JPMorgan Markets Portfolio Management - Analyst 

United Kingdom, England, London 

355151246

Job summary

As an Analyst within the Markets Portfolio Management Team, you will play a crucial role in Financial Resource Management across Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC).

In the current regulatory environment, your role will be critical in understanding, quantifying, and managing risks associated with the complex regulatory landscape, including Basel III and Global Systemically Important Banks regulations.

You will also be tasked with creating structured solutions to enhance capital efficiency. Your key business partners will include Trading, Corporate and Investment Bank Treasury, Market Risk Basel Group, Corporate and Investment Bank Risk, and the Regulatory Capital Management Office.

Your responsibilities will include working with the Markets Portfolio Management team and relevant desk heads to optimize their financial resource footprint. This will involve assessing capital, balance-sheet and funding/liquidity needs, understanding regulatory constraints and firm/Corporate and Investment Bank strategy, and identifying challenges and opportunities for the business. You will also interface with trading and financing organizations across FICC, as well as a broad range of Markets, Corporate and Investment Bank, and Corporate support functions, as we develop strategies for optimal resource deployment and enhancing profitability for the Lines of Business under our remit.

You should have a background in finance and knowledge of securities (cash and financing) and derivatives products spanning all the major asset classes. Ideally, you will also have an understanding of one or more of the following: funding, balance sheet dynamics, liquidity and capita.

Job responsibilities:

• Become a subject matter expert on capital, balance sheet, funding and liquidity and understand how these financial constraints creates challenges/opportunities for the Fixed Income business franchises; Understand the effects of internal policy and external regulatory changes to help manage balance sheet, funding, liquidity and capital related costs/charges within the Markets business
• Assist in establishing integrated capital and funding strategy across Markets Trading Business
• Develop structuring solutions to enhance returns, mitigate capital burden and reduce funding costs
• Partner with MPM Data Analytics and Technology to create new Big Data solutions for the business
• Provide analytical support for key projects relating to the capital and funding agenda across business lines
• Monitoring of Balance Sheet usage and limit management
• Support key regulatory requirements and projects such as Basel 3 Endgame, CCAR and FRTB
• Establish relationships across CIB Treasury, CIB Risk, Market Risk Basel Group, Regulatory Capital Management Office, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to effectively manage business risks

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Understanding of accounting, balance sheet, funding and regulatory principles and their application
• Self-directed, highly motivated and able to work independently on multiple conflicting priorities and under pressure; Proactive and entrepreneurial
• Detail-oriented approach to problem-solving; able to break down and structure complex problems, then develop data-driven solutions to guide management decision-making
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) with ability to interact comfortably with a variety of businesses, management and control functions
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Strong work ethic, eagerness to learn and take initiative
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative work environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience and/or awareness of market, credit and liquidity risk aspects of financial products in both securities & derivatives instruments is an advantage