Corporate Structuring - Accounting Structuring – Vice President

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Corporate Derivatives Accounting Structuring professional (VP level) in New York. Your role involves supporting the Corporate Structuring team in developing corporate derivative transactions, requiring strong analytical and quantitative skills.

The ideal candidate will have 4-5 years of relevant experience, proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other applications, and must hold an undergraduate degree in Accounting with an active CPA license. Join a collaborative environment with a focus on risk management and client solutions.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of relevant experience in corporate structuring or finance roles.
• Experience with financial instruments transactions accounting.
• Excellent analytical, quantitative, and interpretative skills.

Responsibilities

• Support Corporate Structuring and CDM in transactions.
• Prepare customized pitch books for client meetings.
• Assist with updates regarding hedging transactions.
• Develop regression/analytical models for solutions.
• Present hedging solutions for corporate clients.

Skills

Analytical skills

Quantitative skills

Flexibility

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Ability to handle pressure

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Education

Undergraduate degree in Accounting

Active CPA license

Job description

The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale lending, markets, and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments, and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk, and extend liquidity in markets around the world. Clients turn to our industry-leading Markets, Sales, and Research team to offer unique market insights on sectors and companies, and actionable ideas using research to make well-informed investment decisions. JPMorgan teams have a deep understanding of solutions across various asset classes and help clients structure solutions that manage risk, enhance yield, and optimize interest expense/balance sheet profile.

As a Corporate Derivatives Accounting Structuring professional (VP level) within JPMorgan’s Global Corporate Structuring team, your primary responsibility will be to support senior members of the Corporate Structuring team and Corporate Derivatives Marketing (CDM) professionals develop and originate corporate derivative transactions. This role requires practical knowledge of the application of U.S. GAAP hedge accounting guidance to transactions involving interest rate, foreign exchange and commodity price risk as well as application of foreign currency and financing-related accounting guidance. Qualified candidates also should have a strong understanding of regression and other quantitative analysis. Knowledge of IFRS is a plus given the global scope of the Corporate Structuring platform. This role requires close collaboration with the CDM team to deliver tailored solutions to the firm’s corporate clients. Qualified candidates ideally should have at least 4 years of Big 4 accounting firm experience focused on financial instruments in a client-facing role and/or similar experience supporting corporate derivatives businesses at bulge bracket banks.

Job Responsibilities

• Support Corporate Structuring and CDM professions in the origination, ongoing coverage, and execution of interest rate, foreign exchange, and other hedging transactions.
• Prepare customized pitch books and various analyses for client meetings.
• Assist with client updates, internal and external calls related to both new and existing hedging transactions as well as hedge accounting and other relevant accounting developments.
• Develop and tailor regression / analytical models to assist with pitching of solutions that would be subject to long haul hedge accounting.
• Identify and present interest rate, foreign exchange and commodity hedging solutions for the firm’s corporate clients.
• Partner with banking, trading, credit, structuring, and other internal partners around prosecuting potential transactions.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• A strong interest in global financial markets is essential, as are analytical and quantitative skills, flexibility, teamwork, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to handle pressure and enjoy a collaborative environment.
• Minimum 4–5 years of relevant experience in global corporate structuring, corporate restructuring, or closely related corporate finance/advisory roles.
• Experience evaluating economics of and accounting for financial instruments transactions.
• Excellent analytical, quantitative, and interpretative skills.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative work environment.
• Being adaptable, flexible, and resilient.
• Skilled at managing multiple tasks concurrently and highly organized.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word applications.
• A high degree of ethics and integrity.
• Undergraduate degree in Accounting and active CPA license