Prime Trade Lifecycle Associate

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in Bournemouth seeks a Prime Trade Lifecycle Associate to manage the settlement of trades for Hedge fund clients. Responsibilities include resolving failing trades, collaborating with brokers and internal teams, and ensuring efficient trade settlement. Ideal candidates possess a strong operational risk management background, problem-solving skills, and the ability to analyze data trends. This role offers the opportunity to drive process improvements and support strategic automation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Subject matter expert in a product or workflow.
• Ability to articulate complex concepts simply.
• Disciplined in operational risk management.
• Experience working with large data sets.
• Ability to bring groups together to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure trades are settled accurately and efficiently.
• Manage proactively failing settlements to minimize risk.
• Partner with brokers and internal teams to solve issues.
• Build trusting relationships through high-quality service.
• Respond to daily queries and lead action-driven meetings.
• Use analytics to influence client and broker behavior.

Skills

Operational risk management

Data analytics

Problem-solving collaboration

Communication

Job description

As a Prime Trade Lifecycle Associate within the Trade Settlements Team, you will be responsible for reviewing and resolving failing trades predominately for our Hedge fund clients in Europe. In this role, you will have regular collaboration with various internal lines of business, clients and brokers, and you will also be ensuring stringent controls are applied to the daily inventory management activities and driving both process improvements in the end to end operating model as well as supporting the implementation of a strategic development and automation program.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures trades are settled in an accurate, timely and efficient manner
• Manages proactively failing settlements to minimize risk and penalty chargesuncio
• Partners with brokers and internal teams to proactively problem solve failing trades
• Builds trusting, credible broker, agent and client relationships through responsive, high quality client service
• Responds to daily queries, and chairs action driven meetings
• Monitors themes using our data analytics platform and use a data driven approach to influencing client and broker behaviour
• Are you a individual who likes problem solving and working in collaboration with others? then you have found the right team!
• The ability to act and communicate with humility, empathy and kindness

Qualifications

• Proven track record of being a subject matter expert (any product or workflow) in a previous role
• Proven ability to articulate complex concepts in a simple, digestible way to varied audiences
• A very disciplined attitude to operational risk management
• The ability to work with large data sets to pull trends and provide meaningful feedback to influence client and broker behaviour
• The ability to bring multiple groups together to solve a problem and hold people accountable for their actions

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Familiarity with the settlement and mechanics or the Prime Brokerage product
• Ability to independently innovate and process re-engineer when opportunities present themselves
• A naturally curious thinker with a hunger to learn and teach others
• An optimistic approach to problem solving. Views problems as opportunities and not roadblocks

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.