Business Lending Risk Analytics - Senior Associate

Testing Site - JPMC; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Strategic Analytics Associate in Business Banking Risk to generate data-driven insights that shape strategy and monitor performance across the portfolio. You will transform complex datasets into recommendations and design tests balancing growth with credit risk.

This role offers high visibility, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to influence outcomes from acquisition through portfolio management, collections, and recoveries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with several years in risk or quantitative field.
• Master's degree preferred with multiple years of experience.
• Background in statistics/econometrics or related quantitative discipline.
• Proficiency with SAS/SAS Enterprise Miner or similar analytics tools.
• Ability to query large data sets and translate into actionable insights.
• Strong risk analytics knowledge and problem‑solving ability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform analytical reviews of borrowers and risk/profit performance across products.
• Generate data-driven strategic recommendations to balance growth and risk.
• Develop and maintain periodic reports on key metrics and trends.
• Understand operating processes like underwriting, portfolio management, and collections.
• Conduct pre/post-implementation testing to validate strategic changes.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and support regulatory inquiries.

Skills

Statistics background

Advanced data analysis

Data querying

Risk analytics

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

SAS

SAS Enterprise Miner

Decision tree software

Job description

Bring your expertise to JPMorgan Chase. As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo, and striving to be best-in-class.

As a Strategic Analytics Associate in Business Banking Risk, you will generate data-driven insights and recommendations that inform strategy development, implementation, and performance monitoring across the Business Banking portfolio. You'll transform complex datasets into actionable management information, design and test strategies that balance growth and credit risk, and maintain robust controls and documentation to ensure an audit-ready environment. This opportunity offers high visibility, cross-functional collaboration, and the chance to influence outcomes across the credit lifecycle-from acquisition and underwriting through portfolio management, collections, and recoveries.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct thoughtful analysis of borrowers, their demographics, and risk/profit performance with the firm’s products.
• Generate strategic recommendations for strategy development based on quantitative analytics and business intuition. Strategies are optimized to maximize profitability while minimizing risk.
• Develop and maintain periodic reporting and analytics on key metrics to provide management with emerging trends including (but not limited to) volumes, modification/settlement rates and recovery rates of delinquent accounts.
• Acquire an understanding of the operational processes (i.e. manual underwriting, portfolio management, collections, etc.) which will aid in understanding past due account collection performance drivers.
• Conduct pre-implementation and post-implementation testing & analysis to ensure strategic changes produce expected impacts.
• Contribute to the team’s audit-ready state by keeping organized documentation, following established control processes, and developing draft responses to internal audit and regulatory questions.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of professional experience related to risk management or other quantitative field of work
• Master's degree with 3+ years of professional experience related to risk management or other quantitative field of work
• Background in statistics, econometric, or other quantitative field
• Advanced understanding of SAS, SAS Enterprise Miner, or other decision tree software
• Ability to query large amounts of data and transform the raw data into actionable management information
• Familiarity with risk analytic techniques and strong problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Master's degree
• Intellectually curious and driven to identify meaningful insights using a data guided approach
• Strong knowledge of debt collection regulations and practices
• Experience delivering recommendations to management