Equities Market Risk - Associate

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is seeking an Associate in Equities Market Risk to work with trading businesses, challenge risk exposures, and help shape risk-based decisions across equity products.

You will perform scenario analyses, build analytics, and contribute to risk management tooling using automation and AI technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative skills with ability to model and interpret risk.
• Ability to code and build repeatable analysis workflows.
• Experience with data science and AI tooling for risk analytics.
• Knowledge of market risk concepts and equities products.
• Proven ability to challenge trading activity while maintaining controls.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent oversight of market risk across equity trading activities.
• Monitor losses from equity price moves, volatility, correlations.
• Translate risk analysis into clear, actionable insights for decision-making.
• Partner with trading desks while maintaining strong controls.
• Lead scenario analyses and stress testing for shocks.
• Assess tail-risk and trends to ensure risk limits are respected.
• Contribute to risk framework design, analytics, reporting.
• Build risk tools using automation, ML, data science.
• Demonstrated interest in markets and risk management.
• Identify process improvements and drive better practices.
• Manage priorities and deliver high-quality results.
• Use coding tools for analysis and automation.
• Experience with large language model-based workflows.
• Knowledge of market risk and equities products.

Skills

Quantitative skills

Coding for analysis

Data science & AI tooling

Market risk knowledge

Independent risk oversight

Job description

Keen to have a front-row seat to global equity markets, risk and trading activity? As an Associate in Equities Market Risk, you'll work alongside trading businesses to understand, challenge, and manage market risks across a wide range of equity products. You'll develop deep market expertise, build advanced analytical skills, and help shape the decisions that influence risk-taking across one of the world's leading financial institutions. This is a unique opportunity to combine financial markets, quantitative analysis, data, and technology. Sitting close to trading activity while maintaining independent oversight, you'll play a key role in ensuring risks are understood, controlled, and effectively communicated. Being part of the Equities Market Risk team, you will help identify, assess, and challenge market risks across a broad range of equity products. Working closely with trading businesses, you will provide independent risk oversight, deliver risk insights to stakeholders, and contribute to risk-based decision making. You will participate in scenario analysis, stress testing, and risk reporting while helping enhance risk management tools, analytics, and processes. This role offers the opportunity to develop expertise in financial markets, quantitative risk analysis, and emerging technologies that support the evolution of risk management.,

• Provide independent oversight of market risk across equity trading activities.
• Monitor and assess potential losses arising from movements in equity prices, volatility, correlation, and other market risk factors.
• Transform complex risk analysis into clear, actionable insights that support business and senior management decision-making.
• Partner closely with trading desks, providing constructive challenge while maintaining a strong control framework.
• Lead scenario analysis and stress testing to evaluate the impact of market shocks and identify potential vulnerabilities.
• Assess tail-risk exposures and emerging market trends to help ensure trading activities remain within approved risk appetite and limits.
• Contribute to the design and enhancement of risk management frameworks, analytics, and reporting.
• Build and improve next-generation risk tools using automation, machine learning, data science, and AI technologies.
  Strong quantitative skills with confidence working analytically with numbers, models, and complex problems.
• Demonstrated interest in financial markets and risk management, with a willingness to learn market risk concepts and traded products.
• Ability to identify process improvements and contribute ideas to enhance existing practices.
• Ability to manage priorities independently and deliver high-quality results., Ability to use coding tools for analysis and automation, including working with datasets, building repeatable workflows or tools, and producing clear, auditable outputs.
• Experience building or meaningfully experimenting with large language model-based solutions, including agentic workflows, with the ability to evaluate outputs critically and apply appropriate controls and judgment.
• Knowledge of Market Risk and /or Equities products
  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., J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.