JPMorgan Risk Management- Margin Collateral Oversight- Analyst 

United States, American Samoa 

621346701

Job Responsibilities

• Support the EMEA Collateral Risk team in managing all aspects of collateral risk from regulatory margin, in-house margin, collateral pool assessments (liquidity, concentration, wrong-way risk, etc.), collateral/margin disputes.
• Monitor exposures, identify concentrated or concerning risk positions, and escalate appropriately. Identify notable trends and material changes in the collateral pool
• Understand margining methodologies, conduct benchmarking analysis, and engage senior traders to understand trade and market dynamics.
• Monitor markets and geopolitical developments and assess impact to the collateral pool
• Support Sales and Trading on the negotiation of CSAs, mitigating collateral risk by identifying and managing collateral eligibility criteria and non-standard collateral.
• Provide on-going support to Credit Officers on counterparty credit exposure for new deals with complex structures correlatedness, including the explain and challenge of calculations by 1st line of defense.
• Contribute to firm-wide projects around key counterparty credit exposure metrics & technical enhancements
• Manage responses to bespoke client requests on the firm’s initial margin methodologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Undergraduate degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a discipline such as Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Engineering, Finance and/or Economics
• Knowledge of risk management including scenario analysis and stress testing. Knowledge of NCMR, SIMM, VaR or other margin methodologies.
• Good understanding of quantitative concepts relating to credit exposure, risk sensitivity and stress testing
• Demonstrated interest in and knowledge of global financial markets and strong intuition in its impact to our business
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; inquisitive nature and comfortable in challenging current practices
• Strong communication skill and interpersonal skills to be leveraged in executive governance and senior management forums
• Must be able to work under pressure and deliver on multiple tight, time sensitive timelines
• Innovative and creative thinking. Ability to improve current processes and achieve efficiencies
• Prior experience with coding and data visualization tools such as Python, Alteryx, SQL & Tableau

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Credit, Trading or Trading middle office functions. Master’s degree, CFA, CQF or FRM designations are preferred.
• Sufficient product knowledge and quantitative skills with broad range of asset classes and investment strategies, a plus