JPMorgan Global Equities – Positioning Intelligence Associate Vice President 

United Kingdom, England, London 

950126185

As Associate or Vice President at Positioning Intelligence team you will publish regular reports 1-2 times/week as well as tactical and thematic updates around key market developments. You will analyse a wide range of positioning-related metrics covering topics such as sector, region, and factor tilts, leverage, flows, strategy differences, performance, alpha, and crowding. Increasingly, your work is becoming more cross-investor and cross-asset in nature. In addition, you will need to communicate the team’s findings with clients and be able to develop relationships with external clients and internal colleagues.

Job responsibilities

• Track key market moves and various positioning metrics to help the team provide insights to clients and investors
• Work with the existing Positioning Intelligence team to write regular global Positioning content, assessing our own Prime positioning data sets, plus positioning / flows across our broader equities business, and via third party sources
• Communicate effectively with external clients and internal colleagues: discuss team’s recent notes and how findings tie into market trends, learn the tendencies and desires of clients / colleagues, develop means to strengthen client relationships
• Work closely with quant research and technology to ensure data sets are well maintained
• Automate and help build scale to enhance our ability to respond to increasing client demands
• Be open to innovation within this space, challenging assumptions and finding new ways to analyze the data

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Very high level of intellectual curiosity, strong analytical skills, and ability to work independently
• Persistent work ethic and attention to detail
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated interest in markets (equity, rates, credit, commodities) and data analytics.
• Strong technical and mathematical skills, coding is a plus (e.g. python, VBA, SQL, etc.)
• Proven desire to contribute to growing our Global Equities and Prime franchise
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Research, sales and trading, or buy side experience in equities, rates, or credit is a plus