Credit Risk Middle Office - Analyst

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Christchurch; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking an Analyst in the Credit Risk Middle Office in the United Kingdom.

You will onboard new and existing asset management clients, assess risk profiles, and support credit lines to enable client activity, particularly for derivatives trading and custody services. You will collaborate with lines of business to ensure client objectives align with risk frameworks, perform annual reviews, and contribute to process improvements and stronger controls by leveraging emerging

Qualifications

• Entry level or experience in reporting, financial analytics, or a related role.
• Desire to develop expertise in the investments universe and risk management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office.
• Adaptability and learning mindset, including eagerness to learn new technologies.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and a focus on data quality.
• Critical thinking and ability to work independently to drive issues to resolution.
• Ability to prioritise work and deliver continuous process improvements.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across teams, stakeholders, and locations.

Responsibilities

• Analyse documentation (prospectuses, factsheets and financial accounts) to understand fund and client investment strategies, structure, and restrictions
• Identify and elevate potential risk concerns, including indicators of alternative investment strategies, to support appropriate limit and documentation decisions
• Investigate and complete client write-ups to support approval as eligible counterparties
• Collaborate with lines of business to align client objectives with our risk framework and operating model
• Create negotiation requests for legal documentation that facilitates trading activity
• Perform annual reviews to ensure credit limits and risk ratings reflect the latest available financial information
• Improve processes and controls to strengthen operational efficiency, including through responsible use of emerging technologies
• Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Job description

As an Analyst within the Credit Risk Middle Office team, you will help to onboard new and existing asset management clients by assessing risk profiles and supporting the credit lines that enable our client activity. You will partner with lines of business to align client needs with our risk framework, supporting primarily derivatives trading and custody services. You will also contribute to process enhancements and stronger controls by identifying opportunities to improve how we work.,

• Analyse documentation (prospectuses, factsheets and financial accounts) to understand fund and client investment strategies, structure, and restrictions
• Identify and elevate potential risk concerns, including indicators of alternative investment strategies, to support appropriate limit and documentation decisions
• Investigate and complete client write-ups to support approval as eligible counterparties
• Collaborate with lines of business to align client objectives with our risk framework and operating model
• Create negotiation requests for legal documentation that facilitates trading activity
• Perform annual reviews to ensure credit limits and risk ratings reflect the latest available financial information
• Improve processes and controls to strengthen operational efficiency, including through responsible use of emerging technologies
• Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
• Entry level or experience in reporting, financial analytics, or a related role
• Desire to develop expertise in the investments universe and risk management
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office
• Adaptability and learning mindset, including eagerness to learn new technologies
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and a focus on data quality
• Critical thinking and ability to work independently to drive issues to resolution
• Ability to prioritise work and deliver continuous process improvements
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across teams, stakeholders, and locations

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related discipline
• Experience in risk management or another control function
• Experience with Tableau, Alteryx, and Python
• J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives., Risk Management helps the firm understand, manage and anticipate risks in a constantly changing environment. The work covers areas such as evaluating country-specific risk, understanding regulatory changes and determining credit worthiness. Risk Management provides independent oversight and maintains an effective control environment.