JPMorgan Pricing Direct Derivatives Valuation Analyst 

United States, New York 

201081168

Job Responsibilities:

• Generate daily valuations of derivative securities for multiple market closes, entailing start-to-end responsibilities. This includes market data collection and analysis, price generation, quality control, and client interaction.
• Continuously improve product and service quality through daily market surveillance, communication with market makers, perform data and financial analysis, enhancing process controls, and ensuring data quality.
• Collaborate with trading desks, market participants, and research teams to enhance market knowledge and understanding of market pricing.
• Address all client concerns daily with an emphasis on providing first-class service and quality, whether via emails, calls, or in-person meetings.
• Perform in-depth analysis on an individual security or portfolio of securities and explain findings to clients.
• Develop and maintain financial modeling tools by utilizing advanced quantitative techniques such as Python.
• Explore new areas of product growth with a focus on autonomously developing innovative ideas and solutions.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Finance, Economics or similar.
• Firm understanding of the principles of finance, business operations, derivative products, option pricing and statistical modeling.
• Strong software development skills in Python and Excel VBA with high aptitude for learning new technologies.
• Ability to collect and analyze large amounts of market information, extract its essence, and incorporate the findings into valuation models and processes.
• Clear, logical thinker with strong quantitative abilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment of real-time market pressures, remaining focused on client needs.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with clients, portfolio managers, traders, research, and sales.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Detailed oriented, creative problem solver with ability to learn quickly, multi-task, and self-manage priorities.
• Ability to build effective working relationships and interact comfortably with a wide spectrum of traders, research analysts, clients, and technologists.