JPMorgan Program Trading Risk – Associate 

United States, New York, New York 

242684943

Job Summary

As a Program Trading Risk Associate within the Equities business at J.P. Morgan, you will be part of a dynamic and competitive team.

Job Responsibilities

• Work as a trader on the US Program Trading (PT) Risk team
• Handle trading of large portfolios of stocks
• Engage with the PT sales team on facilitating client risk trades and ETF creations and redemptions
• Predict Index rebalancing events and test related trading strategies
• Utilize portfolio construction models to hedge and reduce the risk associated with portfolio management strategies
• Have significant interaction with trading and sales teams across the Equities division including High Touch, ETF and Central Risk Book teams

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelors degree in Quantitative area of study
• Two or more years of sell-side or buy-side trading experience, ideally in Index Rebalancing or Program Trading
• Experience in managing portfolio management strategies with positions on large portfolios; fluency in risk factors
• Exposure to statistical modelling, time series or other data modelling experience
• Very self-motivated, willing to be part of a dynamic and competitive team
• FINRA licenses including Series 7, 63 and 57

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Coding experience in Python is strongly desired
• Knowledge of kdb/q is a plus