Market Risk - Associate

An exciting opportunity to join the APAC Rates Market Risk team that is responsible for market risk management of Japan Rates Trading business as well as legal entity risks in local Japan entities. Come work with our industry experts to identify, assess and manage risk for our global and local businesses.

Job Summary:

As an Associate in the team, you will work closely with the trading desk to perform portfolio analysis, provide risk advisory to facilitate risk/return decisions as well as work with stakeholders globally and locally to ensure that market risk profile is transparent to senior management, Board of Directors and regulators. This is an exciting opportunity to join the APAC Rates Market Risk team that is responsible for market risk management of Japan Rates Trading business as well as legal entity risks in local Japan entities. Come work with our industry experts to identify, assess and manage risk for our global and local businesses. The team is also responsible for risk oversight and control of the local legal entities and manage the interface and relationship of the local regulators around Market Risks

We are a collaborative team who want your perspective to help us innovate the next wave of risk management solutions.

Job responsibilities:

• Build an enhanced risk monitoring framework to effectively monitor and manage the expanding trading business footprint.
• Innovate ways to look for threats and weaknesses in the risk profile. Pro-actively bring these to the attention of the trading business and the Market Risk management team.
• 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.
• Perform regular risk and scenario analysis into various risk themes, and communicate findings.
• Review and approve large/complex transactions, challenging the trading business to ensure appropriate constraints/controls in place.
• Develop an understanding of various products traded and their key risks.
• Understanding the Legal Entity requirements around Market Risk in Japan.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Excellent academic background with a minimum Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Analytical and logical thinker with the ability to understand quantitative concepts relating to risk sensitivity, P&L explain, VaR and stress scenario results
• A team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with a wide variety of teams including Trading and control groups.
• Deep sense of accountability and able to work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to innovate, think out of the box and make clear recommendations.
• Fluency in English and Japanese with excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint). Experience in Python or similar coding is advantageous
• Strong interest in an intellectually stimulating career within the Finance Industry

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.
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