovation, and upholding a robust compliance framework.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the Climate, Nature and Social Risk transition risk analytical frameworks, with focus on developing methodologies and conducting research on sectoral and corporate climate and nature mitigation transition strategies
• Lead research on a range of climate and nature related topics that affect the firm’s activities with a good understanding of risk impact on client sectors and products
• Be an expert in climate and nature datasets used to manage these risks, forming conclusions on key trends and patterns and working with data providers to maximise our knowledge
• Build, maintain, own and analyse outputs from climate risk assessment models and user tools
• Lead the drafting and maintenance of documentation for climate and nature risk assessment models and user tools
• Address regulatory expectations and requirements for managing climate- and nature-related risk
• Lead the development of internal climate-nature scenarios used for risk management purposes and collaborate with internal subject matter experts

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong university degree (2:1 equivalent or above), in a climate-related or sustainability field, or in economics
• Work experience related to climate stress testing, (energy) transition modelling, and/or with sectoral decarbonisation pathways
• Quantitative academic foundations
• Strong sense of ownership and demonstrated ability to lead a team in producing deliverables with high standards and within tight deadlines
• Ability to convey information clearly, accurately and succinctly (both written and verbally) to inform and influence senior management
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Excellent analytical skills: proficient in statistical modelling (Python) and comfortable working with large datasets
• Ability to draft high-impact presentations and documentation, strong attention to detail