JP Morgan Chase - CTC Risk/Market Risk Role

CTC seeks to hire a risk professional to join its Market Risk function. The position offers the opportunity to participate in all risk related matters (including monitoring and forecasting). Working in Risk Management will give the successful candidate an opportunity to work alongside professionals across all levels and regions with commensurate exposure to senior portfolio managers in an area of the Firm that covers the spectrum of asset classes and financial products. It is an ideal location in the Firm to obtain broad perspective of Firmwide risk management decisions. The position also offers opportunities for significant visibility to senior management.

Education/Qualifications :

An excellent academic record and an undergraduate degree are required. Advanced degree in finance or a related quantitative field; MBA from a top tier school or professional qualification in (CFA/Accountancy) is desirable.

Candidate requirements :

- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, as well as a high level of self-initiative required, including an ability to balance and execute multiple projects at once and deliver results under tight time constraints

- Understanding of the governance and controls surrounding risk monitoring including, VaR, stress testing, various return measures and experience with stress construction

- Understanding of fixed income/securitization markets and FX (Bonds, swaps, MBS, FX Fwds, FX swaps etc)

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Demonstrated ability to work effectively and independently across different businesses and functional areas

- Ability to work under pressure

- Strong critical thinking skills, with thorough attention to detail

- Strong technical skills in Excel/Access/VBA/Bloomberg

Specific responsibilities :

- Daily reporting and monitoring of market risk positions - with the aim to identify material risk exposures and concentrations. Conduct ad hoc risk analysis, develop improvements of daily risk reports, and VaR and Stress analysis tools

- Monitor risk exposures, understand the factors that drive the risk and P&L on the books, follow market movement/activities affecting positions, highlight and discuss risk changes and top risks

- Keep track of market developments/moves vis-a-vis business risks

- Improve risk transparency, methodologies and reports by conducting deep-dives on various basis risks, curve risks, specific structure risks etc

- Represent Market risk in various related initiatives and ensure that the projects are delivered in a timely manner.

Use the below link to submit application on JPMC job portal.

https://jpmc.fa.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/210182104/?utm_medium=jobshare